Harrow Record 2019-20

HARROW RECORD 2019–20

Reports from 2019–20 plus news and views from the Hill

02 News 10 Academic 26 Societies 30 The Arts 66 Leadership and Service 78 Sport 95 Heritage 104 Listings 112 Foundation Family 132 Last Word

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FROM THE HEAD MASTER The overarching feature of the 2019/20 academic year will, of course, be the COVID-19 pandemic. The closure of the School for the whole of the Summer term left the Hill strangely subdued, but it sprang vividly to life online and it was admirable to see how swiftly both boys and beaks adapted to new ways of learning and teaching, and how all staff stepped up to ensure a continued excellent academic and pastoral experience for all the boys.

As there was no easing in the rigour and scale of lessons experienced by the boys, there was equally no let-up in the range of society meetings, lectures, concerts and exhibitions on offer, many of which you can read about in the following pages.

It was also a matter of pride to watch the remarkable efforts made by the whole School community to support those whose lives were made more difficult by the pandemic, and this issue of the Harrow Record describes the many ways in which the School offered help to those who needed it – from making visors in the D&T Department to providing learning opportunities for looked-after children and distributing food to those in need.

But the pandemic was not the only story of the year. During the Autumn and Spring terms, we saw exciting productions in the Ryan Theatre, outstanding musical events and inspiring exhibitions of art and photography. Although the annual cricket match against Eton at Lord’s had to be cancelled for only the fifth time since 1805, there were still many notable performances on the sports fields, with the swimming, judo, soccer and badminton teams having particularly successful seasons.

Boys strove exceptionally hard at their academic work throughout the year and took full advantage of the extraordinary range of super-curricular opportunities offered to them. This hard work led to the outstanding grades boys achieved at GCSE and A level, despite the difficulties they faced during the preceding months.

It has been one of the most singular years in Harrow’s history, but the exceptional way in which Harrovians rose to its challenges has been a revelation and source of very great pride.

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The Harrow Development Trust (HDT) works with Old Harrovians, parents and friends of Harrow School to raise funds for the development of the School’s facilities and for scholarships and bursaries. This icon, which features throughout this issue, indicates an activity that the Harrow Development Trust and its benefactors have supported in some way.

HDT was closely involved with the distribution of PPE and grants to organisations in need of support.

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SUPPORTING THE COMMUNITY DURING THE CORONAVIRUS PANDEMIC

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he School’s response in the first months of the coronavirus crisis focused on providing educational support for young people. We worked closely with the London Borough of Harrow and with other LEAs both in and outside London to provide a bespoke learning resource for looked-after children during the Summer term. Harrow beaks ran live, subject-specific tutorial sessions and, in partnership with Harrow Carers and Harrow Virtual School, were involved with a one-to-one learning programme of tuition for children in care and young carers, meeting a significant need for a group of young people whose challenges to learning will have been exacerbated by the closure of schools.

We also worked with BT to enable six months’ free wifi access for 50 families where the children needed the internet to access schoolwork, and we shared our reading lists, lectures and parts of our Super-Curriculum with our partner schools.

Harrow also did its best to ensure that all possible support for Northwick Park Hospital was co-ordinated and available.

Hundreds of protective visors were made by

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Staff arranged local food collections

staff in Design & Technology – these went to local GPs, Harrow Carers, St Luke’s Hospice, St Joseph’s Care Home and the Cygnet Hospital – and the School provided many pieces of PPE locally: tens of thousands of face masks and a large volume of hand sanitiser, goggles, gloves, protective suits and aprons were delivered.

All available PPE on the School site was passed on and generous Harrow parents sent in more equipment to support local services, including 6,500 surgical gowns for Northwick Park. We donated a significant volume of gloves, cleaning material and hand sanitiser to allow a local partner primary school to open for Reception, Year 1 and Year 6. We printed hundreds of flyers for Harrow Carers and our fleet of minibuses were offered to the local council, NHS, carers and charities for unlimited use.

The School also ensured that food and other supplies were delivered to local charities for distribution among those most in need in the area, mostly via Harrow Carers. Separately, we set up a food bank distribution centre at the Shepherd Churchill Hall. School funds were made available to feed 18 families for seven days with essential supplies; this provision was in

place for at least 20 weeks. The food bank was staffed by volunteer members of the Harrow School Catering team during the peak of the pandemic. We also arranged for food distribution to two other food bank hubs in the local area, using our suppliers and with the same discounts that we receive.

We developed significant partnerships with Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) and Harrow Carers. During the summer holidays, we opened the School site to local charities working with young people and were able to provide important support to hundreds of young people. This included full funding for all projects, the use of School facilities, support from School staff, and hundreds of packed lunches. The scheme and funding were administered through YHF. In addition, Harrow Athletics Club used the running track for training sessions for their junior athletes.

Harrow has collected and distributed around £75,000 from donations to Long Ducker, Spirit of Speech Day and the COVID-19 Response Fund. Long Ducker 2020 and the Long Ducker Bike Ride will be raising money for organisations at the forefront of the response to the crisis.

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The School provided food and supplies for local charities to distribute

Funding for the renovation of the rackets court was raised by the HDT.

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NEW PRENN HUE WILLIAMS RACKETS COURT

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hanks to a fundraising campaign supported by two OH rackets players, Charles Hue Williams (Bradbys 1956²) and John Prenn (The Head Master’s 1966³), the Harrow Development Trust were able to raise over £800,000 from a number of generous OH and parent supporters towards a significant renovation of the original 1865 rackets court. The new court has been renamed the Prenn Hue Williams Court after these two generous supporters, who were not only master players in their day, but have been faithful supporters of the game for many years.

Harrow was the first school to play rackets. The flat ground and high wall in Bill Yard outside Old Schools offered a perfect location to play. It was also the first school to build a covered court for the game, largely thanks to the generosity of Sir William Hart-Dyke (The Grove 1851³), Harrow’s first rackets champion. Harrow has also won more titles at the Public Schools Rackets’ Competition at Queen’s Club than any other school in recent decades.

The changing rooms were extended and refurbished

A complete renovation of the old rackets court was completed in spring 2020 and included the rebuilding of the court to competition-level dimensions suitable for inter-school tournaments. The lobby was

redesigned with an attractive exhibition space, and the shared rackets and fives changing rooms were extended, making them suitable for hosting tournaments.

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EXAMINATION RESULTS AND UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS E xamination results in 2020 built upon the record GCSE outcomes of 2019 and, for the third consecutive year, the percentage of grade 9s was well over 40% of entries, with around three-quarters of entries achieving grades 9–8. Fourteen boys achieved ten or more grade 9s, with 30 boys acquiring nine or more grade 9s, which is a very impressive achievement.

At A level, results also built upon our previous successes, which have seen over

two-thirds of boys achieving A*–A. Seven boys acquired five or more A* grades at A level and 44 boys gained three or more A* grades.

All boys holding places at Oxbridge met the terms of their offer. Fifteen per cent of our Upper Sixth leavers have taken up places at North American universities including five of the eight Ivy League Schools, with two boys going to Harvard and three to Columbia. Boys are also

attending Stanford and Duke, with three boys going to Chicago.

Harrovians will be attending seven of the world’s top ten universities next year, and over a hundred Harrovians have taken up places at Russell Group universities. More than a fifth of Harrovians have gone to one of the QS world top 10 universities and nearly a third of Harrovians to one of the QS world top 20 universities including UCL, Imperial and the University of Pennsylvania.

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n 2019, Harrow School partnered with Pearson to launch a new online school, called Harrow School Online. Founded on the traditions and academic excellence of Harrow, the co-educational online school started welcoming applications from UK and international pupils around the world who wished to start their sixth-form education in September 2020.

Harrow School Online is for pupils aged 16 and over, who have strong English skills and are looking for a prestigious, high-quality British education that suits their lifestyles. Focusing initially on STEM subjects (Chemistry, Physics, Mathematics, Further Mathematics) and Economics, the school helps to prepare pupils for Pearson Edexcel International A level examinations, higher education and the employment opportunities of the future.

Pupils take part in one-to-one academic tutorials, live online lessons with a teacher and other pupils, self-study lessons and regular coaching sessions that provide them with personalised support and feedback.

As well as the focus on academic excellence, the school mirrors Harrow’s ethos as much as possible through a virtual house system, the opportunity to participate in co-curricular activities (such as a chess club and a student newspaper) and the chance to attend a summer course at Harrow. Harrow School Online’s Principal is Heather Rhodes, who was Head of English as an Additional Language at Harrow for a number of years and the Academic Principal at Harrow School Short Courses.

NEW APPOINTMENT DIRECTOR OF PASTORAL CARE

Dr Stephen Harrison was appointed to the new post of Director of Pastoral Care.

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tephen graduated from The Queen’s University of Belfast with a first in Pure and Applied Mathematics and a PhD in Theoretical Physics. He continued to work in academic research before joining the defence industry and then the Mathematics Department at Harrow. Stephen was House Master of The Head Master’s from 2012 to 2019 and, before that, was Assistant House Master of The Park. As Director of Pastoral Care, he is responsible for all aspects of boarding life in the School, including the recruitment, training and line management of House Masters. He is a Deputy Designated Safeguarding Lead and member of the Pastoral Support Committee. He also works closely with the Bursar to assess and co-ordinate the maintenance and upgrading of the Houses.

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VALETE SIMON HALLIDAY

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imon Halliday (SJH) had an unusual start at Harrow in 1981, because he had two interviews with two different Head Masters.

He arrived from Liverpool University, where he had completed a Geography degree and a PGCE. His first interview with Head Master Michael Hoban had an unpromising start: “I ought to tell you, Simon, that this post has already been filled,” but he went on, “but we’re looking into the possibility of getting two Geography beaks. The interview went well, and a few weeks later he met with incoming Head Master Ian Beer.

SJH was a keen squash, cricket, football and rugby player and, in his early career, he coached a rugby team, a soccer team and a cricket team, and helped out with squash.

Although he arrived at Harrow with a background in physical geography, he was soon asked to teach human geography at A level and this became his passion.

He typically took case studies from South America and Suffolk, two areas he knows well. He had a term’s sabbatical to Quito in Ecudor where he studied the development

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Simon with Cricket Professional Stephen Jones

of shanty towns. He was keen on giving boys the full complement of prep, which he always insisted should be handed in on time, no matter how much marking it brought him. But despite his rigorous demands in terms of learning and good behaviour, he prided himself on his rapport with the boys he taught.

Squash became a significant part of his life soon after he joined the School. He started helping Malcom Bruce-Lockhart in 1981 and took over as Master-in-Charge in 1983 – and ran it for 37 years. He played local league squash for the Wembley and Sudbury Club and took generations of Harrovians to play for the club. It was in the late 1980s that he started to write the squash reports in The Harrovian for which he became renowned, transforming the dull sports report into one of the most popular sections of the School paper.

Under SJH’s guidance, squash at Harrow became very successful, with teams reaching the national finals of the schools’ competition on numerous occasions, winning the public schools’ competition at Roehampton four times, and the only school never to be relegated from division one of the competition. Outside teaching, however, cricket was his passion and main focus of his attention, and he became Master-in-Charge of Cricket in 1997.

One of the defining moments of his career at the School was in 2000 when

Harrow won at Lord’s for the first time in 25 years. Another was in 2005, victory in the 200th anniversary of the Lord’s match with Eton, after which Harrow went on to win another three Lord’s matches in succession as well as achieve a remarkable unbeaten run against all opposition for the three years between 2005 to 2007. His favourite match was in 2012, what SJH now calls “Whitrow’s match”. The School was chasing 275 and was 130 for six, when Hector Whitrow (Druries 20073) came in at number seven and smashed 80, giving Harrow victory in the last over.

In 2004, SJH took a cricket tour to Sri Lanka where he had the responsibility of leading the tour party to safety when the squad was caught up in the tsunami that killed over 30,000 people and made over one and a half million people homeless.

The School raised funds to support the people of Galle and to help rebuild a school there. Ten years later, in 2014, he took a cricket team back to Sri Lanka, where they received an emotional welcome at the school Harrow had helped rebuild. 2014 was also the year SJH stepped down as Master-in-Charge of Cricket after a fantastic final season and another victory at Lord’s.

In the immediate future, SJH intends to read, bird watch and eat a few pub lunches near his home in Suffolk.

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of the Harrow School Angling, Lawn Tennis and Golf Clubs. The extensive improvements to the facilities for rackets and fives were completed, with the rackets courts upgraded to world-class standard.

On the wider estate, the installation of new and improved signage has been completed. – Ralph Arundell, Director of Operations

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longside a busy schedule of reactive repairs, maintenance and works to the residential buildings, numerous projects were completed on some academic departments and a number of the Houses, most significantly work on extensions to The Grove and Druries. A new club house was created for use by boys and members

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The Harrow Development Trust has supported many of the renovations and improvements across the estate.

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External repairs and repainting; repairs and improvements to the House tennis court and multi-use games area, including new fencing and surfaces; redecoration of Bill Hall and refurbishment of the library.

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External repairs and repainting.

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RUNNING TRACK

Respraying of the track surface and re-marking of all the lines.

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Transformation of the Grounds shed into a club house for use by boys and members of the Harrow School Angling, Lawn Tennis and Golf Clubs.

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Refurbishment of the House library, Upper and Lower Sixth common rooms and changer, including the creation of a gym.

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Completion of the new extension, with the Assistant House Master’s Flat and the rear garden, including the area outside the Hill Shop.

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Preparation of the ground surface for the proposed new woodland planting scheme following removal of scrub vegetation.

RACKETS AND FIVES COURTS

Complete refurbishment of the original rackets court, including improvements to the rackets and fives changing area and new and run-off areas to all fives courts.

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LYON’S

Restoration of the pond in Lyon’s field.

NEW SIGNAGE

Installation of new signs across the School estate.

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A CURRICULUM FOR SUCCESS A year ago, I wrote about our no assumptions curriculum review and sought to articulate the steps that we were planning to take in the year ahead to make sure that all Harrovians would leave the School being real-world ready. Writing last summer, it was impossible to have predicted just how dramatically different the world would look, which is testament to how important it is for our curriculum to prepare boys for a social, cultural, political and economic landscape that can shift dramatically with remarkable rapidity.

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f the world has changed so much in 12 months, how can we prepare boys for life beyond Harrow? How can we equip boys to take up jobs that have not yet been invented? The 2020 Emerging Jobs Report stated that artificial intelligence specialist, data protection officer and robotics

engineer are the UK’s top-three emerging jobs. Who knows what these will be in 2030? What we do know, however, is that the Harrow School curriculum needs to equip boys to thrive amid the challenges that they will face and the opportunities that they will be afforded.

Consequently, we have spent the last 18 months conducting a curriculum review.

The willingness of countless individuals has been heart-warming to witness; OHs, past and present parents, and many others have given of their time and expertise to answer questions, host visits to their companies and organisations, and share the wisdom that they have accrued from their own experiences. We have spent time with educational theorists, HR directors and CEOs. We have listened to the insights of executives from FTSE 100 companies, tech start-ups and even heads of state.

There were some fascinating findings.

They include the ongoing importance of qualifications as a passport to the next stage of education or work. We think that GCSEs and A levels are the qualification gold standard and provide the depth that

boys require. Many schools are moving away from nationally accredited qualifications and replacing them with their own internal courses. Time and again, from the world’s biggest employers as well as from start-ups and entrepreneurs, the value of impressive, externally validated and recognisable exam results was highlighted as a key metric for shortlisting and appointing staff. Harrovians, therefore, will continue to take ten GCSEs and start their Sixth Form studies with four A levels.

But these are clearly not enough in themselves to prepare boys for further education and employment. Recruiters want much more, of course. The curriculum review highlighted the importance of three key literacies: ■ cognitive literacy: critical thinking; problem-solving; creativity and innovation; communication and presentation skills; ■ digital literacy: Microsoft Office; coding; data analysis and interpretation; and ■ social literacy: leadership; responsibility; democracy and society; ethics; values and behaviours.

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Over the year ahead, we intend to map out these literacies across the curriculum, which includes both the Super-Curriculum and co-curriculum, as well as the other aspects of Harrow life. While every university and every sector of employment wants either slightly or very different things from their students and employees, we need to make sure that boys have the autonomy to choose the path that suits their interests, expertise and aspirations.

Irrespective of the A levels that they study and the activities and courses that they pursue while on the Hill, however, they must each leave the School with these key literacies.

Consequently, we are, for example, transforming our Super-Curriculum and creating the Harrow Diploma, where boys will accrue credits throughout their time at School through taking Electives, completing work experience and engaging with lectures and societies, as well as reading and taking accredited courses. Boys need to appreciate that, while their qualifications are neatly packaged into discrete subjects and specifications, the world’s problems and challenges are much messier and more inter-connected. We will be running interdisciplinary courses on topics such as the relationship between ethics and algorithms, and on the economics of climate change. There will also be problem-

solving courses on subjects such as knife crime and plastic waste pollution. Boys need experience of working in diverse and multidisciplinary teams where leadership is fluid and where innovation, agility and resilience are key.

The depth and breadth of the Harrow curriculum prepares boys for global university destinations. This is extremely important as over one third of this year’s Upper Sixth will be applying to US universities, while at the same time applying to universities in the UK. Each year more and more boys look to American

universities and we send many boys to the world’s most competitive institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, such as Harvard, Stanford, Oxbridge, Yale, Imperial and Chicago, as well as many other institutions around the world.

Over the months ahead, we will be implementing these findings into practical changes to our curriculum that will benefit every boy who studies at Harrow, so that we can fulfil our purpose of preparing boys for a life of learning, leadership, service and personal fulfilment.

– Michael Gray, Director of Studies

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any boys used the Rayleigh Observatory to collect data for their observing projects, which involve picking celestial objects, imaging them with a variety of telescopes, filters and camera setups, and processing their images into a final portfolio ready for submission.

We also ran the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad – a mixture of astronomy and physics problems involving the analysis of real observational data through to a conclusion. Junseok Choi (Newlands) achieved a bronze award and Andrew Holmes (The Grove) a Commendation.

In a similar fashion, all GCSE Astronomy students took the Astronomy Challenge run by the British Physics Olympiad. Harrovians achieved some of the highest gold marks in the country, with Brandon Chang (Druries), Ilyas Qureshi, Ben Kyd (both The Park), Aum Amin (Elmfield), Jake Brockwell (Moretons), Archie Kyd (The Park), James Pang (Druries), Tiger Dai (Rendalls) and Aiden Hargraves (The Head Master’s) all achieving a gold medal, with 15 others achieving silver.

Boys had access to a larger range of instruments for astrophotography, and

Photograph taken using equipment in the Raleigh Observatory

modifications to the setup allowed the tracking of stars to a sub-pixel precision.

They used this as an opportunity to test very long-exposure imaging with an astrophotography DSLR camera in addition to the research-grade supercooled FLI CCD. The telescope mount was configured to follow the International Space Station when it passes over the Hill, so that boys could film its crossing and produce a highresolution image of the station. They also imaged the Sun using the dedicated Lunt Solar Telescope.

During the Tenerife stargazing trip at the end of summer 2019, boys explored Mt Teide National Park while stargazing with local experts. They also visited the Izaña Observatory at the park as well as various science and cosmology museums.

During the year, we held many open evenings at the observatory for the whole School community to observe planets, galaxies, nebulae and star clusters.

– Chris Crowe, Head of Astronomy and Computer Science

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he number of boys opting for A level Biology continued to grow and approximately 80% of them applied for a Biology-related course (including Medicine) at university.

In the Biology Olympiad, six gold awards were achieved by Harrovians, including two by Lower Sixth boys who were only one term into the A level course when they took the test.

Sadly, COVID-19 caused a number of events to be cancelled. There was no Conservation expedition to Namibia at Easter or A level ecology field trip to Devon in June. However, the pandemic provided a unique opportunity for boys to engage with scientific developments in real time. Fifth Form boys were started on the Communicable Disease topic of the A level course to enable them to better

understand what was going on, while Upper Sixth biologists spent the whole term studying the pandemic – from the evolution and pathophysiology of SARS-CoV-2 to epidemiological models of the disease. The boys who followed these courses were left in no doubt as to the importance of biology and medicine to society.

– Nick Keylock, Head of Biology

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group of five Lower Sixth chemists undertook a research project with the aim of satisfying the credentials of the Gold CREST award by designing molecules with antibacterial properties. Through thorough literature research, the team identified suitable compounds before planning the synthesis of their required analogues. They successfully synthesised multiple organic compounds and analysed them by TLC (thin layer chromatography), IR (infra-red spectroscopy) and melting point determination. Unfortunately, COVID-19 temporarily curtailed the concluding aspects of the necessary laboratory work. They now intend to complete this in the Autumn term.

The first results of the new linear IGCSE were strong with over 50% achieving grade 9. The whole Lower Sixth cohort entered the C3L6 extension competition. As the competition had to be held online, the national committee was understandably unable to award official grades. The distribution of 6,400 results shows Harrow boys to have scored eight gold-, 15 silverand 22 copper-equivalent bands.

For the first time in over a decade, the School entered the RSC’s Top of the Bench

Professor Sir Gregory Winter

competition. Harrow’s team of Edos Herwegh-Vonk (Newlands), Aum Amin (Elmfield), Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) and Henry Webster (Druries) won the regional competition and secured a place at the national finals.

Professor David Leigh

Professor Sir Gregory Winter (winner of the 2018 Nobel Prize in Chemistry) delivered this year’s annual Rayleigh Lecture. He attracted a large audience of over 600 including many students from local schools. We hosted Professor David Leigh for the Coutts Lecture Series. His speech titled ‘The Magic of Molecular Machines’ combined high-level chemistry with highly engaging magic tricks. During his three days on the Hill he also delivered a series of masterclasses and seminars.

Representatives from EndoTherm, a company that has been working with the School to reduce energy consumption in central heating systems, delivered a lecture drawing on the boys’ understanding of hydrogen bonding and surface tension.

– Christian Penhale, Head of Chemistry

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he department was alive with lectures over the course of the year. John Bonas (Rendalls) and Sam O’Dell (West Acre) started with a talk on ‘Our Inheritance from Antiquity’, and there were lectures from a number of other senior boys throughout the year. External speakers included Fra’ John Eidinow from St Benet’s Hall, Oxford, who came to Harrow to talk to the boys about Horace. Unfortunately, after the School shut in March due to COVID-19, we were unable to host our usual Oxenham Classical Greek reading competition, and we missed our senior Plumptre Classics Prize adjudication, which normally happens before Speech Day. Over the summer, Paddy Breeze (Elmfield) won first place in the History category of the St John’s College, Oxford, Classics Essay Competition.

Max Morgan (Moretons) gained a Highly Commended award in the Literature category of the same competition.

A major highlight of the Classics calendar has always been the Contio, and in 2019 it was delivered by Head of School Andrew Holmes (The Grove) who, unusually, delivered it on crutches due to a football injury. The theme that he wove throughout was community, which was rather prescient given the turmoil that followed at the start of the calendar year.

In August, the department ran the fourth annual Classics for All Teachers Conference – online because of COVID-19 restrictions.

More than 90 maintained-school teachers signed up for a range of courses, which has expanded to include A level Latin and Greek. The Classics for All programme

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Head of School Andrew Holmes (The Grove) delivering the Contio

has proved extremely successful, with the number of maintained-school students studying Classical Greek rising from ten in 2015 to over 700 in 2019.

– Steven Kennedy, Head of Classics

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hell computing took a more creative and technical form, and extra computing courses were offered to both the Lower School and the Sixth Form.

A group of boys began a VR motorracing project before the COVID-19 lockdown. The hardware was assembled, and the team began designing VR racing simulators in addition to the pre-assembled programs available on the Steam platform.

Boys in the Remove enjoyed creating their own unique projects in addition to their IGCSE studies, with projects as diverse as arcade machines built using a raspberry pi, remote control drone camera applications for Android, and a VR environment uploaded to the Steam gaming platform. They developed solutions to problems using algorithms and a high-level programming language.

A small group of boys entered the government-run CyberFirst recruitment programme – a student scheme inspired and led by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) which aims to support and prepare people for a career in cybersecurity.

The Art of Programming is an Elective course that is offered to the Lower Sixth in the Autumn and Spring terms. Boys learnt to develop their own games and software in Python and programmed graphics-driven games that sometimes even included their

own artificial intelligence.

In the Autumn term, boys competed in the Harrow Schools International Coding Challenge, an online programming session with live video conferencing linking

hundreds of students from Harrow Beijing, Harrow Hong Kong, John Lyon School and Harrow Bangkok. Several boys also entered the international Informatics Olympiad.

– Chris Crowe, Head of Computer Science

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n November, the department hosted Professor Peter Childs as part of the Coutts Lecture Series. Professor Childs is the Professorial Lead in Engineering Design and Founding Head of School at the Dyson School of Design Engineering, Imperial College London.

During his visit, A level Design & Technology students were treated to three bespoke masterclasses and the opportunity to take part in a group engineering challenge, and he gave shorter lectures to younger students and a larger presentation to the wider School community.

In January, four boys were presented with their Arkwright Scholarships, a prestigious award for those selected to be future leaders in engineering.

In February, three groups entered the Formula 1 in Schools event after working hard in their Elective programme.

The COVID-19 lockdown meant that many boys studying GCSE and A level Design & Technology were unable to complete their final projects. It had been an impressive year to that point, with many innovative A level projects from smart canes for the visually impaired to sustainable fold-up commuter bicycles.

The department was proud to have used the lockdown time to develop and manufacture PPE for care homes, hospitals and schools. This included over 800 face shields, all with replaceable screens.

– Tom Knight, Head of Design & Technology

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group of boys studying Economics and Business travelled to New York where they had a tour around Blackrock’s trading floor and a Q&A from the company’s president. They also visited the UN and had a Wall Street walking tour on the theme of the women of Wall Street, before visiting the hard-hitting 9/11 memorial and museum. A visit to a Belgian waffle food truck allowed them to learn lessons about barriers to entry and monopolistic competition. They were also given a tour around Columbia University by Matthew Illomonya (West Acre 20143). They had the chance to see

Tom Brady, AKA the GOAT, at an NFL match, watched an ice hockey match at Madison Square Garden and had a walk down the highline.

Other highlights of the year were Tej Sheopuri (Lyon’s) and Deepan Sakthivel (Bradbys) being shortlisted for the New College of the Humanities essay competition. Bilal Rashid (Elmfield) was a finalist in the John Locke Institute Essay Competition and Arvind Asokan (Bradbys) was a silver medallist in the International Economics Olympiad.

– David Morgan, Head of Economics and Business

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group was very popular, examining topics such as post-colonial literature, pastoralism, aestheticism, gothic literature, and the form and style of short stories. We planned a Shakespeare symposium with London Academy of Excellence Tottenham, which was not able to take place because of the coronavirus. However, six Harrow boys went ahead and planned, presented and recorded their presentation, sharing their

excellent talks on a range of Shakespeare plays. Despite the Summer term taking place away from the Hill, boys engaged in lectures and discussion groups, sharing their reflections on recorded performances

by National Theatre Live and listening to lectures on nature and literature, dystopia and politics, and Arthur Miller.

– Lucy Ashe, Head of English

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The Suffragette movement was one of the examples of protest discussed in the Winston Churchill Essay Competition

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he annual English competitions were taken up enthusiastically. The Winston Churchill Essay Prize asked boys to consider whether protesting is necessary to defend democracy, resulting in many entries across all year groups. Boys focused on specific examples of protesting, with emphasis given to protests in Hong Kong, climate change protests, the women’s suffrage movement and the American civil rights movement. The top prize went to Sultan Aben (The Knoll).

The Learnt Poetry Competition was a lively event with superb performances from all the finalists. Novelist Joe Treasure adjudicated, with the Sixth Form prize going to a moving performance from Gareth Tan (Moretons) of Singapore, You Are Not My Country by Alfian Sa’at. Mr Treasure, an expert on iambic pentameter, gave an excellent talk earlier in the day for both the Sheridan and Classical Societies.

The Lady Bourchier Prize, this year adjudicated by Dr Joanna Bratten, Head of English at St Paul’s Girls School, was an impressive event with Hing So (Newlands) and Jonny Kajoba (Lyon’s) winning the competition for their controlled and highly articulate readings. The English Department Reading Challenge took place throughout the year, with Alexander Newman (Druries) and Christopher Liu (The Head Master’s) being the first to reach the nine-book goal.

Discussion and collaboration are central to the work of the English Department. The Lower Sixth English literature discussion

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Vineyards in Germany by Wladyslaw Sojka CC BY 3.0

s part of the Super-Curriculum, the department welcomed large numbers of boys for Electives on the Geography of Disease and the Geography of Wine, with the former proving prescient through research that became even more topical as the year progressed. Cameron Yarrow (Druries) was recognised with the S J Halliday Award for his all-round contribution to Geography through the Senior Geography Society and his provision of academic support to his contemporaries from local maintained schools as part of the Shaftesbury Enterprise scheme.

Geographers of all ages were equipped to collect data in the field this year. Boys in the Remove collected data on urban change in Notting Dale and on fluvial dynamics on the River Chess, with Aum Amin (Elmfield) achieving the prize for best write-up of the enquiry. As part of their A level course, boys had the opportunity to complete a range of interesting, individually designed research projects for their non-examined assessment (NEA). The impressive diversity of project is exemplified by the assortment of data collection carried

Many boys chose to study the Geography of Wine Elective

out, including, for example, the impact of pollution in Camden, the effects of urban regeneration in Belfast, the effectiveness of land management on carbon sequestration, and the risks present along the South Devon coastline. Patrick Kinnaird (Elmfield) received the Charles Laborde Prize for best NEA for his outstanding submission.

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The Coutts Lecture in Geography was given by Dr Linus Mattauch of Oxford University. He spoke on ‘The Future of Climate Policy’ and gave a lecture on sustainable urban transport in the pandemic recovery.

– Piers Lemoine, Head of Geography

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28 July: Liberty Leading the People by Eugène Delacroix

he department continued to teach a wide range of topics. This was most evident at A level where material covered included Anglo-Saxon England, 19thcentury Ireland, the Ottoman Empire, the French Revolution and English church and government in the medieval period.

A History Book Club also arrived, providing an opportunity for boys in all year groups to read beyond their syllabi and engage in debate regarding historiography. Boys were afforded unrivalled super-curricular opportunities via The Seal, the revitalised department magazine. With the cancellation of public examinations, new courses were designed for both the Fifth Form and Upper Sixth, which centred around the nature of history.

The department was delighted to host Dr Tim Bowman for the Lo Lecture in the Spring term. Dr Bowman provided some excellent seminars for the Lower Sixth boys taking the Britain and Ireland

Boys taking History A level studied the French Revolution

1791–1921 course and centred his keynote address around the Ulster crisis and the role played by the Ulster

Volunteer Force between 1910 and 1922.

– Rob Potter, Head of History

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History of Art

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hile the Upper Sixth were denied the opportunity to shine in the public exams in the summer, they did not let a small thing like the coronavirus slow them down. In lieu of exams, they went to work curating an online exhibition. Each boy selected a theme that tracked the cycle of the virus in five ‘rooms’ (webpages): panic, crisis, isolation, community and liberty. Following some tutorials with marketing experts, the boys integrated Spotify playlists and three-dimensional mock-ups of the rooms, and even created an Instagram page and staged a virtual private view.

While there were no trips overseas, we were able to visit the National Gallery, the

Boys studying History of Art visited Oxford

British Museum Print Room and Oxford, where boys toured Blenheim Palace and saw the Young Rembrandt exhibition at the Ashmolean Museum.

The department also launched the first Lower Sixth Elective – Early Modern Florence: Art and Capitalism. The course traced the unique economic circumstances, including the birth of modern banking with the Medici, that created the cradle of the Renaissance and transformed the careers of such artists as Donatello, Botticelli, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo.

It was also another exciting year in ARTiculation, the national public-speaking competition organised by Roche Court in collaboration with Cambridge University.

This year, we welcomed students from Whitmore High School to the competition.

The school final was as tense as ever with nine high calibre talks on such diverse subjects as cave art, a conceptual mirror work by Dustin Yellin, and Notre Dame in Paris. However, it was Francis Bamford (Bradbys) presenting on Whistler for Harrow and Elia Yousf on Mark Rothko for Whitmore who would go through to the national heats at the V&A in London.

Bamford’s passion for and nuanced knowledge of the subject prevailed and he was successful in getting through to the regional final.

– Juliet Bailey, Head of History of Art

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n the Senior Mathematics Challenge, the boys achieved 46 gold – Junseok Choi (Newlands) scored 125/125 – 63 silver and 31 bronze certificates, with nine qualifying for the British Mathematical Olympiad round 1 (BMO1).

In this, six boys achieved a Merit and Sam Shi (Bradbys) was awarded a Distinction.

In the Intermediate Mathematics Challenge, the boys achieved 61 gold, 59 silver and 33 bronze certificates.

Brandon Chang (Druries, Fifth Form), Liron Chan (The Grove, Remove) and Matthew Chin (Bradbys, Remove) all scored 135/135. Approximately 79 boys qualified for the various follow-on

rounds, but unfortunately our boys were not at School when these took place.

In the team competitions, the Hans Woyda team won the plate competition.

The Senior Maths Team were runners up in the regional final, and the Junior team won theirs. Sadly, the national final was cancelled.

After nine rounds of the Siddons and Snell Mathematics competitions, there were still several boys remaining, so it was decided the prizes would be shared.

Krish Nigam (Moretons) and Kevin Zheng (Newlands) won the Snell Mathematics competition, submitting nine correct solutions, with Arvind Asokan (Bradbys)

Modern Languages

and Matthew Chin producing correct answers to the first eight rounds.

Matthew Chin, Hansen Han (The Grove), Oskar Wickham (Druries) and Christopher Liu (The Head Master’s) were all still faultless after nine rounds of the Siddons competition.

The department ran two trips: 11 Lower Sixth boys watched the Gresham’s College Lecture on Maths in Voting, and 14 Fifth Formers attended the Maths in Action day at the Emmanuel Centre, where they heard talks on ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem’ and ‘The Quest to Understand Prime Numbers’.

– James Ashton, Head of Mathematics

HDT supports the Modern Languages programme.

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he academic year in the Modern Languages Schools seemed like it was following its usual patterns. Fifth Form boys learning French even took their actual IGCSE speaking examinations. Little did they or we know that this would be possibly the only real part of any public examination that would be taken on the Hill. In the Summer term, interesting new courses were put together for the Fifth Form and Upper Sixth and delivered online, and regular teaching of Shells, Removes and Lower Sixth, as well as all additional off-timetable lessons, continued.

In spite of all the differences from usual, and regrettable cancellations, such as the annual Robinson Lecture and a planned Sixth Form trip to Salamanca, there were still some notable successes to celebrate during the year. In response to lockdown, the Independent Schools Modern Languages Association organised original writing competitions by Year 11 and Year 12 pupils. We were pleased to see a number of entries for all of the languages taught on-timetable at Harrow, and special mention must be made of Archie Powell (The Grove), who won the Year 11 competition for Russian, and Richard Hayward (The Knoll), who was Highly Commended in the Sixth Form category for the same language.

In October, we held the first Sixth Form Linguists’ Research Evening, at which Anton Shumeyko (Moretons) and George Mingay (The Park) spoke about independent work

Boys debated mass tourism in Spain

that they had conducted over the previous summer holiday in preparation for their university applications. George discussed the work of zoos in Germany to protect species diversity, while Anton delivered a presentation on a research project that he had designed and carried out into the use of loan words from other languages into Russian. We are most grateful to the Shumeyko family for generously funding a prize for such projects for the coming years.

In February, two teams of boys entered the annual Hispanic debating competition

Photograph by Jose Manuel (CC-BY-SA 3.0)

at Merchant Taylors’ School. In this challenging competition, debates were held on motions that included mass tourism in Spain, military intervention in other counties and corruption in sport. The team of Théodore Seely (The Head Master’s) and Ben Davies (The Grove) won the competition, despite some very strong opposition from Eton, Westminster and North London Collegiate School.

– Henry Johnson, Head of Modern Foreign Languages

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n the Autumn term, Professor David Deutsch of the University of Oxford, one of the pioneers in the field of quantum computation, gave a talk to boys via Skype, anticipating what would become de rigeur by the end of the academic year. He gave the boys (and beaks) plenty to think about as he expounded his most recent work on constructor theory, a new mode of explanation in fundamental physics.

Following his talk, Physics beaks were fortunate to be invited to Oxford by Professor Deutsch at the start of the Spring term for a stimulating afternoon of inset with extensive physics discussion.

In the British Physics Olympiad Round 1 paper, designed to stretch and challenge the top young physicists in the country, Harrovians achieved a strong set of results with gold awards going to Junseok Choi (Newlands), Andrew Holmes (The Grove), Sean Hargreaves (The Head Master’s) and Sam Shi (Bradbys), silver awards to Eugene Kim (West Acre), Hamish McCreanor, Freddie Murley (both The Park), Alex Saunders (The Knoll) and Jason Zeng (Elmfield), with a further 12 boys achieving bronze awards. Jason Zeng’s performance is particularly noteworthy as he sat the paper a year early in the Lower Sixth. Of the boys achieving golds, Junseok Choi and Andrew Holmes achieved ‘top gold’ awards, putting them in the top 5% nationally and qualifying for Round 2 of the British Physics Olympiad as well as the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO). In these subsequent examinations, Andrew was commended on his performance in the BAAO and achieved a bronze in Round 2, while Junseok achieved a bronze in the BAAO and a silver award in Round 2: very strong performances indeed.

All Upper Sixth physicists entered the BPhO Physics Challenge, with 16 of them achieving certificates of merit, the highest award in this competition. In the Senior Physics Challenge aimed at the Lower Sixth, there were five gold, seven silver and 16 bronze awards. The gold award winners were Leo Jiang (The Knoll), Simon Luo (Bradbys), Luke Shailer (Rendalls), James Yuen (Lyon’s) and Jason Zeng.

All Fifth Form boys entered the Intermediate Physics Challenge in the Summer term, with 90% of them achieving an award. Fourteen boys achieved a gold award, nine achieved silver and 22 achieved

One engineeering project researched an air pollution monitoring system

bronze. Gold awards went to Archie Kyd (The Park), Brandon Chang (Druries), Maxwell Brooks (West Acre), George Ferguson (Newlands), Cody Xu (The Grove), Aakash Aggarwal (Lyon’s), Nathan Shepard (The Park), Edward Cleeve (Lyon’s), Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands), Jack Joyce (The Knoll), Ben Kyd (The Park), Alex Locke (West Acre), Hari Moondi (The Park) and

Jeran Jeyanthan (Bradbys). All Remove physicists entered the Junior Physics Challenge, where 60 boys finished with a bronze award, 39 earned a silver and 27 a gold. Special mention goes to the top performers: Liron Chan (The Grove), Matthew Chin (Bradbys) and Baba Obatoyinbo (The Knoll).

– James Bedford, Head of Physics

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fter a preliminary selection exercise, four teams comprising a total of 21 Lower Sixth boys plus one Remove were formed who tackled the following projects: ■ A plug and socket system for the 21st century ■ Wireless charging for electric vehicles ■ An air-pollution monitoring system for the Hill ■ Non-invasive fault detection in non-ferrous metals After six months of extra-curricular R&D and an intensive weekend of writing

up, the teams produced reports which aim to be of first-year undergraduate academic level. The boys are now awaiting news of potential Crest Gold Awards from the British Science Association. Aum Amin (Elmfield) deserves a special mention for independently and doggedly pursuing the final project in the list throughout his Shell year before joining a team as a Remove to bring it to a conclusion – the first non-Lower Sixth boy to do so.

– Martin Roberts, Head of Engineering

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he cancellation of public examinations because of COVID-19 presented the beaks with an opportunity to run university-style courses for their Upper Sixth divisions; with lessons ranging from the history of feminism to the politics of fascist architecture, the Upper Sixth boys were certainly kept busy.

The department started teaching new Fifth Form divisions, made up of boys taking the subject in 2020–21. This provided a chance for boys to experience Sixth Form lessons and explore the A level

course material. Online lessons were, again, wide-ranging and exciting, covering topics such as the history of political parties in the UK, the work of Ayn Rand, and China’s Belt and Road Initiative. All the while, Lower Sixth teaching continued apace, with the boys progressing with determination through the A level course. Despite the new conditions, lessons remained vibrant, exchanges of political opinion frequent and the quality of written work high.

– Alastair Cook, Head of Politics

The work of Ayn Rand was a topic covered in online lessons

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efore and after the COVID-19 lockdown, we continued with our programme of philosophical enquiry in a collaborative context, Philosophy for Children (P4C).

In the Shell year, the first four enquiries were focused on the School’s values of courage, honour, humility and fellowship, using ancient and modern philosophical and religious texts as stimuli for discussion. This was further enhanced by the Head Master leading enquiries with the Shell forms.

Professor Keith Ward

The boys are always encouraged by their beaks to engage in the Super-Curriculum.

A number of boys undertook independent research and have been writing articles for the department’s journal, The Scroll. This boy-led publication contains articles on contemporary philosophical, theological and ethical matters.

The Lower Sixth were able to attend a fascinating philosophy conference at North London Collegiate School with

lectures given by Professors Keith Ward and Angie Hobbs. COVID-19 meant that we had to cancel our Annual Gore Lecture, which was to be given this year by Professor Peter Singer. However, Father Stuart Seaton gave a cross-curricular lecture to the School entitled ‘Satan’s Backside: The Decisive Moment in the Making of Modern Atheism’.

– John McAleer, Head of Theology & Philosophy

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he Vaughan Library started the Autumn term with a zest for reading and promoting the best of newly published literature. The Reading Carousel for the Shell boys provided the Librarians with the opportunity to work with smaller groups of boys.

We worked closely with our Learning Skills Department to enable the boys to have access to the best level of literature available to meet their needs and then build confidence in reading and comprehension.

We collaborated closely with the English and Drama Departments, putting together stimulating book displays and information to reflect the work taking place across the School. Lyon’s and Morton’s House play, Frankenstein, provided the opportunity to promote the gothic tradition in literature as well as the role of women in science and literature. Mary Shelley’s close links with Lord Byron and the original idea of the gothic tale was the basis for our Archive display in the Vaughan.

The Banned Books display was one of the most popular collections we presented. The banned books included Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone by J K Rowling, Black Beauty by Anna Sewell, Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov and Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence.

We moved the collection of art books into the Study Room (formerly the IT Suite)

on the ground floor, giving it a better space with larger tables to aid teaching and learning. This created a larger display area in the main chamber, which we used for a Gilbert & George display in collaboration with the History of Art Department.

We introduced a collection to support the PSHE curriculum and a Matrons’ selection of books under the banner of ‘Reading Well’. These books are aimed at boys and staff and cover a wide range of topics including healthy bodies and minds, stress and anxiety, and diversity and

equality matters.

The abrupt closure of the School in March due to the pandemic meant that our Summer term was very different.

The boys were still encouraged to read at home with the provision of reading lists for boys joining the School in September, as well as boys in the Fifth and Sixth Forms.

Our Summer Reads booklist was a bumper edition as people had more time, and more inclination, for reading.

– Marie Staunton, Head of Library and Archives

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Talks by society members were on a range of subjects including the history of mercenary soldiers in in the armies of civilisations ranging from the Ancient Greeks, the Persians and the Romans through to mediaeval armies, linking it to how the patriotic soldier was formed. Other talks were on Charles Martel and the Battle of Tours, the Battle of Agincourt, the British military during the Falklands War, and the impact of the Vikings on the development of warfare. The society was also delighted to welcome back former English and History beak Martin Stead for a lecture entitled ‘Amateurs at war: the Battles of Edge Hill and Bull Run’.

Battle of Agincourt, 15th Century Miniature by Enguerrand de Monstrelet

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One society talk was on the Battle of Agincourt

ASTRONOMY SOCIETY Dr Graham Turnock, CEO of the UK Space Agency, a government body seeking to invest in UK aerospace infrastructure, gave a talk focusing on satellites. In an online lecture, Neil Kumar (West Acre) spoke about ‘The space race to Mars: all you need to know about the ongoing race to the red planet’.

ATHENAEUM SOCIETY INTELLECTUAL EXPLORATION

The society enjoyed a mixture of traditional and online lectures. Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) spoke about ‘Eternal life: The impossible dream?’ and explored the scientific methods that might one day make living forever possible, as well as discussing how society would have to change if death were to be conquered. Matthew Harrison (West Acre) gave a talk on the topic of ‘Molecular drills’, which looked at biological machines and their

applications. Gareth Tan (Moretons) explored how the malfunctioning of memory has been represented in literature and reflected in history in his lecture ‘Our malfunctioning memory’, and Sergey Antipovsky’s (West Acre) talk, ‘Why do governments intervene?’ considered what would theoretically happen in a completely free market economy and why some form of government intervention is necessary for stability.

Image shot by Rosetta

A Harrovian spoke to the Astronomy Society about the race to reach Mars

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The society ran a series of internal events that provided boys with an opportunity to present on and debate current issues.

At a joint meeting with the Scientific Society, Jan Kryca (Moretons) spoke about cybernetics and neurobiology, Patrick Tallentire (Lyon’s) gave an insight into the extreme situations that led to some of the 20th century’s greatest medical breakthroughs and some new explorative techniques that will aid the development of science as a whole, and Henry To (The Grove) and Matthew Ball (Moretons) gave a topical talk about the coronavirus.

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Boys experimented with an upgraded HTC Vive

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The society was very lucky to have Professor Sir David Payne from the University of Southampton to speak on the technology of optical fibres to a group of boys, visitors from North London Collegiate School and some fascinated beaks. Sir David Payne is director of the Optoelectronics Research Centre and has been working on optical fibres for more than 50 years. He is also the creator of the technology that underpins the internet and phone calls. He explained how revolutionary his design was and how laser technology has developed since. The society also heard from Richard Cooke (Rendalls 20073) who is a Vehicle Dynamics and Analysis Engineer with Red Bull F1. He gave a talk entitled ‘Engineering in the Fast Lane’ and described the work he does with the Formula One team.

Professor Sir David Payne

The Computer Science Society meetings were well attended with engaging sessions focused on the practical side of Computer Science, with occasional lectures from visiting academics. Boys regularly rebuilt desktop PCs and tweaked the architecture to produce more powerful systems, upgraded the six desktop machines with SSDs, extra RAM and processor and motherboard upgrades using equipment recycled from the Physics Department’s hardware.

A special high-performance cluster was installed to allow enthusiastic computer scientists to use high-end software that is unsuitable for operation on their mobile devices. An upgraded HTC Vive and an Oculus Quest allowed boys to walk around distant cities, experiment with engineering projects, paint in 3D, and even sit down to meet Sir Richard Attenborough. Some also began to design their own immersive 3D environments using photogrammetry software and HD imagery.

– Chris Crowe, Master-in-Charge

Junior boys debated the significance of climate change

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DEBATING SOCIETY The Debating Society started the academic year with some training sessions with Debating Coach Shaughan Dolan. The inter-House Senior Debating Competition argued the motions ‘This house believes that private schools’ days are numbered’, ‘This house would not marry’ and ‘This house would retain the BBC licence fee’.

Sadly, the final had to be cancelled when the School closed in March.

After some fiery rounds in the Junior competition, the final, a fierce battle between Elmfield and Lyon’s on the motion ‘This house believes fighting climate change is the world’s most pressing matter’, saw

Lyon’s emerge as victors.

The society was host to five other schools for the north London heat of English Speaking Union’s Schools’ Mace competition for public speaking and debating. The Harrow team proposed the motion that ‘This house would limit each person to one return flight per year’ and managed to qualify for the next round.

At the Oxford Global Model United Nations competition, two Harrovians were awarded Outstanding Delegate prizes.

This was particularly impressive as they were among the youngest delegates in the competition.

One boy gave a talk on the geography of Rwanda

Photograph by Joachim Huber (CC-BY-SA 2.0)

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DRONE SOCIETY Philip Banks, CEO of Altitude Angel, spoke to members on a multitude of areas within the ‘drone sector’ and development. Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) gave a talk titled, ‘Winged Minds: How to change the world and get faster takeaways with AI Drones’. His talk was followed by work on mini drones.

The society hosted several lectures by both boys and external speakers. Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) spoke about Western Sahara’s struggle for independence, outlining the territory’s history and its current geopolitical status. Finn Deacon (The Park) investigated how sustainability and the environment are inherently connected through the concept of the tragedy of the commons and how this needs to be managed in the long term.

Cameron Yarrow (Druries) gave a talk on ‘The Geography of Rwanda’, explaining

how this nation is unlike other African countries in many aspects. He used his photographs of an expedition there to show how the economy relies on wildlife.

The society also had the opportunity to attend a lecture at Merchant Taylors’ School, given by Professor Danny Dorling, one of the researchers behind WorldMapper.org, a website that creates cartograms where territories are resized according to the subject of interest.

– Adam Ait El Caid (Druries)

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The society hosted a series of debates, discussions and lectures from a variety of speakers from Shell, Remove and Fifth Form boys. Talks included ‘The Rise of China’, ‘The Danger of Supervolcanoes’, ‘The Security of the World Food Supply’ and ‘Global Implications of Automation’.

Highlights included holding a joint event with the Junior Pigou Society to consider the best solutions to the problem of climate change, our first online events and even a live, competitive Global Location Quiz.

– Lucas Maia (Druries)

The Grand Prismatic Spring in Yellowstone Park, USA, sits in the Yellowstone Caldera, formed by supervolcano eruptions over the past 2.1 million years

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CREATIVE WRITING

The society led the way in producing exciting poetry, short stories, flash fiction and general prose.

The National Poetry Day 12-word poem competition had a record number of entries, with over 150 poems from boys and staff. On World Book Day, 24 boys and staff entered our 200-word competition, producing exciting and original creative accounts of dinner party encounters with their favourite literary characters.

In the Summer term, we launched a collaboration with Notting Hill and Ealing School called Time-lapse, with students working together to produce creative responses to photographs taken during the coronavirus lockdown.

Harrovians helped to judge a creative writing competition with the Harrow International Schools, reading over 100 excellent pieces from students aged from 6 to 13 years. Boys were inspired to write by the shared community of literary endeavour, as well as our annual competitions: the Jonathan Head Barrow short-story competition, this year’s top prize going to Raef Tanner (Bradbys), and the Augustus Fleet poetry writing competition, the top prizes for this going to Jake Henson (The Park) and Louis Malhamé (The Head Master’s).

Photograph by Brocken Inaglory (CC BY-SA 3.0)

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Issah Merchant (The Knoll), Edos Herwegh-Vonk (Newlands), Naman Sharma (Lyon’s), Junseok Choi (Newlands), Nicky Lai (The Grove), James Yuen (Lyon’s) and Bilal Rashid (Elmfield) all gave talks to the society on subjects ranging from Topology to Multivariable Calculus.

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Consultant in Public Health Dr Jonas Thompson-McCormick was adjudicator for the society’s annual John Stoneham Medical Lecture Competition. From a strong field, he chose Alex Saunders (The Knoll) as winner for his talk on personalised medicine. Alex Saunders and fellow society member Harry Saunders (The Knoll) also entered an external lecture competition against Radley College and Wycombe Abbey School. During the COVID-19 lockdown, Patrick Tallentire and Jack

Gosden (both Lyon’s) gave an online lecture on trauma, Matthew Ball (Moretons) delivered a talk ‘When will it end? The troubles of COVID-19’, and Zayn Salah (The Knoll) spoke about the effect of COVID-19 on the BAME community.

The associated Dissection Society for boys in the Lower Sixth was also heavily subscribed. They conducted dissections of specimens that would not normally be encountered on the A level Biology course.

MOTORSPORT SOCIETY In September, boys from the society worked with the department to enter the Greenpower electric racing event for the first time. Six boys had spent the previous nine months designing and building a fully functioning electric racing car, named The Silver Arrow. The event was held at Dunsfold Park, often used for Top Gear car tests, with over 100 teams racing in two events across the day. The boys performed admirably in their debut run and achieved a top-50 placing, competing against many experienced teams.

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30 31 MUSIC PRODUCTION SOCIETY The society’s activities included talks from a number of boys, Open Mic Evenings in the Music Studio, and the presentation of some excellent rock concerts both at Harrow and at Wycombe Abbey School. The society also enjoyed a lecture from one of its members on ‘The Art of Sampling’.

In order to meet the challenges of lockdown, the competition for The Mortimer Singer Prize took place online, with boys submitting recordings from home to compete for the Solo Singing Prize. The winner was Fifth Former Max Paton-Smith (Elmfield).

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Cave of Altamira and Paleolithic Cave Art of Northern Spain

Waddesdon Manor

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LD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY ARTS SOCIETY

Before lockdown saw the closure of all galleries and museums, the most notable OSRG Arts Society visits were to Waddesdon Manor to see the Eliot Hodgkin Revisited exhibition as well as the new Treasury designed by Charles MarsdenSmedley (The Park 1972³), and to the RA for the blockbuster Anthony Gormley installation. In the new year, the boys were treated to the wonders of William Blake at Tate Britain, and the excellent Troy: Myth & Reality at the British Museum. They also visited the BP Portrait Award exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery.

Photograph by Yvon Fruneau © UNESCO

The society went from strength to strength under the leadership of George Phillips (The Head Master’s). A small group of committed boys met on a weekly basis to put together displays of specimens and deliver talks on a range of idiosyncratic topics from ‘Prehistoric mammals illustrated through cave art’ to the ‘Silurian fossils of Wenlock Edge’.

An Oriental Society talk was on the experience of living in North Korea

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ORIENTAL SOCIETY Throughout the year, members of all ages and backgrounds stepped forward to deliver presentations covering an impressive range of topics. Students from partner schools were also welcomed to society events. The society continued to explore, engage and hold meetings even during the COVID-19 lockdown.

Midway through the year, the society welcomed back former Harrow beak Mr Matthew Pullen, who delivered an insightful, impactful and memorable lecture about his experiences living in North Korea and the turmoil that continues to hinder its progress.

Members continued to engage with the society’s fledgling magazine Orient Express.

The magazine’s purpose is to provide a platform for members to engage with the Orient beyond meetings in ways that matter to them, and articles on a fascinating range of subjects appeared on its pages.

Society members Lawrence Leekie (West

Acre), Trevor Tang (The Grove), Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) and Edward Cleeve (Lyon’s) took part in the Teikyo Japanese Speech Contest for non-native speakers, held at Teikyo School.

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At the start of the Autumn term, the Chinese Ambassador Liu Xiaoming addressed the boys on China’s place in the world. Following diplomatic suit a few weeks later, Woody Johnson, the US Ambassador to the UK, spoke to the society on diplomacy under Donald Trump.

Members then turned their attention to the (then) forthcoming election and heard from Andrew Mitchell, who was at that stage preparing to defend his seat of Sutton Coldfield. Early in the Spring term, boys were fortunate to hear from Bob Seely MP (The Head Master’s 19801), who gave a fascinating account of his career as a Parliamentarian. Later in the term, Trevor Phillips, writer and former chair of the Equalities and Human Rights Commission, gave a candid reflection on the 2019 election and the possible future of the Labour Party.

Trevor Phillips with members of the society

Bob Seely MP

Woody Johnson, US Ambassador to the UK

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ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

Richard Nixon

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Chairman of the Pigou Society Mass Praditbatuga (The Knoll) invited the former Prime Minister of Thailand, Dr Thaksin Shinawatra, to speak about his business exploits. The society also hosted Bram Van Aalten from JP Morgan, who gave the boys an overview of financial markets. Peter Higgins talked about setting up, growing and running shirt-maker Charles Tyrwhitt and gave boys an amazing insight into the cut and thrust of the business world. James Carrick gave a detailed talk on the ageing population and public finances. Jessica Ground from Schroders delivered the society’s first-ever external-speaker talk in the online format, discussing sustainability in investing, something that will clearly

become increasingly more prevalent.

The year culminated on another environmental note with Simona Sulicova, who left boys with the encouraging idea that economic growth and sustainability are not mutually exclusive. Other smaller seminars took place on sustainable urban transport for the future, carbon pricing and behavioural change as a solution.

Boys also took part in a balloon debate, which Adil Shaydullin (Elmfield) won, espousing the importance of Pigou with clarity and poise.

The Junior Pigou Society was also very active under the leadership of Edward Blunt (Elmfield), hosting a series of debates about government spending and tax.

JUNIOR HISTORY AND POLITICS At the inaugural meeting of the Peel Society, Qumarth Akhavan Zanjani (Druries) addressed members on ‘The rise and fall of the USSR’. Other speakers were Henry Ridley (The Park) on ‘The Red Dragon versus the White Wyvern: the Anglo-Saxon conquest and colonisation of England’.

Edward Blunt (Elmfield) discussed US President Richard Nixon, and Jun Wha Shi (Elmfield) gave a talk on the nuclear bombing of Hiroshima and Nagasaki.

Other subjects covered in talks were Benjamin Disraeli and French imperialism.

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Dr Thaksin Shinawatra

CIENTIFIC SOCIETY

The first external speaker of the year was Professor Sir Brian Hoskins of Imperial College, who is Founding Director and Chair of the Grantham Institute for Climate Change and the Environment. Professor Hoskins spoke on the important subject of ‘Climate change – what does the future hold?’, describing the current state of climate change, the effects it is having on the planet, its probable future impact, what is currently being done to slow it down, and what we must do both to prepare ourselves for the future and to limit any further increase.

Lectures given by Harrovians included: ■ ‘Reviving and restoring a damaged planet’ – Freddie Murley (The Park)

■ ‘How culture affects our brains: bridging

the gap between culture and biology’ – Jonny Kajoba (Lyon’s) ■ ‘Chaos theory: how did that butterfly in Brazil cause a tornado in Texas’ – Eugene Kim (West Acre) ■ ‘Man-made climate change – hoax or reality: a debate’ – Alexander Newman (Druries) and Arion Beckett (The Knoll) ■ ‘Is there a problem with the God particle?’

– Brandon Chang (Druries) ■ ‘The importance of chirality in drug synthesis’ – Andrew Hong (Lyon’s) ■ ‘Transistors: the basic units of computers’ – Theodore Nash (The Grove) ■ ‘Space war’ – Humza Qureshi (The Park)

■ ‘Acquired savant syndrome’ – Nicholas Syms (Bradbys)

Finalists in the Senior Science Lecture were: Junseok Choi (Newlands) with a lecture on cross-coupling reactions, Theo Nash who spoke about light-emitting diodes, and Wayne Wen (The Park) discussing bioprinters and personalised drugs. The winner was Theo Nash.

Finalists in the Shell Science Lecture Competition were: Alexander Newman – ‘Dominance to death: why did Neanderthals become extinct?’; Hing So (Newlands) – ‘Biomimicry’; and Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) – ‘Chasing light’.

SOCIETIES

SHERIDAN SOCIETY LITERATURE AND WRITING

Boys enjoyed a lively series of talks from fellow members of the society on subjects ranging from a comparison of Jacobean revenge tragedies with the films of Quentin Tarantino to the dystopian visions in the TV series Black Mirror and their literary antecedents, and the horror fiction of American writer H P Lovecraft.

Cherie Blair

SHAFTESBURY ENTERPRISE SOCIETY

Jeremy Hughes

Jeremy Hughes (The Knoll 19703), who is CEO of the Alzheimer’s Society, gave an inspiring talk to members of the Shaftesbury Society about current research into detecting and treating Alzheimer’s and how the society is campaigning for better treatment and services for people with the disease. Boys were joined by pupils from local schools to hear barrister and activist Cherie Blair talk about the Cherie Blair Foundation for Women, which supports women in low- and middle-income countries to set up and grow their own businesses. She also spoke about the limited educational opportunities available to women in many parts of the world and the barriers some women face in their careers and in business.

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Members of the society were visited by a series of distinguished speakers. Dr Lubomir Rehak, Ambassador of Slovakia to the UK, delivered a fascinating lecture on the culture, geography and history of Slovakia.

Political and human rights activist Bill Browder spoke on ‘What life is like as Putin’s number one enemy’, and Professor Arkady Rzegocki, Ambassador of Poland to the UK, gave a fascinating talk that encompassed much of the history and culture of Poland and the reasons why this

unique history has allowed the country to be so successful over the past 30 years following the collapse of communism in Eastern Europe. Society members also travelled to the Hampstead Theatre to see a performance of Ravens: Spassky vs Fischer, a play that tells the story of a chess match in Reykjavik during the World Chess Championship in 1972, weaving in the themes of politics and government during the Cold War. In February, members celebrated Maslenitsa, the Russian

Professor Arkady Rzegocki, Poland’s Ambassador to the UK

equivalent of Mardi Gras. After a comprehensive introduction to the etymology of the word Maslenitsa (Масленица), members enjoyed traditional Russian snacks before watching the Oscar-winning film Burnt by the Sun (Утомлённые солнцем), directed by Nikita Mikhalkov.

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SUMMERSON SOCIETY HISTORY OF ART

As well as organsing a hugely successful Gilbert & George exhibition in the Autumn term, members of the society welcomed a number of industry experts to introduce boys to the application of Art History. In November, Matt Carey-Williams, Director of Victoria Miro Gallery, came to discuss the various facets of the art world, from

academia to journalism to selling. Henrietta Billings, Director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage, offered an insight into the charitable sector, discussing some of the projects that she has been working on. These talks were supplemented by some student presentations including Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) discussing the link

between religion and art in early 20thcentury Britain, Louis Malhamé (The Head Master’s) presenting twice on the art of appreciation and the psychology of advertising, and Sasha Sebag-Montefiore (The Knoll) and Leo Wright (Elmfield) reassessing the work of little known Renaissance master Signorelli.

Henrietta Billings, Director of SAVE Britain’s Heritage

REVELYAN SOCIETY HISTORY

The Trevelyan Society experienced a resurgence with a number of different speakers invited to the Hill across the academic year. The first meeting of the Autumn term saw Will Wainewright provide an excellent talk on his recent book entitled Reporting on Hitler: the British Press in Nazi Germany. Mr Wainewright captivated his audience with the story of Rothay Reynolds, allegedly the only man

capable of holding the Fuhrer’s intense gaze, who worked as the leading foreign correspondent for the Daily Mail in Berlin during the 1920s and 1930s. Later in the Autumn term, Dr Colin Imber provided the boys with a swashbuckling tour of Ottoman administration and, in an online lecture in the Summer term, Harrow’s Director of Operations Ralph Arundell gave an account of his time serving in Northern Ireland.

Boys heard a lecture on the Ottoman administration

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Art In November 2019, the Pasmore Gallery hosted an exhibition of posters by iconic British duo Gilbert & George, organised in collaboration with White Cube gallery.

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he six Harrovian curators - Kit Akinluyi (The Head Master’s), Jack Chen (Rendalls), Louis Malhamé (The Head Master’s), Archie Rowlins (West Acre), Raef Tanner (Bradbys) and Aidan Wood (West Acre) - who are all members of the Summerson Society for Art History, each chose a series of works to research and present alongside a response of their

own. They were particularly thrilled to welcome the artistic duo to the Hill for the private view.

In February, the Art School was transformed, with works of art placed in every corner for the annual House Art competition. With around 120 works on display, it was no easy task for adjudicator Michael Bruzon, Head of Art at Winchester College, to judge which was best House overall, but he decided that West Acre were worthy winners, with runners up Elmfield and Newlands. Mr Bruzon offered wise feedback to all 12 Houses about the work on display and handed out prizes for individual works by year group, as well as prizes for drawing and innovation.

Above, My Blue Plaque, Ulrico Zampa (The Head Master’s)

Gilbert & George at the Pasmore Gallery

The winners of these prizes were: Best Shell – Rei Ishikawa (Elmfield); Best Remove – Nikolai Hanbury (Rendalls); Best Fifth Form – Charlie De Labilliere (The Grove); Best Lower Sixth – Caspar Bird (West Acre); Best Upper Sixth – Will Dutton (Newlands). The Prize for Drawing went to George Phillips (The Head Master’s) and the Prize for Innovation to Raef Tanner (Bradbys).

Ulrico Zampa (The Head Master’s) of the Shell was selected for the RA Young Artists’ Summer Show 2020 with My Blue Plaque, a timely piece of social and historical commentary about the 2020 coronavirus pandemic.

Although it was not possible to hold the usual Speech Day exhibitions in the Art School, Leaf Studios and Churchill Schools, boys and parents were able to celebrate the work of all year groups online. One of the highlights was the annual Neville Burston Prize for Art. The Neville Burston Prize is a prestigious award made annually to an Upper Sixth artist who has produced outstanding work in their final year at Harrow. Neville Burston (Moretons 1942) also bequeathed fine art painting prizes to Goldsmith’s College and the Royal College of Art. Our Burston Prize judge this year was Jane McAdam Freud, the daughter of Lucian Freud and Katherine McAdam. Jane was Artist in Residence at Harrow from 2015 to 2017. The winner of this year’s prize was Raef Tanner for his installation A world in chaos.

– Laurence Hedges, Director of Art

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Above, Yoh Ishikawa (Elmfield)

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Left, Myles Dismont-Robinson (West Acre)

Below, Nikolai Hanbury (Rendalls)

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Below, Henry Oelhafen (Lyon’s)

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Below, Nick Martin (The Knoll)

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Above, Max Ferreira (The Grove)

Below, Otto Heffer (Elmfield)

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Below, Cody Xu (The Grove)

Below, Louis Malhamé (The Head Master’s)

Below, Jack Hargreaves (Rendalls)

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Above, Charles Read (The Grove)

Above, Caolan Desmond (Moretons)

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Above, Patrick Lehrell (Moretons)

Above, Jun Wha Shin (Elmfield)

Left, David Xu (The Grove)

Below, Chike Odogwu (Moretons)

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Above, Marcus Tung (West Acre)

Below, George Leigh (The Grove)

Below, Alan Tang (The Knoll)

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Photography These pages show a selection of work created by A level photographers throughout their course, including time spent at home during the coronavirus lockdown.

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om Placintescu (Rendalls) won the Photograph of the Month award for his long-exposure photograph of fireworks.

Josh Davies (Moretons) delighted us with his long joiner taken in Dubai, and Cameron Yarrow (Druries) amazed us with his curving football stadium and isolated self-portrait on an empty London Bridge.

Aidan Wood (Druries) won first place in the senior age group of the Fox Talbot Photography Competition with Chinatown.

The image was taken in Singapore during lockdown. The market is relatively full but, in the corner, a man is sleeping or resting on the ground and the whole market is moving away from him as if they think he is infected. Cameron Yarrow came second with Rush hour. Cameron described his image: ‘We have all seen sights that we never thought possible in the last few months. The one that perplexes me the most is the sheer emptiness of the roads in London. A self-portrait can be a powerful method to take an isolation-themed photograph, as it creates the message that no one else is around, not even behind the lens. The background is another key part of the image, the strong contrast between the buildings and sky creates a gloomy atmosphere which matches the mood of

Above, Solitude, Harry Tack (Newlands)

the nationwide quarantine. There is normally constant traffic over this bridge and the white lines on the surface are, therefore, not visible but, during these times, they are the only sight on the roads, and they create an interesting pattern.’

There were two highly commended third-place winners because the judges had difficulty choosing between the top four

Below, Photograph by Tomas Kemp (The Park)

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photographs. Rachael Thornton from Whitmore High School is studying Photography at Harrow. Of her image, called Grasping for life, she said: ‘The body floating helplessly in the bath is being kept afloat by the two gloves that protect her from the nightmarish world.’ The other highly commended photograph was by Harry Tack (Newlands). He described his image, titled Solitude: ‘This photo aims to highlight the backwards nature of life in isolation. The subject of the photograph can easily be compared to the image beside him, which is facing the opposite direction.

The subject is looking through a blurred window at an ironing board showing how less-interesting things have now become the centre of our attention.’

In the junior category, first place was awarded to Arsène Cherpion (West Acre) whose image, titled Alone, was taken in front of the Paris town hall during lockdown. In joint second place were Tomas Kemp (The Park) with his image of a person in a mask reflecting on life, and Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) with Selfeducation in the midst of a pandemic.

– Darren Bell, Head of Photography

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Above, Chinatown, Aidan Wood (Druries)

Above, Self-education in the midst of a pandemic, Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s)

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Below, Grasping for life, Rachel Thornton

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Above, Rush hour, Cameron Yarrow (Druries)

Above, Aidan Wood (Druries)

Above, Cameron Yarrow (Druries)

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Above, Cosmo Fisher (Elmfield)

Below, Charlie Christie (Newlands)

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Above, Fin Scott (Rendalls)

Above, Will Esam (Rendalls)

Above, William Blunt (Elmfield)

THE ARTS Above, Kit Akinluyi (The Head Master’s) Below, Rufus Hunter (Rendalls)

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Above, Tom Placintescu (Rendalls)

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he OH Players commenced the theatrical year in style with Shakespeare’s most dastardly villain, Richard III, played with wit and poise

by Jack Firoozan (Rendalls 2012³). A community company comprising boys, staff, OHs and members of the local community, under the direction of Adam Cross, filled Speech Room in a production which evoked the ghosts haunting the tyrannous king. Finn Deacon (The Park) and Columbus Mason (The Head Master’s) were memorable murderers; Charlie De Hemptinne (Bradbys) and Max Morgan (Moretons) the Princes in the Tower. Henry To (The Grove) devised and performed resounding percussion. A magnificent new Globe-inspired Tiring House, designed by the School’s Theatre Designer, Penelope Watson, was a striking centrepiece.

The inaugural House Scenes Competition took place later in the same month. Houses were charged with presenting an extract from a play with a minimum of two actors (and no maximum) on stage, and the range of material was remarkable. Mr Sam Jones, Head of Drama at John Lyon School, had the unenviable task of adjudicating, awarding the overall prize to The Park for their extract from Neville’s Island by Tim Firth. The Grove were runners-up, with their through-sung piece from City of Angels. Adam Ait El Caid and Zac Yardley (both Druries) were jointly awarded the acting prize.

In October, Kit Akinluyi (The Head

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Richard III

Master’s) directed a highly charged production of Sartre’s No Exit, converting one of the Drama Studios into a claustrophobically in-the-round

representation of Sartre’s underworld.

Reuben Ackermann (The Head Master’s), Jonny Kajoba (Lyon’s) and Archie Ross (The Knoll) made for a compelling triumvirate at the centre of the piece.

Many OHs will remember the Shell Drama Festival, in which new boys work on productions in their House groups, directed

by Sixth Formers. In mid-October, Just So Stories took to the stage, with each House presenting their own versions of Rudyard Kipling’s famous tales. Tobias Deacon (Newlands 20003) again joined the groups on stage as narrator – this year in role as an illegal poacher learning the error of his ways. Playing over two performances and involving more than 200 boys, the 2019 festival was another epic celebration of ensemble storytelling.

A technical exhibition in October 2019 marked the launch of the Theatre Production Crew – now re-envisaged such that boys from any House and year group can take on technical and creative roles in productions. Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) and Dylan Winward (Lyon’s)

56 57 brought energy and constant ideas to their role as Senior Technicians this year. Also in October, Ryan Theatre staff hosted an open evening for the Friends of Harrow School, in which members of the local community enjoyed backstage tours and a talk on the ethos and future plans for Harrow Drama.

In the first House Play of the season in November, The Grove and Newlands joined forces to present The Tempest, with a large ensemble cast, and full band playing a score composed by Theo Nash (The Grove) and Joseph Wragg (Newlands). Ben Davies (The Grove) was a compassionate Prospero; Freddie Strange (Newlands) and George Gallagher (The Grove) gave charismatic, athletic performances as Caliban and Ariel respectively. Later that month, Rendall’s

No Exit

Shell Drama

House Scenes winners were The Park

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presented Karen Louise Hebden’s adaptation of A Christmas Carol, directed

by Gaynor Jervis – a production which strikingly brought out the ghost-story elements of Dickens’ classic, with memorable moments of stagecraft. Jonny Blake McGrath (Rendalls) gave a moving performance as Scrooge; Max Morgan (Rendalls) was an earnest, empathetic Bob Cratchitt, and Leo Haitzmann, Jolyon Glynn and Kit Davidson (all Rendalls) were a charismatic trio of visiting spirits.

Throughout the Spring term, inspired

by Dickens’ writing, Reuben Ackermann (The Head Master’s), Kyle Debrah (Elmfield) and Ben Leonard (The Grove), under the guidance of Gaynor Jervis, ran drama and storytelling workshops with children at Roxeth Primary School, many of whom had enjoyed the Rendalls production with their families.

In January, Lyon’s and Moretons combined to present an atmospheric production of Mary Shelley’s Frankenstein, directed by Adam Cross, in which a

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live-mixed electro-soundscape, combined with an almost constantly revolving stage, created an unsettling, shape-shifting atmosphere. At the centre of the piece, Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) portrayed intensive, driven ambition as Frankenstein, while Theo Tomlinson (Moretons) was truly sympathetic as the creature, in a performance of remarkable physical

control. To finish the House Play season, Druries presented The Three Musketeers, under the swashbuckling direction of Alison O’Neill. Leading a large and vibrant company, Zac Yardley (Druries) was an energetic D’Artagnon.

Over the course of the House Play season, and under the guidance of the Drama and Theatre Department’s

production staff led by Production Manager Kieran Kinsella, boys created original soundscapes and musical scores, realised atmospheric lighting designs, and helped to construct ambitious set pieces.

In March, the Rattigan Society presented Stephen Sondheim’s Assassins, with direction by Annabel Morley and musical direction by William Church, Head of

THE ARTS The Three Musketeers

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Academic Music. A company of boys from across Houses and years were joined by girls from Whitmore High School and St Dominic’s Sixth Form College.

Stephen Sondheim’s challenging, atmospheric musical, which tells the stories behind assassinations and attempted assassinations of US presidents, featured commanding performances from Jake Henson (The Park) as John Wilkes Booth, and Harry Lempriere-Johnston (Druries) as the Baladeer. George Townshend (Lyon’s) gave an emotive, charged interpretation of Lee Harvey Oswald.

Drama is taught on the curriculum in every year at Harrow. All boys in the Shell, Remove and Fifth Form followed drama skills-based courses in collaboration, presentation and communication. Boys opting for GCSE and A level Drama and Theatre presented a wide range of performances, including excerpts from Ernest and the Pale Moon, The Ferryman, and Macbeth, and devised pieces taking their inspiration from subjects ranging from Greek myths to Paradise Lost. Boys also had the opportunity to take in a diverse range of performances across London and beyond as audience members.

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Despite the move to remote teaching in March, Harrow Drama was active online throughout the Summer term, launching a School-wide monologue performance competition in May. Boys from all year groups rehearsed, performed and selftaped a wide range of material. Director in Residence Annabel Morley eventually judged the winning entries to be from Remi Jokosenumi and Jonny Kajoba, with highly commended mentions to Ben Davies and Theo Tomlinson. For Speech Day, in the

absence of ‘live’ Speeches, Jake Henson, Max Morgan, Gabe Rogers (The Knoll) and Freddie Strange created a moving digital recording of Byron’s On a Distant View of the Village and School of Harrow on the Hill (1806).

Finally, in 2019/20, we launched the Jeremy Lemmon Project in conjunction with Shakespeare’s Globe Theatre, funded by proceeds from the 2018 gala performance of Twelfth Night. In the programme, Harrow boys form an acting company

The Jeremy Lemmon Project moved online when schools shut down

alongside pupils from partner maintained schools with mentoring from the Globe’s actors, and with access to its stages. The inaugural project started in January, with Sixth-Form boys attending workshops at the Globe and at local schools. When school sites closed in March, the project moved online, culminating in a vibrant and celebratory sharing via Zoom in June.

– Adam Cross, Director of Drama

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Music

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s the massed forces of Harrow and John Lyon School gathered for our annual Commemoration Concert, few could have imagined that by mid-March we would be dealing with social distancing and worries about the dangers of singing. As ever, this concert enabled us to make a flying start to the new school year with combined ensembles. The Orchestra shook the rafters of Speech Room with a performance of John Williams’ Star Wars Suite, while the Choir, not willing to be outdone, gave an exciting rendition of Handel’s Foundling Hospital Anthem, with some impressive solos from Lyonians and Harrovians alike. Contributions from our own String Orchestra and Big Band made up the rest of an eclectic programme.

The School was in fine voice for Harrow Association Songs and Churchill Songs in the Autumn term, and the Houses reached a high standard in Glees and Twelves. The adjudicator, Mr Hugh Morris (Director of the Royal School of Church Music), had an unenviable task in deciding the winners from such a strong field, but after considerable deliberation placed Elmfield first in the Twelve and The Grove first in the Glee.

After half-term, a small group of boys joined forces with the choir of Francis Holland School for a performance of the Victoria Requiem on Remembrance Sunday. Following that, we travelled to Pinner Parish Church to celebrate St Cecilia’s Day with Purcell’s Ode on

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St Cecilia’s Day, much to the delight of a large audience in a very cold church.

There were also wonderful performances of Bach Cantatas in the Chapel.

The Chapel and Harmony Choirs were on excellent form, leading our worship with great dedication and commitment. The Carol Services were a particular highlight

and the boys enjoyed performing a new carol by Bill Ives in the presence of the composer.

It was another exciting year for the Byron Consort with its annual performance of Choral Evensong at St Paul’s Cathedral in November, as well as lunch-time concerts in the City of London at St Mary-le-Bow and St Stephen Walbrook, and Masses at Corpus Christi, Maiden Lane and Our Lady, St John’s Wood. The choir was also scheduled to give a concert at St Pancras Church as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music and to sing Choral Evensong at Chichester Cathedral, but sadly these performances were cancelled owing to the pandemic. Luckily, the choir managed to complete its annual overseas tour just before lockdown, and had a highly successful visit to Madrid during February half-term, the first time it has performed in Spain.

The instrumental ensembles also had a fine year and displayed their skills in a wide variety of genres and repertoire. At the Michaelmas Concert, the Concert Band shone, with medleys of tunes made famous

by The Incredibles and The Beach Boys complementing exuberant performances by the Big Band. The orchestras gave Elgar,

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Berlioz and Tchaikovsky their just due with polished, sensitive and stylish playing. The same high standard of executant skills was on display at the Spring Concert in a programme that included the theme from The Magnificent Seven, highlights from The Jersey Boys, Tchaikovsky’s String Serenade, a splendid rendition of Stardust by the Big Band, and some wonderful playing of Villa-Lobos by a cello ensemble. This unforgettable concert took place as the COVID-19 crisis closed in, and there was something remarkably poignant in the Orchestra’s deeply moving account of Elgar’s Enigma Variations.

Between these two events, the String Orchestra enjoyed a hugely successful tour to China, in the course of which we performed to more than 5,000 people.

The most memorable concert was undoubtedly in the wonderful main concert hall of the Oriental Arts Centre in Shanghai, before we travelled on to Zhuhai, Nanning and Shenzen.

Chamber music remains a strength in the musical life of the School and we welcomed Guy Hopkins, formerly Director of Music and now Registrar at Westminster School, as adjudicator for the House Instrumental Competition. The level of

House Instrumental Competition

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technical brilliance and musicianship in the Solo round was astonishing, with The Head Master’s taking first place. Lyon’s won the competition for large ensembles. The Small Ensemble round is the jewel in the crown of this competition, with every House producing some wonderful chamber music, with The Grove being eventual winners.

Boys supported the Drama Department by composing and performing music for House plays and a large number were involved on stage and in the band for the

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terrific run of Sondheim’s Assassins.

There were some excellent concerts of solo performances, ranging from the OH Room Concerts to the weekly lunchtime concerts at St Mary’s, as well as afternoons and evenings of music for strings, woodwind, guitar and piano. The final OH Room concert of the year took place on the eve of the suspension of normal School.

We moved the event to Speech Room, and a socially distanced audience sat freezing as we opened all the doors to minimise the

risk of infection. The Brass Ensemble brought our evening of live music to a close with a performance of Chris Hazell’s 3 Brass Cats.

The Choral Society had been working hard at the Verdi Requiem but, alas, its performance could not take place, and neither could the usual Summer term concerts.

Francis Bamford (Bradbys) was the overall winner in the Sixth Form age category of the St Edmundsbury Cathedral composition competition. His piece, Kettle’s Yard, for tenor, string quartet and piano, will be recorded and performed in a concert series at the cathedral in 2020. Another part of his prize will be a further commission from the cathedral.

During lockdown, staff had to address the challenges of online teaching. Almost 3,000 individual online music lessons were taught in the Summer term, and I am told that boys seem to have practised even more than usual. Weekly lunchtime concerts on Firefly continued with a mixture of archive material and performances submitted from home. The audience numbers for these online concerts were good and they demonstrate the value of recording every concert the boys give. Staff and boys clearly also enjoyed revisiting concerts from the archive.

– David Woodcock, Director of Music

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Byron Consort in Madrid

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CHAPEL At the end of March 2020, Chapel had to go ‘online’, with Fr James and I both streaming weekly messages and Fr Stuart offering live Mass from his chapel at home.

Even though Chapel was not mandatory, it was heartwarming and encouraging to see hundreds of boys and staff accessing the site.

The Chapel-Word channel was even trending on several occasions!

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uring School services, we began to look at passages from John’s Gospel, which are so pertinent today, and I include below extracts of the final talk of the year. Its theme remains of the highest importance at Harrow.

COVID-19 has brought much uncertainty, but it has made one thing crystal clear: somewhere deep we were made to connect. That’s why loneliness, being socially distanced or shielded, can be so painful.

The yearning to attach and connect, to love and be loved, is the fiercest longing of the soul. The hunger for community is why Plato wrote the Republic and St Augustine wrote City of God. We use words like clan, tribe, a family; we are familiar with a school, a House or a team, even a Microsoft Team. Whatever you call it, whoever you are, you need to belong.

In the first part of the Bible, there is a picture of the Garden of Eden. We are told that God sees everything, and he describes it all as ‘good’. The sea and sky, the plants and animals, everything is unspeakably delightful. It’s all harmony and excellence.

But then God says something isn’t good: “It is not good that man should be alone.”

We find from the start that there is a need of another. The passage makes clear the importance of human relationships.

Sometimes in Church circles, people, and I have done it myself, quote Augustine or Pascal: “We have a God-shaped void in us that nothing else can fill.” However, according to writer of Genesis there is a human-shaped void that God himself cannot fill. There is no substitute that fills the need for human relationships, and if I have one message for those who left Harrow in 2020 it is that no amount of money, possessions or achievement will be a substitute for friendship or connection.

Seven years ago, I witnessed something astonishing in New York. I was walking through Times Square with my son in late August. It was before Covid and everything and everyone was frenetic and frenzied.

Suddenly, a familiar face appeared on the biggest screen between Broadway and 43rd Street. It was the face of Martin Luther King and, as he began to speak, everyone, including the taxi drivers, stopped. No one moved and everyone listened.

We had stumbled into the 50th anniversary of the single most memorable speech of the 20th century: “I have a dream”. This was a plea that all human beings should be able to sit together, join hands and sing a common song. The speech still resonates at the deepest level.

This wasn’t just Martin Luther King’s dream; it’s the human dream. It is God’s dream.

It is why Harrow has the core value of fellowship. With God, there can be no place for racism, neither casual nor banter.

This is because it destroys the dream, it destroys lives... that matter.

Jesus taught a radical new way of understanding community. He said if we have one heavenly father then we are all brothers and sisters. Therefore, it is inconceivable that anyone is intrinsically worth more than another. We each deserve one another’s abiding love and consideration. Whether we are black, white, gay, straight, male or female, that’s fellowship. The first Christians gave this community a new Greek name, ecclesia, from which we derive our word ‘Church’.

Church is a place that allows us, or should enable us, to become the people we always hoped we’d be. This is the dream that each one of us has a responsibility to work for in this community at Harrow and in our world.

– Nic Tivey, Lead Chaplain

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CONSERVATION Boys visited Kew Gardens

The boys spent the first part of the Autumn term honing their identification skills, primarily of seeds and fruits. To enhance the sensory experience, some fruits were collected and made into a crumble!

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his tied in nicely with the topic Sexual Reproduction in Flowering Plants that the boys were studying in Biology at the time.

We made tentative forays into Newlands Wood, avoiding the small clumps of Japanese knotweed that persist there.

The main stand of hazel was coppiced and the cut poles were used to create a dead hedge. A visit to Kew Gardens helped to reinforce their studies.

Once we had moved to winter timetable, it was possible to carry out work with local primary schools. The boys took groups of Year 4 pupils on tours of the lower graveyard of St Mary’s Church. They talked to the children about yew trees, showed them the different species of fungi growing among the graves and helped them to remove ivy from the headstones.

The focus in the early part of the Spring term was on birds. Boys put up feeders in their House gardens in readiness for the RSPB Big Garden Birdwatch and new nestboxes were erected in Newlands Wood.

The heavy rains delayed the onset of spring, which gave us time to put in some hedging

plants on the farm. Some 400 hawthorn, dogwood, field maple, blackthorn and hazel whips were planted at the edge of Hemstall 1 alongside the public footpath.

Willow seemed like a better choice at the time, given the water-logged conditions, but come May these young trees were having to cope with drought.

It was a shame the boys were not around to enjoy the wildlife of Harrow in the spring

and early summer. The woodland glades were ablaze with bluebells, primroses and wood anemones. The bumblebees and large hoverflies soon appeared along with the butterflies that had overwintered as adults. With fewer people and vehicles around, the mammals seemed even bolder than usual; both badgers and foxes were spotted in daylight hours.

– Nick Keylock, Master-in-Charge

ECO-SCHOOLS NETWORK

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For the first time, Harrow hosted a meeting of the Eco-Schools Network, which provides a platform for discussion of environmental issues. Harrovians were joined by representatives from St Paul’s Girls School, North London Collegiate School, Sutton High School and Godolphin and Latymer School.

Delegates were divided into two groups: student and teachers. The students’ group discussed issues around catering, energy, biodiversity, plastics, water and school trips. The combination of different opinions and perspectives proved to be both interesting and productive. Heightening awareness of climate issues, alongside looking at it more positively as a way of providing opportunities, was considered the best

Eco-Schools Network meeting

way forward and everyone left with many more detailed ideas about how to make school communities more eco-friendly.

A teachers’ meeting exploring the same issues was just as fruitful. Weighing waste, environmental competitions, carbon offset, how to raise awareness of biodiversity and a possible link to Shaftesbury Enterprise and other

charitable organisations were particularly productive discussions. The meeting culminated in students and teachers coming together to discuss points of interest from both meetings. Notable was the high level of optimism from all present and the belief that by working together we all have the potential to create significant change.

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD Boys continued to participate in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award (DofE) at all three levels, with enthusiasm and commitment.

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uring the year, 26 boys completed the Gold Award, 29 the Silver Award and 12 the Bronze. There were 23 new sign-ups for Gold, 74 for Silver and 15 for Bronze.

Sadly, circumstances beyond everyone’s control mean that these boys will take much longer than usual to complete their awards and a number will struggle to do so. We were all set to head off on the practice expeditions at the end of March when suddenly these had to be cancelled. Even with some easing of restrictions during the summer holidays, residential activities were still not advised by the Government.

However, participants can now be awarded a Certificate of Achievement for completing their volunteering, skill and physical recreation sections. This will enable a boy who is not able to do the expeditions still to be recognised for his commitment to the other parts of the award.

Lockdown provided new challenges to all of us and clearly DofE participants could not continue with many of their normal activities such as visiting a care home or playing in a football team. However, with imagination, many adapted and continued to be active. So, at home, boys found things to do such as shopping for local people in need, taking up cookery, having music lessons on Teams, or volunteering with an online project such as Missing Maps.

– Charles Farrar-Bell, Master-in-Charge

The practice expedition to the Brecon Beacons had to be cancelled

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HARROW RIFLE CORPS ROYAL NAVY The Fifth Form Royal Navy cadets received training and instruction in a wide range of practical, leadership and team building activities. Over the course of the year, they undertook sailing instruction on Datchet Water, studied the role, ethos and history of the Royal Navy, and practised the theory of navigation, compass work and chart work. They prepared individual presentations and learned about survival, camouflage and tracking. They attended lectures and perfected their drill. Q Sun (Moretons) and Fred Prickett (The Park) helped lead the Removes’ section in drill, command tasks, navigation and understanding the weather.

– Damian Cox, Head of Royal Navy Section

ARMY The Army cadets in both platoons of B Company took part in numerous military and field activities, including navigation, fieldcraft, small-bore shooting and first-aid training. These activities complemented the Rifle Corps’ aim of enhancing the cadets’ leadership potential, as well as their ability to work together in a team to achieve a common goal. This culminated in a successful map and compass exercise off-site at Horsenden Hill, and a complex overnight exercise at Bramley Training Area, during which the boys completed a round-robin of fieldcraft activities, nighttime reconnaissance patrols and a platoonscale dawn attack. A selection of cadets were invited to spend the day at MoD

The annual Endurance Event could not take place but boys undertook a supervised practice in its place

Larkhill on Salisbury Plain in order to experience artillery live firing. Senior boys planned and implemented a large proportion of the training under the commendable leadership of Head of Army, Harry Lempriere-Johnston (Druries) and William Cleeve (Lyon’s).

– Hamish Haldane, Head of Army Section

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Boys undertook numerous military and field activities

ROYAL AIR FORCE The Air cadets engaged fully with a diverse array of instructions and activities, centred around the principles of airmanship. The section ran a number of command task exercises, designed to promote problem solving and team building within the ranks, which were well received by the cadets. There was also an emphasis on drill and uniform, with the group showing commendable commitment and presentation at parade. Despite a truncated course of instruction as a result of the pandemic, the cadets still managed to participate in a number of enrichment activities earlier in the year, a highlight being the trip to see the Battle of Britain Air Show at IWM Duxford. Eleven Air cadets passed the Marksmanship qualification for small-bore rifle, for which they are entitled to wear badges on their uniform. The year concluded with the cadets being able to pass their Part 1 Airmanship qualifications, with a number going on to gain Method of Instruction Certificates, placing them in good standing for future leadership roles in the section.

– Rob Unwin, Head of Royal Air Force Section

ROYAL MARINES September marks a scramble to prepare for the ferocious Pringle Trophy that sees Royal Marine cadet detachments from across the country compete in myriad military stances in and around Cadet Training Centre in Lympstone. Sgt Jack Gosden (Lyon’s) led his team through drill rehearsals, weapons training and a variety of battle exercises in preparation for this competition. Harrow again competed well, finishing fifth overall, as well as coming first in both the Section Attack and Assault Course stands. The latter half of the Corps’ year was somewhat disrupted but remote

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– Simon Sampson, Head of Royal Marines Section

C COMPANY (REMOVE SERVICE AND SKILLS) C Company is a boy’s first experience of cadets at Harrow. Boys are placed in sections with a dedicated pair of NCOs drawn from the Sixth Form who are responsible for training the boys in the

basics of the cadet syllabus. A total of 186 boys in the Remove received instruction covering a diverse range of areas including fieldcraft, adventure training, and drill and turnout. Boys leave C Company with the rudimentary skills needed to progress in their cadet careers as they enter the Fifth Form, where they will receive more specialised training in their chosen branch of the contingent. All the boys made excellent progress during the year as they gained knowledge, grew in confidence and became more accustomed to the military way of doing things.

– Edward Stowell, Head of C Company

HDT supports the Shaftesbury Enterprise programme and provides funding for Harrow Spear and Lumina.

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SHAFTESBURY ENTERPRISE Harrovians – boys and staff – volunteered for many and varied projects to support the local and wider community. Alongside long-standing partnerships with local primary schools to support reading, science, mathematics and sport, or offering enrichment activities and curriculum support to secondary students, boys also participated in useful activities in the community and took part in a range of ambitious fundraising activities.

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ome of the projects in which Harrovians were involved were: Helping out at the FirmFoundation shelter for homeless people in Harrow ■ Holding social events for elderly people and visiting them in their homes ■ Helping with gardening and odd jobs at The Bridge centre, a safe place for people experiencing mental illness ■ Cooking and serving lunch for 30 guests from Harrow Carers at a Cooking with Compassion event ■ Giving regular help at charity shops ■ Helping with activities for young people with learning disabilities in partnership with Harrow Mencap ■ Volunteering at New Chapters, which employs its members, who have learning disabilities, to sell second-hand books online, offering them the chance to learn important skills for the workplace ■ Weekly visits to a Certitude residential house for people with learning disabilities,

Boys from Newlands supported pupils at Woodlands School

autism and mental health needs

■ Working with service users at

Wiseworks, a pre-vocational work centre for people recovering from mental health problems ■ Free, five-week practical art courses for local people over the age of 50 ■ Talks about the School’s collections for local societies in the Old Speech Room Gallery ■ Helping students from Shaftesbury High School for children with a range of special educational needs and disabilities to use Harrow’s sports facilities

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oodlands Primary School in Edgware is a maintained primary school for pupils aged three to 11 years who have a range of complex and profound learning difficulties. These include physical and mobility issues, and severe autism and developmental delay. A group of around ten boys from Newlands visited Woodlands each week during the project cycle to support learning and play activities. Their presence also made local outings possible, as they provided one-to-one support.

Walking to the park and using playground equipment, for example, helped improve the children’s motor co-ordination.

Cooking with Compassion lunch

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arrow Virtual School (HVS) ensures that all children and young people in care and care leavers have the opportunity to fulfil their education potential. Part of HVS’ remit is to ensure its young people have access to the best possible education and every chance to progress and improve their life chances. To do this, they offer support with studies, future pathways and work experience opportunities for lookedafter children.

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Boys helped at the Language Café

A project was set up by which Harrow Sixth Formers would tutor HVS young people of secondary-school age. The aim was not only to support the young people’s learning directly but also broaden their horizons through use of Harrow School’s state-of-the-art resources. Young carers, nominated by Harrow Carers, also joined these sessions.

The young people spent two hours at Harrow. For the first hour, they were given support in a subject of their choice. Those taking A levels were offered an hour’s one-to-one tuition from a Harrow beak.

In the second hour, a variety of activities was offered: Eton fives; rackets; astronomy in the Rayleigh Observatory; a drama workshop on the Ryan Theatre stage; judo; yoga; art; philosophy; history; business and enterprise; and talks by visiting lecturers.

One of the key aspects of this project was its sustainability; it took place every week and the young people automatically made their way there after school. When the coronavirus lockdown made this impossible, Harrow beaks gave online tuition to the young people each week using Microsoft Teams. The move online meant that it was also possible to include pupils living outside the borough.

Senior citizens visited the School for tea

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he Language Café offers a relaxed environment where women who are learning English can practise speaking so that they can improve their confidence and fluency. In 2019/20 the women who attended the café were offered a series of ceramics workshops at Harrow, themed around the common experience of making pots. Harrow boys worked with the women at the workshops and served them refreshments.

group of pupils with SEND from two local primary schools enjoyed a day in the Art Schools over five weeks. Some children with SEND are at risk of becoming disenchanted with learning, as they get older and begin to notice that they are not yet able to do what their friends do, or they don’t feel there is something in which they excel. The project provided a safe, fun environment where the children learnt new skills and were able to bring their personalities into their work.

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wenty boys committed to four hours of Spear training at the start of the year, led by the coaches at the Harrow centre.

Armed with new skills and an awareness of the significant and wide-ranging problems facing the trainees in trying to gain employment, they then started joining

sessions at the St Peter’s centre.

Under the guidance of last year’s committee, the new Lower Sixth committee organised the wonderfully uplifting annual Spear Harrow Celebration held in the Old Harrovian Room in October, when Spear trainees graduated and gave presentations on their progress to that point.

Generous Long Ducker sponsorship raised

£74,689 for the charity in November 2019.

COVID-19 meant that Harrovians could no longer visit the centre and Spear developed a digital platform to deliver its courses to its young trainees. It is hoped that in the 2020 academic year, Harrovians will be able to be involved in a virtual Spear programme.

– Hannah Fox, Master-in-Charge

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umina was forced to run online due to COVID-19. Typically, the summer school runs on the Hill for 200 students but moving online was a good opportunity to expand. The adapted programme consisted of 34 live webinars for students from our partner schools and offered over 50 hours of content. The thrust of the course was for students hoping to apply to Oxford and Cambridge, with a broad range of subject-specific taster sessions complemented by sessions on writing a personal statement, or how to interview well. All webinars were also offered to our LAC partners, some but not all of whom will hold Oxbridge ambitions. A record 275 students registered to attend, the high figure probably reflecting the fact that many students in the maintained sector had no forum to discuss university ambitions.

74 75 The summer school is an inspiring example of partnership both within the School and outside. Assisting with the course were career academics, PhD candidates and undergraduates from both Oxford and Cambridge, along with junior doctors, trainee barristers and even an Egyptologist! Alongside these professionals, the course was heavily dependent on the expertise of Harrow beaks, former Harrow beaks and teachers from local schools.

The course was funded by the Harrow Development Trust, with logistics provided

by HSEL. Feedback suggests that the course was much appreciated by the students: 73% felt more confident about applying to Oxford or Cambridge after having attended the course and 76% felt their understanding of the university application process had improved significantly. Importantly, 72% felt better informed as to what steps they needed to take over the summer to prepare their application.

– Matt Gompels, Master-in-Charge

Carolina Panthers with pupils from local schools

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upils from local schools, the Harrow Club and Harrovians joined members of American football team the Carolina Panthers for some training drills on the Harrow sports fields. For two days, Harrow served as the Panthers’ training facility before their NFL match against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers. The 1st XV rugby pitch was altered to look like an American football field and some hard yards were put in to prepare for their match. The Panthers went on to beat the Buccaneers 37-26.

Boys from the Oscar Foundation visited Harrow

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n the Autumn term, Harrow welcomed the Oscar Foundation from Mumbai, a charity that offers boys and girls living with extreme hardship the chance to receive an education while playing football.

The boys’ team enjoyed some sessions in the science labs before defeating a Harrow XI in a competitive but thoroughly enjoyable fixture.

– Alex Turner, Master-in-Charge of Soccer

Collections for Long Ducker and the Long Ducker Bike Ride are co-ordinated by the Harrow Development Trust.

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n impressive number of Old Harrovians, members of staff and parents joined Harrow boys for the 2019 Long Ducker, with more than 50 boys opting to try the half-marathon race. There was a new course, keeping much closer to the School than in previous years, and the wet conditions around Northwick Park and Harrow Park provided a new and exciting dimension to what had been previously a road race. The new route also allowed for more interaction with the local community, which was evident in the support being given throughout the event. Over £130,000 was raised, 50% of which went to Spear, 25% to the Harrow Club and 25% to other Shaftesbury Enterprise partners.

LONG DUCKER RESULTS 20km run

10km swim

1st Carlos Ohler (The Knoll) 01:26 2nd Luke Esposito (Newlands) 01:31 3rd William Thompson (Elmfield) 01:33

1st Andrew Hong (Lyon’s) 2nd George Rates (Newlands) 3rd Z-Za Bencharit (Elmfield)

10km run

5km swim

1st Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) 2nd Tom Emery (Moretons) 3rd Julian Abass (Elmfield)

00:40:20 00:40:59 00:42:02

02:04:38 02:17:26 02:30:07

1st Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) 01:00:49 (Remove record) 2nd James Rates (Newlands) 01:07:24 3rd Nicholas Finch (Newlands) 01:07:24 (Shell record)

Long Ducker Double – 10km swim and 20km run

Short Double Ducker – 5km swim and 10km run

1st George Rates (Newlands) 2nd Andrew Hong (Lyon’s) 3rd Finn Deacon (The Park)

1st Henry Pearce (Newlands) 2nd Aidan Wong (The Park) 3rd St John Smith (Newlands)

03:58:25 04:06:33 04:20:10

01:54:53 01:55:08 01:58:15

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ver 40 Old Harrovians, parents, boys and staff took part in the inaugural Long Ducker Bike Ride in September 2019.

There were two routes: 62 miles from Bill Yard to Highclere Castle in Berkshire or 120 miles to the Shaftesbury Estate in Dorset.

Over £25,000 was raised and will be used to improve the life chances of young people in Harrow and West London.

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HWA CHONG GLOBAL DIGITAL YOUNG LEADERS CONVENTION 2020 The annual Hwa Chong Global Young Leaders Convention had to reinvent itself in light of COVID-19 and move from Singapore to a digital platform.

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he Hwa Chong organisation surpassed itself over the four-day conference held after the end of term in July under the title ‘Concord: Standing in Solidarity, Chartering a New Era’. Arvind Asokan (Bradbys), Bilal Rashid, Shubh Malde (both Elmfield), Deepan Sakthivel (Bradbys), Q Sun (Moretons) and Kevin Zheng (Newlands) were superb ambassadors for Harrow.

Delegates were assigned to one of ten fictional countries in an alternative reality, engaging in heated debates on key moral issues, medical ethics and income inequality.

They worked long hours forging allegiances to rise against other powers and held in fruitful discussions as they raced to establish trade partnerships and innovative deals.

“It’s been an incredible four days that have been intense but really exciting. On top of learning a lot, we have built really genuine connections with people across the world.” These words of Shubh Malde encapsulate what a challenging yet impactful experience it was.

– Hannah Fox, Master-in-Charge

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ATHLETICS England Athletics is the membership and development body for athletics and running clubs in England, and directives were issued well before the outdoor season started making it clear that athletics competitions would not be taking place in the summer of 2020.

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chools’ bodies duly followed suit and running tracks across the country lay dormant for a number of months.

The indoor season (held in January and February) had taken place, however, and on Sunday 23 February Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) competed in the England Athletics Indoor Age Group Championships, winning a bronze medal. His semi-final 200m time of 21.98s was a personal best and earned him the top spot in the national rankings in his age group in England.

The athletes were very disappointed not to have been able to compete at all in April and May, but they do have the recently resurfaced School track to look forward to next summer, complete with underlaid electronic gates in lane 6, which records a variety of data, downloadable to a smartphone app.

– Gary White, Master-in-Charge

BADMINTON The Badminton Club fared exceptionally well in the 2019/20 season, remaining unbeaten in fixtures played.

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f the six fixtures in the Autumn term, the team won three (against Eton College (home), Bloxham and Charterhouse) and drew three (against Abingdon, John Lyon School and Eton College (away)). Sadly, some of our planned fixtures in the Spring term had to be abandoned, but the team played against Abingdon and Eton College, winning on both occasions. We hosted and won the Harrow Cup tournament, contested this year by Charterhouse, Coopers’ Company & Coborn, Eton College and John Lyon. Our exceptionally talented captain, Kingston Lee (Elmfield) must be congratulated as he has been part of the winning team every year since

The badminton squad

the trophy’s inception in 2016.

Kingston Lee and vice-captain Lawrence Leekie (West Acre) demonstrated superb leadership and dedication in their roles this year and were an inspiration to their peers. Leekie instigated a Player of the Week email to the squad, in which he highlighted notable international players on whom the boys can model their own style of play. This innovation created an atmosphere of excitement and aspiration.

We saw a record number of boys try out at the start of the Autumn term, which meant that formal selection was necessary. The high level of interest also

led to a reformulation of our training programme, with the squad divided into two groups: elite and club. Both groups trained twice a week with our external coach, Stephen Willis, and undertook strength and conditioning training in the gym. This development means that each group of boys received greater individual attention in each separate session. The improvement in agility and strength brought about by the gym training was noticeable on court, with many boys remarking on the benefits they experienced as a result.

– Ruth Cooke, Master-in-Charge

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BASKETBALL The basketball team had a strong season, which was sadly cut short by our switch to online teaching in March.

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ollowing a challenging tournament at Wellington College where our seniors came fourth, we returned to a home-court advantage for the rest of the season and enjoyed large crowds and impressive results. In fixtures against Tonbridge and Eton, we won both our junior and senior matches. Against Wellington, arguably the strongest of our competitors, our seniors lost, while the juniors pulled off a commanding win. The boys benefited tremendously from our world-class coach, Garry Maitland, who is to be credited for both the example he sets the boys both in conduct and character and in the coaching he provides in practice and matches.

– Spencer Bentley, Master-in-Charge

Basketball v Eton

CLIMBING All the planned climbing trips in September and October 2019 and February 2020 were rained off and we were relegated to indoor climbing.

Our main event – the Independent Schools Climbing Competition – was cancelled due to COVID-19.

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The Marmots Society (founded in 1929) is probably the oldest Harrow society. The marmot (a hibernating ground dwelling rodent and occasional climber) is the original representative mascot, so it was very gratifying to witness some 30 OH Marmots being tempted out of their burrows to attend the 90th anniversary dinner on 9 November 2019. This was a chance to share stories, pictures and fading memories. It was also an opportunity to sport some ancient clothing and equipment from a bygone age i.e. a baby-blue balaclava and bright orange anorak – with hemp rope wrapping – topped off with a battered wooden ice axe. The pre-dinner talk was given by Neil Gresham, who provided inspiration for the possibilities of life in the vertical plane. Other climbing heavyweights were present, including Johnny Dawes, who has been assisting with Marmots’ climbing trips for the past ten years.

– Martin Roberts, Master-in-Charge

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CRICKET Although a First XI squad of 16 managed a tour of Cape Town in the winter of 2019, the 2020 cricket season will forever be remembered as the COVID-19 summer, with not a single ball bowled during the Summer term as the School moved online.

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s boys headed home for Easter, beaks started to ponder how to satisfy the boys’ appetite for cricket, despite not actually being on the Hill. Some of this appetite was obviously met over the winter with the introduction of Mark Ramprakash as Director of Cricket, providing the boys with a unique opportunity to work on their cricket in the winter months with the former England player and coach.

A number of boys even had the chance to work with some of the current England crop, with a small group of Newlands boys fortunate enough to spend a day at the Lord’s indoor school training with Ben Stokes.

As the School moved to online teaching, the cricket programme followed suit.

Boys were provided with remote training sessions to be completed at home, and boys from all year groups featured in the new weekly Harrow School Cricket podcast.

The video podcast covered topics ranging from the history of the Harrow Wanderers to the Harrow memories of Sam Northeast (The Head Master’s 20033), and regularly had hundreds of viewings.

Mark Ramprakash

Newlands boys with Ben Stokes

2020 UPPER SIXTH LEAVERS XI TWO-MATCH SERIES As the School reopened, the small weather window that September can provide for cricket was maximised and the new 1st XI competed in a two-match series against an Upper Sixth Leavers XI on the first Tuesday and Thursday afternoons of term.

With the September sunshine pouring down on the Sixth Form Ground, the Upper Sixth Leavers XI opted to bat first. They posted a brisk but under par 121 all out, with Rishi Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) returning in textbook style with a swashbuckling 62. The 1st XI wickets were

shared around – four for John Richardson (Elmfield), three for Cameron Ellis (Rendalls), two for James Nelson (Bradbys) and one for Jasper Gray (Newlands). After another sanitisation break, the teams switched roles and the 1st XI began their run chase. Tej Sheopuri’s (Lyon’s) rapid 52 made light work of the Leavers XI total and the 1st XI comfortably completed a seven-wicket victory in just 22 overs.

The Leavers arrived back on the Sixth Form Ground a few days later with a refreshed attitude and had clearly decided that a less cavalier approach could lead to more success. The 1st XI batted first this time and posted a solid 163 from their 36 overs, with Johnny Connell’s (Rendalls) 44 runs anchoring the innings. The 1st XI once again started well with the new ball and reduced the Leavers XI to 6-2, with Shrey Rawal (Rendalls) taking both wickets.

Wijeratne and Panav Patel (Elmfield) countered well with an aggressive fourthwicket partnership and, as wickets fell around him, Patel calmly steered the Leavers closer and closer to their victory total. Connell tried to wrestle the match back into the XI’s favour with the dismissal of Patel for 61, but with two wickets left, Tom Ward (West Acre) bludgeoned 17 quick runs to take the Leavers beyond the required total and secure victory in the penultimate over.

– Johny Marsden, Master-in-Charge

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CROSS-COUNTRY In October, the cross-country team hosted the first round of the English Schools Cross-Country Cup. The Harrow team came second in their race, with notable performances by Tom Emery (Moretons), Julian Abass (Elmfield) and Thomas Hobbs (Newlands). Arrington Culbertson (The Grove) showed great grit and determination, finishing strongly to ensure the team passed through to the the next round of the Cup.

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n November, the team travelled to St Albans School for a 5km dash around grassy and muddy sports fields. Notable performances were given by Harrow’s fastest runners Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) and George Rates (Newlands). Julian Abass and Freddie Taylor (Newlands) also both excelled, given the competition included some of the best sixth-form runners in the London area.

It was bitterly cold on the Harrow cross-country course for the Ten Schools’ home fixture. The Shells began proceedings by taking on a muddy 4km course, with Julian Abass coming in third.

Next was the Intermediates’ race in which ten Harrovians battled through a now muddier 6km route. Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield) and Tom Hobbs displayed fine stamina and determination in this tough race, placing top among the Harrow runners.

Finally, the Seniors contended with 8km of mud. Graham Lambert achieved an impressive fourth place, with Ed de Bray (The Knoll) and Patrick Tallentire (Lyon’s) not far behind, helping the Harrow A Team to achieve third place.

The calendar year began with the historic

Knole Run in Sevenoaks, whose brutal 10km course winds through woods and expansive parkland populated by several deer herds. The Harrow team came fifth, their best performance at this event in several years. In particular helping the team to bring home the McGregor trophy – as the best school outside Kent – were Graham Lambert, Eddie Jodrell and team captain Carlos Ohler (The Knoll).

This was followed by the Borough and Middlesex Championships, hosted at Harrow. Harrow runners dominated the Borough Championship with many boys going on to compete for the Borough at

the Middlesex Championships. Julian Abass and Graham Lambert ran exceptionally well and were selected to represent the county at the Cross-Country Nationals.

Harrow’s six fastest runners took part in the prestigious King Henry VIII Relay competition in Coventry. Harrow managed to finish 16th of 56 teams, exactly the same as in 2019.

At Winchester College, the Harrow runners had great success, with the team coming first in the Senior race. Graham Lambert and Carlos Ohler came second and third respectively.

– Rupert Allison, Master-in-Charge

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FENCING The Fencing Club played 14 school fixtures, recording eight wins and six losses – a 17% increase in our win ratio, which was in no small part due to the hard work and commitment of all our team fencers.

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particular highlight was an excellent away match against Eton College in which Harrow’s sabre team – like the Phoenix – was revived for one match and which won in a nail-biting finale, along with all other blades, giving the boys hope that one day the Lansdowne Plate will be restored to Harrow’s salle. Harrow also came second in the annual triangular competition against Westminster and Tonbridge, which was a wonderful showcase of talent across both foil and épée blades.

Sadly, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the Public Schools’ Fencing Championships in March were cancelled, as was our annual

Summer-term fixture against the Lansdowne Club in London. The Paterson Cup for the Inter-House Fencing Competition also remains in Lyon’s hands until we can rekindle the competition in the autumn.

A disappointing end to an otherwise rewarding season.

In recognition for their steadfast commitment to the club this year, ties were awarded to Adil Shaydullin (Elmfield), Indi

Abrams (The Grove), François de Robert Hautequère and Yujin Koshiba (both Lyon’s).

François de Robert Hautequere is currently ranked sixth in England for Under-17 Foil and, at the beginning of March, he came third in the South East Regionals, qualifying him for the Under-16 British Youth Championships.

– Hamish Haldane, Master-in-Charge

ETON FIVES It was a disappointing end to a great season, with the boys missing out on the National Championships due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Several pairs were primed for success with some given first seed status.

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e did have several highlights during the two terms, with great victories over Eton and other leading schools. The outstanding performance came from our Under-15 team who won the Hughes Cup, becoming the best Under-15 team in the country. Alonso Fontana (The Grove) and Adam Zakhir Siddigy (Lyon’s), Gus Stanhope (Moretons), Charlie Hope (Rendalls), Leo Gordon-Pullar (Newlands) and Caspar Stone (The Park) proved to be unbeatable and excelled on the day.

On a week-to-week basis, the team were excellently captained by Panav Patel (Elmfield) and Freddy Anton Smith (The Head Master’s), who galvanised the boys in helping coach children from local primary schools as part of the Shaftesbury Enterprise programme.

– Ian Hutchinson, Fives Professional

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GOLF In a season frustratingly cut short, the boys’ golf team still managed to produce some fine performances against strong opposition.

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he opening competition was held at the beautiful Heathland course at West Sussex Golf Club. Conditions were challenging and the foursomes format was somewhat unfamiliar for the team, who were not quite able to place in the nett or gross competitions. The team bounced back well with a string of superb performances, notably against Eton College, in which debutant Henry Oelhafen (Lyon’s) played some wonderful golf, and a closely fought draw against Charterhouse with debutant George Webster (Druries) clinching the vital point on the 18th in almost complete darkness.

The team enjoyed a productive winter training programme and made promising progress in the ISGA Matchplay Knockout Competition, sadly losing in the final of the regionals to an impressive group of youngsters from Brentwood School at

Gerald Micklem Trophy team

Hadley Wood Golf Club.

The highlight of the year is always the Gerald Micklem Trophy held at Woking Golf Club. We took a strong side consisting of captain Max Shirvell, Toby Shirvell (both The Head Master’s), Aidan Wong (The Park), Johnny Connell (Rendalls) and Finlay Matheson (Druries). The boys all produced brilliant performances throughout the two-day competition. After a loss to Charterhouse in the opening round, we turned the ship around to claim a resounding victory against Winchester

College to reach the Plate final. The team came up against a very strong Bradfield College side and for long periods the match looked to be going one way and then suddenly the other. Ultimately, the result went in favour of Bradfield, but the boys fought with great courage throughout, never looking out of the match and leaving nothing on the course. Inter-House golf and the Parent and Sons’ tournament were sadly postponed.

– Joss Pinsent, Master-in-Charge

including Norfolk and Slough. Played in great spirit, the closely contested match finished 5-2 to the School. Afterwards, we were treated to an excellent lunch at the Rugby Club as the regular supporters arrived in readiness for the afternoon rugby games, which became the afternoon entertainment for the boys. Some local Harrow parents generously invited us to drinks before the black-tie dinner at a restaurant, where Songs were sung heartily and in excellent spirit. Sunday saw us travel back to Edinburgh where we enjoyed lunch

before heading back to the Hill.

The season started slowly in January with the highlight being the Tim LawsonCruttenden (The Head Master’s 19682) memorial match captained by Pierre Ali Noor (West Acre 20013) in memory of Tim, a great Harrow football supporter who had died the previous year.

The School XI were dangerous at times but all too often lost their way during the second half of the OH matches. They were just pulling matters together as the pandemic cut short the season and we had to shelve some of the more competitive fixtures. We look forward to welcoming those cancelled OH sides back to the Hill from next January. Persuading OHs to return remains a problem and I would urge any OHs who would like to play to get in touch with me (cdlm@).

The game remains popular in the School and the House competition was well contested, with Newlands beating The Head Master’s in the Cock House final and the Torpids competition, and Moretons winning the Shell competition.

– Chris Mann, Master-in-Charge

HARROW FOOTBALL In November, the annual Harrow football tour took a group of 14 boys and beaks to the Scottish Borders and the beautiful town of Melrose.

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an Murray John (Bradbys 19801) had booked a suitably muddy pitch for the game at Melrose Rugby Club and for a game against an OH side comprising current undergraduates at Edinburgh University through to more experienced tourists from all corners of the country

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HOCKEY Overall, this was a tough year for the hockey club with a 35% win rate. Talented but relatively inexperienced, the 1st XI had a challenging season and it is noticeable how many games they lost by just one goal.

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atthew White (West Acre) deserves a particular mention for his superb leadership: despite the fact that the 1st XI did not get the rub of the green in many fixtures, he remained positive throughout the season and did a great deal to raise morale in the ranks.

He was ably assisted by Henry Wilson

(Lyon’s) (vice-captain), Harry Kyd (The Park), Panav Patel (Elmfield) and Archie Rowlins (West Acre).

The 2nd XI won three of the eight fixtures played, losing three of those games by just one goal. Lower down in the club, the Junior Colts won four of their six fixtures; what they lack in silky skills, this team more than makes up for it in pace and physicality, and they are an exciting prospect as a year group. We had two strong Yearlings teams this year. The Yearlings A won half of their matches and lost the others by a very narrow margin. – Tom Elphinstone, Master-in-Charge

SPORT

JUDO In the Autumn term, we welcomed World Champion Neil Adams (ninth Dan) back to the Hill. Neil is Britain’s most successful male judoka and known across the world as a master technician and, through his international judo commentary, as the “voice of judo”.

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e gave a masterclass on some of his favourite throws, with an emphasis throughout on the importance of the set up, and a few entries into the armlock for which he is best known: juji-gatame.

We were delighted to welcome many new and talented juniors, including those training with us as part of the Judo for Rugby programme, which teaches essential falling and contact skills to boys in the top rugby teams.

In December, we took the largest group to date to Lanzarote for the usual winter training camp ahead of the Spring term’s two national tournaments. We aimed to develop the technical level of every boy through daily judo training as well as making full use of the outstanding sports and recreational facilities at fitness resort Club La Santa.

We entered a team of 27 boys in the HMC Independent Schools Judo Tournament, held at the end of February.

A record 15 Shell boys entered the Junior (Under-14) age band of the competition.

Lukas Edstrom (Bradbys) and Theo Stockmeier (Druries) were dominant in the Under-73kg and Over-73kg categories respectively, both finishing with gold medals. Gabriel Harrington-Myers (Bradbys), Harry Jang (The Park), St John Smith (Newlands), Netanel Lawrence-Ojo (The Knoll) and Fuad Abualsaud (Elmfield) took silver medals in their categories, with bronze medals for Freddie Dinan (Rendalls), Rodrigo Agag Aznar (Elmfield), James Lanni (The Grove), Joel Balogun (Newlands), Seb Brindley (The Park), Sam Phillips (Moretons) and Ollie Chambers (Rendalls). In the

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The Harrow Development Trust sponsors Harrow’s judo programme.

Neil Adams masterclass

Intermediates, Giancarlo Urselli (The Grove) took the gold medal in the Over-81kg category, with Phillip Truscott (Elmfield) taking the silver. Emmanuel Olowe (The Grove) worked hard for a silver medal in the Under-81kg division, while in the Under-73kg category Josh Soyemi (The Head Master’s) finished with silver and Jude Esposito (Newlands) bronze. In the Seniors, Daniel Ponomarenko (Lyon’s) took the gold

The squad in Lanzarote

medal in the Under-60kg division, with Jake McDermid (Rendalls) finishing with bronze.

Captain George Biles (Bradbys) topped a tough Under-66kg category. George Davies (The Head Master’s) saw off all his opponents with the maximum score, ippon, to finish with gold medal in the Under-81kg category, with Hugh Pearson (Rendalls) and Caspar Gurney (Druries) taking bronze medals in the same group. In the Under90kg weight class, Jan Kryca (Moretons) made light work of his early matches but had to settle for a silver medal behind a junior international competitor.

This was certainly Harrow’s most dominant display at this tournament, with 26 of 27 boys winning medals, and Harrow again finished as winning school, well ahead of main rivals Tonbridge, Winchester and Merchant Taylors’. This is the sixth year in a row that Harrow has won this tournament, which is the longest winning streak in the tournament’s history. Naturally, we were very confident about retaining our title at the British Schools Judo Championships in March, but with the coronavirus pandemic accelerating we made the decision not to attend.

– Matt Glossop, Master-in-Charge

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POLO The arena polo season culminated on 1 March with the National Polo Championships at Rugby Polo Club.

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his is a popular event, with all the polo schools taking part. Harrow entered two teams in the top two divisions. The A team, captained by Michael Fitzgibbon (Rendalls), won third place in the country in the top division. This was an excellent achievement as this young team included Remove Shrey Rawal (Rendalls) and Shell Hector Rogberg (Druries). The Harrow B team, captained by Marc Lindgren (West Acre) and supported by Florian Hull (Druries) and Louis Yeh (Lyon’s), also played well to come third in their division. Due to the coronavirus pandemic, no games were played on grass in the Summer term.

– Darren Bell, Master-in-Charge

RACKETS The overriding good news story was the total revamp and resizing of our original 1865 court.

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he project produced a superb court that has kept characteristics such as the central pillar and the abundance of natural daylight from the glass roof. It has also been modernised to have a steeper gallery and under-floor heating.

Rishi Wijeratne (The Head Master’s) and Ben Hope (Rendalls) won two of their three matches as 1st Pair. Wijeratne won the internal Challenge Racket Singles event against Hope. Henry Wilson (Lyon’s) and Jonny Connell (Rendalls) overcame a two-game deficit to beat the Eton 2nd Pair on the first match on the new court.

At junior levels, we had a committed and improving group of Colts players, a large, strong group of Junior Colts and a promising crop of Under-14 boys. The outstanding effort came from Tarquin Sotir (Druries) who showed tenacity and temperament to reach the Under-15 singles semi-final at Queen’s.

– John Eaton, Rackets Professional

The A team

The B team

SPORT

RUGBY With over 450 boys representing the School across 21 teams, it was another fantastic season of rugby.

Harrow boys play on one of the most consistently difficult circuit of fixtures in the country; to watch the boys play and develop each week across the club was a constant treat.

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he XV will reflect on a season of missed opportunities. After a fast start with excellent wins over Berkhamsted and Warwick, a tough run of form saw the XV

1st XV squad

1st XV v Tonbridge

lose seven games, four of which only by a margin of less than one score. A gutsy performance in the mud away at Bedford meant the XV finished with four wins.

They were well led all season by captain Nic Neal (Moretons) and supported particularly by excellent performances from Scott MacNaughton (Bradbys) in the forwards and Henry Arundell (The Knoll) in the backs.

Further down the School, the new Yearlings A romped their way to a fantastic unbeaten season and the Colts A took home the Middlesex Under-16 Cup.

However, it was the Junior Colts A run in the National Schools Cup that was perhaps the stand-out performance of the season.

Over two terms, they battled all the way to a home quarter-final on The Sunley against Trinity School, Croydon. With a fullproduction crew, commentary team and online live stream in place, it was a special occasion; the boys won a thriller on the last play to advance to the national semi-final.

The semi-final saw a long away trip to Ivybridge College in Devon. On a muddy pitch and in front of a hostile crowd, the boys battled brilliantly to draw the match 22-22. However, Ivybridge went through to the final as they had scored more tries in the course of the game: a terribly disappointing outcome, but the Junior Colts A exemplified everything that one would hope from Harrovian rugby players in defeat and remain unbeaten in their time at Harrow. They can hold their heads up high after a great run.

Before the 7s season was cut short due to COVID-19, the 1st VII came away with silverware, winning the Middlesex 7s. The Under-16s beat Sedbergh en route to the Stowe 7s semi-finals before losing out to eventual winners Millfield. – James Melville, Master-in-Charge

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Colts A

Junior Colts A

CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING Yearlings A

In the Autumn term of 2019, Harrow shot in a number of competitions including one in October at the Barbury Shooting Ground in Wiltshire, organised

by Marlborough College.

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n November, Harrow sent two teams to the Millfield Challenge at the Mendip Shooting Ground. With 28 other teams taking part and with shooting intermittently halted due to an escaped emu, on that occasion 12th was the highest place that we were able to achieve, with a notable performance from Peter Peganov (Druries) in the competition for High Gun. One week later, Harrow entered two teams in the Inter-Schools Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition, which traditionally takes place between teams from Harrow, Winchester and Eton.

This year’s event took place at the Bisley Clay Pigeon Shooting Ground.

FIDO MAY TROPHY On Thursday 26 February, 120 competitors in 30 teams took part in

Harrow’s tenth annual Fido May Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition at the E J Churchill shooting ground. Harrow entered four teams and achieved third place in the 100-bird Flurry Competition, as well as 11th, 14th, 15th and 19th places overall. In the High Gun competition, there were notable performances from Arthur Ludlam (Druries), Peter Peganov and Carrick Reid (The Head Master’s), who shot accurately in very cold and often blindingly bright conditions.

CHELTENHAM CHALLENGE Harrow was invited to take part in the inaugural round of the Cheltenham Challenge on a bright, cold and windy Thursday in March. The team took fifth place in the last competition they contested.

Unfortunately, this year, the InterHouse competition, the Parents and Sons’ Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition on the West Wycombe Estate and the second round of the annual School Notices Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition at Holland & Holland could not take place.

– Damian Cox, Master-in-Charge

SPORT

SKIING The ski team took part in the British dry slope competition circuit and came fifth overall in the age-groups finals. Rupert Cullinane (Newlands) and Charlie De Hemptinne (Bradbys) were both selected for the England Schools ski squad.

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n December, 42 Harrovians joined the annual snow sports trip to Jasper in Canada. While most boys took part in recreational or ski race training, two boys and one member of staff completed their Level 1 Canadian Ski or Snowboarding Instructor course. The boys also participated

Canada Cup Races Individual placings overall Under-16 Giant Slalom 1st 2nd 3rd

Charlie De Hemptinne Sam Harrison (Moretons) Arnaud Du Roy de Blicquy (Elmfield)

Under-16 Slalom 1st Charlie De Hemptinne 2nd Louis Parry George (The Park) 3rd Arnaud Du Roy de Blicquy

(Elmfield)

in mountain safety courses and avalanche rescue and enjoyed snowshoeing on a frozen lake.

During the trip, those boys who had either ski raced or were keen to give it a go took part in the Canada Cup races.

The races were held over two days with Giant Slalom on the first day and Slalom on the second. The race involved 185 skiiers from Harrow, Eton, Dulwich, Wellington College, Westminster, Highgate, Chicago School, The Oratory School and Marlborough College.

Harrow was represented by 16 skiiers.

The team performed outstandingly, and special mention should go to Tom Gianasso and Jack Behan- Woodall (both The Grove), who between them captained the team.

In January, those selected to ski again for Harrow went to the British School Boys Races held in Wengen in Switzerland, where they did exceptionally well. – Rob Robson, School Skiing Instructor

British School Boys Races Individual results Under-14 Ulrico Zampa (The Head Master’s): bronze in Slalom; silver in Giant Slalom; gold in Combined

Under-18 Giant Slalom Ist Rupert Cullinane 2nd Tom Gianasso 3rd Jack Behan-Woodall

Under-16 Charlie De Hemptinne: bronze in slalom; silver in Giant Slalom; silver in Combined

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1st Jack Behan-Woodall 2nd Rupert Cullinane 3rd Tom Gianasso

Under-18 Rupert Cullinane: silver in Combined

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Under-16 Unregistered Team silver: Louis Parry-George, Angus Walker (Bradbys), Adam Chambers (Rendalls), Ulrico Zampa

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SOCCER Before the season was curtailed due to the coronavirus outbreak, the School was performing well on the pitch, winning 80% of all matches played in the Spring term and scoring 368 goals in 95 games.

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he 1st XI had another strong season and were unbeaten in the league and in pole position to win a third consecutive league title. After captain Andrew Holmes (The Grove) suffered a serious knee injury against Eton just before Christmas, the team had to regroup. Max Little (Rendalls)

1st team squad

performed heroics in goal, earning himself a professional contract with QPR, and Tom Ward (West Acre), Will Holyoake (The Head Master’s) and Kit Davidson (Rendalls) all had outstanding seasons.

The 2nd XI had a barnstorming season, winning every game and scoring nearly five goals per game, while the Colts A and B exceeded expectations to compete at the top of their respective leagues. There remains excitement for the upcoming crop of players from the Remove and Shell who are talented, skilful and creative. – Alex Turner, Master-in-Charge

2nd team squad

Season statistics Team

P

W

D

L

GF

GA

GD

W%

D%

L%

1st XI

6

5

1

0

15

5

10

83

17

0

2nd XI

5

5

0

0

23

5

18

100

0

0

3rd XI

4

2

1

1

7

4

3

50

25

25

4th XI

5

5

0

0

22

5

17

100

0

0

5th XI

3

2

1

0

9

4

5

67

33

0

6th XI

4

3

1

0

14

5

9

75

25

0

Colts A

7

5

1

1

18

10

8

71

14

14

Colts B

7

4

3

0

20

10

10

57

43

0

Colts C

3

2

0

1

12

3

9

67

0

33

Colts D

3

3

0

0

14

4

10

100

0

0

Junior Colts A

7

5

1

1

24

11

13

71

14

14

Junior Colts B

8

6

1

1

22

10

12

75

13

13

Junior Colts C

2

1

1

0

6

4

2

50

50

0

Junior Colts D

3

3

0

0

23

3

20

100

0

0

Junior Colts E

1

1

0

0

3

2

1

100

0

0

Yearlings A

7

7

0

0

40

6

34

100

0

0

Yearlings B

6

6

0

0

23

5

18

100

0

0

Yearlings C

4

3

0

1

15

4

11

75

0

25

Yearlings D

4

3

0

1

21

3

18

75

0

25

Yearlings E

4

3

1

0

24

12

12

75

25

0

Yearlings F

2

2

0

0

13

2

11

100

0

0

95

76

12

7

368

117

11.95

80

12.63

7.37

TOTAL

SPORT Members of the squash squad

SQUASH This was always going to be a challenging year after the entire first team left in June 2019. There had been a long run of very successful and talented Harrow squash teams, but a rebuilding phase was now inevitable.

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lthough this meant that defeats were incurred against the current strong set-ups at Eton, Epsom and Aylesbury, there were close matches and some victories in the contests with Lancing, Brentwood, Radley, Wellington and Charterhouse. The School finished with a victory at Brentwood on 12 March before the boys went home due to the coronavirus. This meant that the Roehampton tournament was not played, which preserved Harrow’s proud record of never having been relegated from Division One. However, Harrow did not qualify for

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the National finals and had to make do with losing to Abingdon in the Plate competition.

Much depended on Tarquin Sotir (Druries) and Sasha Sebag-Montefiore (The Knoll), who filled positions 1 and 2 in the order, winning at least as many matches as they lost. The engine-room of the team were the joint captains Freddie Murley and Humza Qureshi (both The Park). They were utterly reliable in their commitment and devotion to Harrow squash. It was a big step up from second team squash but due to long hours of practice they both showed significant signs of improvement and were never a push-over down at numbers 4 and 5 in the order.

William Orr Ewing (Elmfield) usually played at number 3 in the order and he started in great form in September and October, only to rather lose his way when exams loomed in the Spring term. However, he was a real battler and showed welcome signs of a return to form before the enforced early end to the season. A big loss from the squad was Tiger Powell (The Grove) who missed most of the season due to a skiing injury. When any of the first five were not available, Fifth Formers Hanno Sie (Newlands) and Ilyas Qureshi (The Park) stepped up.

The Junior Colts had an excellent, close-knit squad and enjoyed a successful year. Tarquin Sotir often spearheaded the team at number 1 and he was backed up by the rapidly improving pair Alex Seely (The Grove) and Duncan Wauchope (The Knoll).

There were the equally determined Harry O’Shea (Druries), Dante Doros (Lyon’s) and Inigo Doyle (The Park) competing for places down the order. Occasional appearances

from Connor O’Flaherty (The Head Master’s) made the squad even stronger.

I have been privileged and honoured to have been associated with Harrow School squash since 1981 and can look back on many happy days both on the Old Courts (Ice Dome) and the New Courts (Airfix Dome).

– Simon Halliday, Master-In-Charge (1983–2020)

TENNIS

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lthough coronavirus meant that there was no School tennis in the Summer term, we introduced a winter training programme in the Spring term for top tennis players across all year groups. About 16 boys participated and had two one-hour sessions a week with an external coach. There was much positive feedback from the boys involved and we hope to continue this initiative.

– David Wendelken, Master-inCharge

92 93 SWIMMING The 2019/20 swimming season proved to be the most successful on record. The season started with our fourth trip to Mallorca for a preseason training camp just before the start of the Autumn term. With four of our new Shells attending this trip, the team were able to bond and find their team strategy for the season.

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uring the season, no fewer than 34 School records were broken, at least one in each gala. With our full-time professional coach Will Stokes at the helm, and the team captained by Thomas Khan (West Acre) and Andrew Hong (Lyon’s), the squad enjoyed a record number of regular participants. In competitions, Harrow were often able to field A, B, C and D teams at all age groups. Harrow swam in head-tohead galas against schools including Eton, Wellington, Dulwich, Abingdon, Reeds and Charterhouse, maintaining an unbeaten season throughout.

Harrow came in second place at the

Independent Schools Relay Championships at the Olympic Pool in Stratford. Although going into the finals seeded first, the boys were pipped into second at the touch.

Andrew Hong was selected to swim for the England Gifted and Talented programme, which culminated in an international competition in which he competed for Great Britain in Dubai.

Andrew also was the first-ever swimmer to be made Head of the Philathletic Club.

Seven of Harrow’s swimmers achieved times that either were recorded as ASA national qualifying times or were the equivalent.

Of the 34 records broken this year, Andrew Hong beat the School’s 5km and 10km records while taking part in the Long Ducker swim. He swam the 5km in 1 hour 17 seconds and the 10km in 2 hours, 4 minutes and 38 seconds.

Shell Nick Finch (Newlands) currently holds eight Shell records – the highest number of records held at one time – with records in various distances of freestyle, butterfly and individual medley.

– Rima Tremlett, Master-in-Charge

WATER POLO The School returned to the ESSA National Water Polo Competition for the second time in recent memory and held their own against some very experienced opponents, progressing into the Plate semi-final.

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arrow was also successful on the independent schools’ circuit, with stalemates against Charterhouse (5-5) and Oundle (6-6) and a victory over Stowe, which was more convincing than the 7-6 score line would suggest.

On Founder’s Day, we welcomed a good number of OH players back to the Hill in what was a physical test for the School. Well versed in the dirty tricks of the sport, the OHs made life very difficult for the home side, although they had issues dealing with the boys’ pace in the pool. The first three quarters were a tit-for-tat affair, with Finn Deacon (The Park) and Archie Hogben (Newlands) scoring a brace each. The School

The water polo team took on OHs on Founder’s Day

was sadly overwhelmed by the OHs’ superior shooting ability in the closing moments, but learnt a great many lessons playing against such experienced opposition.

There was also an exciting slate of matches in the inter-House competitions, with Newlands taking the trophy in the Torpid competition. Speech Day would have seen The Knoll and Newlands face off in the House final, but the match was sadly

scrubbed by the closure of the School.

For his tremendous contributions to the club over the last few years, Archie Hogben (Newlands) was awarded the Water Polo Player of the Year trophy. A rising star on the younger end of the team, Junior Water Polo Player of the Year was awarded to Jake Ramus (Lyon’s).

– William Seex, Master-in-Charge

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THE ARCHIVE Due to the global COVID-19 pandemic, the Archive ran remotely from March to September. In response to this new way of operating, we created a digital COVID-19 Archive Collection with the help of staff and boys across the School.

Skating on Ducker

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e were able to map the School’s endeavours to support the local community by creating PPE and distributing food supplies. We were also able to put together wonderful exhibitions of art and photography, created in digital lessons and through the work boys did at home, for 2020’s remote Speech Day. 2020 also marked the first steps in preparation for the 450th anniversary of the founding of Harrow School, and the Archive has an exciting part to play in these plans. With the aid of SDS, we created a ‘Harrow Faces’ portal containing the images from 14,000 glass-plate negatives dating from the 1880s to the 1960s in a collection unprecedented in independent schools. We hope to add to this site so that it soon houses all the 40,000 photographs in the collection, making historic photographs of the School, pupils, staff, sports and events accessible in one location for the first time.

We also intend to make all the digital archives easier to access online by putting

Monitors 1942

Art School

them together in one website.

Another project is the creation of facsimiles of School records such as the School seal. We have made some headway in the repairs to the manuscript collection and there are plans to salvage the collection of 120 historic bound photographic albums (which will be added to Harrow Faces) with the support of the Harrow Association.

– Tace Fox, Archivist and Records Manager

O Priaulx 1880–82

Byron House 1889

C N Hague 1911–15

The HDT supports the OSRG Conservator’s post

HERITAGE

OLD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY The OSRG involvement with the Super-Curriculum began in earnest in September 2019 with the teaching of a new Elective topic based on the School collections.

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emove boys learnt about famous Old Harrovians, the collections associated with them and aspects of collections care that equip them to understand how exhibitions are curated. Applications from Remove boys choosing to volunteer in the OSRG towards The Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Award rose significantly in the Autumn term as a result of the interest generated by the Elective.

The two OSRG exhibitions for the Autumn term were The Horse: an assessment of its role through the ages and From Reynolds to Matisse: treasures of the OSRG. The former was produced with considerable assistance from the boys, the latter enabled Matisse’s View of Corsica, acquired in 2015, to be displayed for the first time. The opening event of the Loyal to the Hill exhibition about OH Alexis Theodore Casdagli (The Grove 1920¹) was scheduled to take place one century to the day, 28 January 2020, when the 13-year-old Alexis arrived as a Shell on the Hill. The private view included a dramatic presentation comprising senior boys of the OSRG Art Society reading extracts from the young Casdagli’s diary, written exactly one hundred years before. For the first time, the OSRG produced object labels with quick response (QR) codes so that visitors with smartphones

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Portrait of Mrs Anne Andrews by Sir Joshua Reynolds, given by Christian Thwaites (The Grove 1971)

Casdagli used the OH tie design on his hand-embroidered POW bookmark

Portrait of Major A T Casdagli

by Dawyck, the 2nd Earl Haig, on loan from Anthony Casdagli

could discover more about the objects than the label text alone could reveal.

The programme of cleaning, conserving and remounting OSRG artworks continued, with the most significant being an oil painting made around 1870 by R E Wilkinson (presented in 1873 by Charles Haddock (The Park 1865²), Head of School in 1871), depicting the elm tree beside Mr Peachey’s monument in St Mary’s Churchyard. The dark and dirty canvas had not been exhibited for decades because of its poor condition. There were five, large holes at its centre, suggesting it had been used at some time as a dartboard. Dulce Ribeiro, the OSRG Paintings Conservator, chose the canvas as a long-term

Meiping vase, Harris loan

conservation project in 2018 and started by giving it a thorough clean. The process revealed the figure of a Victorian gentleman, gazing at the gravestone on which the young Lord Byron used to lie.

Just behind him, barely discernible, stands a figure of a Harrow schoolboy, complete with Harrow hat. The process also revealed a sublime sunset, with pink and purple clouds. Dulce’s unexpected death in May 2019 hit the curatorial team and the boys of the OSRG Art Society very hard.

The Paintings Restorer at Richmond upon Thames College, with whom Dulce had been conferring, offered to complete the restoration project in Dulce’s memory. The fully cleaned, restored and re-mounted

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Painting by R E Wilkinson after restoration

painting became one of the key exhibits in The Muse and the Maker exhibition.

Conservation projects completed by the OSRG’s Paper Conservator included the cleaning, repair and customised storage of the last group of Japanese prints and nine newly researched Chinese paintings, all given by W G Stirling (The Grove 1901) in 1943; the cleaning and repair of historic portrait frames around the School; and conservation and mounting of objects for the exhibition programmes. The OSRG also commissioned the re-upholstery of several historic chairs in the Alec Fitch Room, and the repair of damaged and defunct silver trophies for reassignment to new School societies.

A new resident to the Hill with close ties to the School commissioned three new trophies to add to the collection; the Harris family added more items to their loan of Chinese ceramics and sculpture; and Peter Beckwith (Elmfield 1958³) presented the gallery with more artworks from his collection; in total 36 objects were accessioned into the collection between September 2019 and April 2020.

– Julia Walton, Curator of the OSRG

Painting before restoration

HERITAGE

Football Rules!

Among the photographs in the Harrow School Archive was discovered what is believed to be perhaps the earliest photograph of a school soccer team. The Old Harrovian Football Club was formed in the same year that the photograph was taken, with Charles Alcock (Druries 18552), who was instrumental in the founding of the Football Association, as one of its members with several of the Harrovians in the photo continuing to play soccer after leaving school.

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n January 1859, a letter from ‘A Lover of Football’ was published on the School magazine The Portico (one incarnation of The Harrovian): ‘Would it not be much better if there were settled rules and laws for the game of football; – such as have been, for many years past, founded for the game of cricket?

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the few clubs that there are at present, might follow; which might be kept with the greatest strictness, and adhered to by all players…I sincerely wish that the laws could be changed, for boys would play with much more spirit and energy if they knew that there was some important match to be won every year...It is not improbable that if general laws were founded, more clubs would be formed in different parts of the kingdom; and the game, in course of time, would become of as much note as cricket is at the present time.’

A common set of rules had been created at a meeting at Cambridge in 1848 with representatives from Harrow, Eton, Rugby, Winchester and Shrewsbury, schools that all played their own version of football, so that ex-pupils of the different schools could play against each other. Another attempt was made to draw up common rules in 1856. In November 1862, a football match took place at Cambridge between a team of Old Etonians and a team of Old Harrovians, with a set of rules drawn up specifically for this match. The Tyro (another incarnation of The Harrovian) of 1 November 1963 contains a letter from one of the young men in the photograph, J A Cruikshank, and a copy of those rules, which mix features of the Eton and Harrow rules: ‘Sir, As the question of universal Football rules is now under discussion, it may interest some of your readers to know that a match was played at Cambridge, last November, between Eleven Harrovians and Eleven Etonians, according to rules drawn up for the occasion by a committee. These rules were observed without any difficulty… I enclose the rules: they may seem overparticular in details, but it was necessary to provide against the possibility of dispute.

I remain, Sir, yours JAC

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On 17 October 1863, a new set of rules was drawn up at Cambridge by a committee of players representing Shrewsbury, Eton, Rugby, Marlborough, Harrow and Westminster. Those rules had a direct influence on the rules drawn up by the fledgling Football Association a few weeks later, on 1 December.

Two members of that committee appear in the Harrow football photo: J T Prior and letter-writer J A Cruikshank.

Most of the young men who appear in the photograph did not make any particular splash in the world but followed careers that were fairly typical for Harrovians – the law, politics or the Army. A few led distinguished lives; others are interesting because of their association with more notable people.

G K Webster at Invercrean House in Argyllshire © NRS

W C MASTER Thomas William Chester Master (The Park 18552) left Harrow for Christ Church College, Oxford, before joining the army, where he reached the rank of major. He followed his father as MP for Cirencester in 1878, a seat he held until the parliamentary borough was abolished in 1885. He stood for parliament again in 1892, contesting the Cirencester division of Gloucestershire, but the vote was tied, and he lost the seat at the by-election in 1893. He died in 1914 at the age of 73.

G K WEBSTER George Kennedy Webster (The Head Master’s 18532) was one of 11 children, three of whom attended Harrow. His father

Arnos Grove, home of the Walker family

was a Scottish parliamentary agent at Westminster and counted both William Thackeray and the artist John Cruikshank among his friends. George’s mother, was heiress to a sugar plantation in Jamaica.

During George’s early years, the family lived at Sudbury Priory on the Watford Road, but in 1850 Margaret lost her inheritance and the family had to move to the more modest Roxeth Villa on Lower Road, overlooking the Harrow cricket fields. After leaving Harrow in 1860, George became a barrister and joined the Indian Civil Service in 1863 as Assistant Magistrate to the Collector at Cuttuck, Bengal. He left the Indian Civil Service in 1868 on an invalid pension,

possibly because he was going blind, and went to live at Invercrean House in Argyllshire. He died in 1926.

R D WALKER Russell Donnithorne Walker (Small Houses and Mr Oxenham’s 18551) was one of seven cricket-playing brothers, all of whom went to Harrow. The family fortune was built through the brewing company Taylor Walker and the family home was Arnos Grove in Southgate. The brothers were founders of Southgate Cricket Club in 1855 and Middlesex County Cricket Club in 1864, and were instrumental in establishing the home of the county at Lord’s in 1877. The club’s cricket ground at Southgate is called The Walker Ground and is still maintained by the Walker Trust. Four of the brothers played in the United All-England Eleven. Russell left Harrow in 1860 and went to Brasenose College, Oxford, where he attained blues every year between 1861 and 1865. After graduating, he studied law at Lincoln’s Inn and was called to the bar in 1871.

He represented Middlesex 45 times between 1862 and 1877. His best season was 1865 when he recorded 770 runs. He served as President of Middlesex from 1907 until his death, aged 80, in 1922. Not only was he gifted at cricket and football, he was also described as one of the best early amateur rackets players.

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G R DAVIES There is scant information about George Reynolds Davies (Mr E H Vaughan’s 18573).

He left Harrow in 1860 and joined the merchants George Fraser Son & Co in Manchester, who were primarily shippers of cotton goods, and was a Justice of the Peace in Cheshire.

Professor of Fine Art at Cambridge University, he established the School of Architectural Studies.

John Prior was a strong force in local opposition to the reforms of the Public Schools Act 1868 that would prevent local residents from benefiting from the Statutes of Harrow’s Royal Charter, which allowed for the free education of boys from the parish of Harrow on the Hill.

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John Templer Prior (The Park and Home Boarders 18551) was one of the two Old Harrovians present at the meeting in 1863 that established the rules of the Cambridge University Football Club. John’s father died young and the family moved to Harrow to take advantage of the reduced fees offered to the sons of local residents. John’s mother bought the house known as Roxeth Mead, next door to the poet Matthew Arnold, where she established a small school, the predecessor of the existing school of the same name. In 1860, he went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, and was called to the bar in 1866. He settled in Harrow and married a local girl, Louisa Lang, whose family owned the Red House at the bottom of Byron Hill Road, which is now part of John Lyon School. When Louisa eventually inherited the Red House, he commissioned his younger brother, Edward Schroeder Prior, to remodel it. Edward, who also went to Harrow, was an influential architect and was instrumental in the establishment of the Arts and Crafts movement. He designed a number of buildings in and around Harrow, most notably the Music School. He wrote extensively on architecture, art, craftsmanship and the building process, and is best known for his work A History of Gothic Art in England (1900). He became one of the leading architectural educationalists of the time; as Slade

Like several of the other members of the team, Henry Lewis Williams (Home Boarders 18572) went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, on leaving Harrow in 1861. He took Holy Orders and became a vicar, first at Holy Trinity in Bingley in Yorkshire, and then at St Mary’s Church in Bleasby in Nottinghamshire, where he remained for 22 years. The church contains a memorial window to him designed by Christopher Whall, a leader in the Arts and Crafts movement and a key figure in the modern history of stained glass.

The Red House, home of J T Prior

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Percy Melville Thornton

St Leonard’s Church, Sandridge, where J A Cruickshank became vicar

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A W T DANIEL Arthur William Trollope Daniel (Druries 18543) was an all-round athlete. At Harrow, he was captain of cricket and was notable for scoring 112 not out against Eton in 1860. He went to Trinity College, Cambridge, representing the university at cricket and rackets, and was a founder member of the Cambridge University Athletic Club, running in the hurdles for Cambridge at the first inter-university sports match in 1864. He was called to the bar but died of tuberculosis in 1873. Donations for a memorial to him in the Chapel at Harrow, were made by Old Harrovian members of Middlesex County Cricket Club, but this memorial seems to have been lost.

Photograph by Benjamin Stone 1898 © NPG

Captain of the team James Alexander Cruikshank (Mr E H Vaughan’s 18543) was Head of School in 1859 and went up to Trinity College, Cambridge, in 1860.

He was one of the men who were instrumental in drawing up the rules which were so influential on the early FA. He returned to Harrow as a Master in 1866, becoming House Master of a Small House.

He left Harrow in 1891 to become Vicar of St Leonard’s Church in Sandridge in Hertfordshire. It was his House that a young Winston Churchill was keen to enter when he joined Harrow. He wrote to his mother in February 1888: ‘I hope it has been arranged which house I am to go to; I want to go to “Crookshank’s” as I know a boy there & would like to be with him. I am working hard – very hard – to get in – I only hope that my efforts will be rewarded.’

Sadly, this ambition was not to be realised.

P M THORNTON Percy Melville Thornton (The Grove 18561) was the grandson of abolitionist MP Samuel Thornton, who was a Director and briefly Governor of the Bank of England.

Samuel’s two brothers were also MPs and all three were members of the Clapham Sect of social reformers. Percy left Harrow in 1860 for Jesus College, Cambridge. An accomplished athlete, he became secretary of the Cambridge University Athletic Club.

He was also a keen cricketer and was Honorary Secretary of the Middlesex County Cricket Club from 1871–99. In 1892, following in his grandfather and uncles’ footsteps, he became an MP, representing Clapham. He also had a successful writing career, producing the

three-volume Foreign Secretaries of the Nineteenth Century (1891), Harrow School and its Surroundings (1883), The Brunswick Ascension (1887), The Stuart Dynasty (1890) and Some Things We Have Remembered, an account of his life and that of his father, Rear Admiral Samuel Thornton. His cousin, Charles Inglis Thornton, is generally considered to have been the longest hitter cricket has ever known. In the Eton v Harrow match at Lord’s in 1868, he drove a ball over the pavilion. His biggest hit is said to have occurred when he was practising before a match at Brighton and hit the ball over the entrance gate to the ground and into the road, a distance of at least 160 yards.

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R D ELPHINSTONE Robert Dalrymple-Horn-Elphinstone 3rd Baronet Elphinstone-Dalrymple of Horn and of Logie (The Grove 18553) is another member of the team about whom there is little information. He left Harrow in 1860.

He died in 1887 at the age of 45 and was buried at West Brompton Cemetery in London. His obituary in Cricket: A Weekly Record of the Game reports: ‘He was also a good football player, being an active member of the Wanderers in its earlier days.’

Fawley Court, home of Edward Mackenzie

After leaving Harrow, Edward Philippe Mackenzie (Small Houses 18553) went up to St John’s College, Oxford, before joining the army. He was said to be a skilled and enthusiastic amateur actor who on one occasion performed before the Queen Mother at the Theatre Royal in Brighton. Later, he became Colonel Commanding Suffolk Yeomanry and High Sheriff of Suffolk.

His uncle, William Mackenzie, was one of the most important figures in 19th-century civil engineering. His firm Mackenzie and Brassey, in which Edward’s father was also employed, was, according to the Institute

of Civil Engineers, the ‘largest contracting firm in the world’ in the early days of the railways.

Edward’s father inherited his brother William’s immense fortune. He bought Fawley Court, in Surrey, which was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and described as ‘abounding with valuable paintings and works of art.’

Edward was his father’s heir and inherited both Fawley Court, reputed to have been Kenneth Grahame’s inspiration for Toad Hall in The Wind in the Willows, and Downham Hall in Suffolk. He eventually moved to Sussex Square in Brighton where he died in September 1929.

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MONITORS Andrew Holmes, Sch., Sch.(Sport) (The Grove) – Head of School † Alex Leung, Sch., Sch.(Sport) (Lyon’s) – Deputy Head of School * Ire Ajibade, Sch. (The Grove) * Kit Akinluyi, Sch. (The Head Master’s) Francis Bamford, Sch.(Art), Sch.(Mus.) (Bradbys) Philipp Benigni (Newlands) * Calum Butler, Sch. (The Knoll) * Ben Davies, Sch. (The Grove) Finn Deacon (The Park) Michael Fitzgibbon, Sch.(Mus.) (Rendalls) * Alexander Harris (Bradbys) * Otto Heffer, Sch. (Elmfield) Archie Heilpern (The Knoll) Andrew Hong, Sch., Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s) Thomas Khan, Sch., Sch.(OT) (West Acre) * Eugene Kim, Sch., Exh.(Mus.) (West Acre) Harry Kyd, Sch. (The Park) * Lawrence Leekie, Sch. (West Acre) Harry Lempriere-Johnson, Exh.(Mus.) (Druries) * George Mingay, Sch. (The Park) Nic Neal, Sch.(Sport) (Moretons) * Long Hei Ng, Sch. (Newlands) Panav Patel, Sch., Sch.(OT) (Elmfield) Théodore Seely, Sch. (The Head Master’s) * Henry Wilson, Sch., Sch.(OT) (Elmfield) *

THE PHILATHLETIC CLUB Philipp Benigni (Newlands) Andrew Hong, Sch., Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s) – Head Max Little, Sch.(Sport) (Rendalls) Nic Neal, Sch.(Sport) (Moretons ) Rishi Wijeratne, Sch.(OT) (The Head Master’s) Tom Ward (West Acre)

THE GUILD Harry Lempriere-Johnston, Exh.(Mus.) (Druries) – Head Kit Akinluyi, Sch. (The Head Master’s) Francis Bamford, Sch.(Art), Sch.(Mus.) (Bradbys) Jack Chen, Sch., Sch.(Art) (Rendalls) Brian Chiang, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (The Grove) Leo Cho (Rendalls) Ben Davies, Sch. (The Grove) Michael Fitzgibbon, Sch.(Mus) (Rendalls) Leopold Florescu (The Head Master’s) Joshua Harris, Sch.(Mus.) (West Acre) Jonny Kajoba, Sch., Sch.(Dra.), Exh.(Mus.) (Lyon’s) Kingston Lee, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Elmfield) Louis Malhamé, Sch.(Art), Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) (The Head Master’s) Columbus Mason, Sch., Sch.(OT) (The Head Master’s) Archie Ross (The Knoll)

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THE HEAD MASTER’S Toni Alaka Felix Boegh-Nielsen Jenson Christie Harry Duckworth Charlie Griffin Ashton Kong Josh Marcon James Middle Ollie Proctor Vincent Song Will Stabb William Wang Oscar Wickham Ethan Yeo Kiefer Yeo Ulrico Zampa Tamir Zolboo

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LISTINGS

SPEECH DAY PRIZES IN 2020 SHELL PRIZES Alexander Adefarasin

The Shell Art Prize

Jude Esposito, Sch.

The Remove Theology and Philosophy Prize

Toni Alaka, Sch.

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Shell Prize

Maxi Gardner, Sch.(Art)

The Remove Art Prize

Keith Au-Yeung, Exh.(Mus.)

The Ottley Shell Prize for English

Hansen Han, Sch.

The Balme Remove Prize for Latin

Harry Burt

The Lawrence Junior Singing Prize

The Siddons Prize for Mathematics

Michael Guo

The Shell Art Prize

Hadrian Ho, Sch.(Mus.)

The Smouha Prize for Chamber Music

Man Herman Hong, Exh.(Mus.)

The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry

Thomas Hobbs, Sch.

The Winkley Remove Prize for English

The Jonathan Head Barrow Shell Prize for Short Story

Casper Kingsley

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Remove Prize

June Hyun

The Affleck Prize for Shell Greek

Kieran Yan Ho Leung, Sch.(Mus.)

The Smouha Prize for Chamber Music

Netanel Lawrence-Ojo

The Head Master’s Shell Prize for Learnt Poetry

Chris Liu, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Bourchier Remove Prize for History

Rob McCorquodale

The Elaine Davis Cup for the Most Improved Piper

The Siddons Prize for Mathematics

Fergus McKie, Sch.(Mus.)

The Bourchier Shell Prize for History

Connor O’Flaherty, Sch., Sch.(Sport) The Geoffrey Simmonds Remove Prize for Computing

The Shell Family Prize for Treble Voice

The Richard Fuchs Prize

Mackenzie Morgan

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

The Viscountess Strangford Junior Prize for Geography

The Society of American Military Engineers Prize

Harry O’Shea, Sch.

The Jonathan Head Barrow Remove Prize for Short Story

Sebastian Murray, Exh.(Mus.)

The Raymond Warren Prize for Organ

Jay Raithatha, Sch.

The Winkley Remove Prize for English

Charlie Nelson

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Shell Prize for Spanish

Shrey Rawal, Sch.(Sport)

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Remove Prize for Spanish

Misha Newington

The Morwood Shell Prize for Latin

Henry Ridley

The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry

Alexander Newman, Sch.

The Maharaj Singh Prize for Indian History

The Clementi Collard Prize for Imperial History

The Randall Prize for History

Jiho Ro, Sch.

The Balme Remove Prize for Greek

The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science

The Leonard Walton Remove French Prize

Charlie Ni

The Winkley Shell First Prize for English

Elliott Taylor, Sch.(Sport)

The Remove Art Prize

Michel Quist, Sch.

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Shell Prize

Jimmy Turner

The Remove Geography Prize

The Tower Prize for History

Henry Woodcock, Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Remove Prize for Music

The Verney Shell Prize for French

The Raymond Warren Prize for Organ

The Winkley Shell Second Prize for English

Hector Rogberg, Sch.(Sport)

The Coward Shell Prize for History

FIFTH FORM PRIZES

Freddie Sloss

The Shell Geography Prize

Hing So

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

The Lady Bourchier Junior Reading Prize

The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science

Vincent Song

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

The Shell Prize for Physics

The Shell Theology and Philosophy Prize

The Paul Lewis Junior Science Lecture Prize

Brandon Tam, Sch.

The Botfield Shell Prize for German

Henry Webster, Sch., Sch.(DT)

The Ian Beer Shell Biology Prize

The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting

The Shell Prize for Chemistry

Oscar Wickham, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Morwood Shell Prize for Greek

Michael Chiimba The Mark Maples Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Lower School

The Shell Mathematics Prize

Tiger Dai

The Fifth Form Biology Prize

The Siddons Prize for Mathematics

Charlie de Labilliere

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Tamir Zolboo

The Shell Prize for Russian

George Ferguson, Sch.(OT)

The Dudley Gordon Prize for Design Technology

Max Ferreira, Sch.(OT)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Ehiada Garuba, Sch.(OT)

The Coward Fifth Form Prize for History

The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize

Hugo Heffer

The Whitworth Conservation Prize

Edos Herwegh Vonk, Sch.

The Colomb Prize for Naval History

The Fifth Form Prize for Chemistry

Tomas Kemp, Sch.(Art)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Graham Lambert, Sch.(Mus.)

The Worshipful Company of Musicians Junior Brass Prize

Lucas Maia

The E D Laborde Fifth Form Geography Prize

Issah Merchant, Sch.

The Dalton Prize for Mathematics

Edward Pagani

The Intermediate Singing Prize

Max Paton-Smith, Sch.(Drama)

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Solo Singing

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise

Arthur Pilkington, Sch.

The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Greek

Archie Powell

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

Samuel Quist

The Verney Fifth Form Prize for French

Jake Ramus

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Fifth Form Prize for Spanish

Jun Wha Shin, Sch.(Mus.)

The James Poke Prize for Woodwind

The Walmisley Junior Prize for Organ

Daniel Sidhom, Sch.(Mus.)

The Bourchier Fifth Form Prize for History

William Tate

The Kingsley Prize for Design Technology

Theo Tomlinson, Sch.(Drama)

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise

REMOVE PRIZES Aum Amin, Sch.

The Adam Prize for History

The Dr R A Robinson Prize for Practical Science

The Head Master’s Remove Prize for Learnt Poetry

The Notting Dale Remove Prize for Geography Fieldwork

The Remove Prize for Chemistry

The Remove Prize for Science

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Remove Prize

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Monty Behar-Sheehan

The Remove Prize for Astronomy

Nurali Bibolat

The Coward Remove Prize for History

Liron Chan, Sch.

The Head Master’s Send Up Prize

The Leaf Remove Prize for Physics

The Parsonson Remove Prize for Mathematics

The Remove Biology Prize

The Remove Prize for Russian

Arsène Cherpion

The Fox Talbot Junior Prize

Matthew Chin, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Parsonson Remove Prize for Mathematics

The Siddons Prize for Mathematics

The Smouha Prize for Chamber Music

The Snell Prize for Mathematics

Charlie Cross

The Vaux Huggett Remove Prize for German

Sean Doughty

The Remove Prize for Ancient History

Aakash Aggarwal, Sch.

The Geoffrey Simmonds Fifth Form Prize for Computing

The Ottley Prize for Shakespeare

Phoenix Ashworth, Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.)

The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize

Jonathan Barley, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Fifth Form Prize for Italian

Edward Blunt

The Fifth Form Prize for Russian

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Fifth Form Prize

Brandon Chang, Sch.

The Fifth Form Prize for Astronomy

The Fifth Form Theology and Philosophy Prize

The Leaf Fifth Form Prize for Physics

The Lower Crawford Prize for Mathematics

Daniel Chang

The Angus Thompson Prize for History

George Townshend The Jonathan Head Barrow Fifth Form Prize for Short Story

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Marcus Tung

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Freddie Strange, Sch.(OT)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The Vaux Huggett Fifth Form Prize for German

Q Sun, Sch.

The Parsonson Prize for Mathematics

William Wauchope, Sch.

The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Latin

The Prior Prize for Theology and Philosophy

Apollo Wilkins

The Farr Prize for Design Technology

Patrick Tallentire

The Rupert Shaw Prize for Chemistry

Max Wilson

The Habsburg Prize for History and Politics

Gareth Tan, Sch.

The Christopher Cooke Prize for English Literature

Dylan Winward, Sch.

The Dodd Prize for Oratory

Dylan Winward, Sch.

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

The Head Master’s Lower Sixth Form Prize for Learnt Poetry

Joseph Wragg, Sch.(Mus.)

The Augustus Fleet Fifth Form Prize for Poetry

Henry To, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Hyde Thomson Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Briscoe Eyre Fifth Form Prize for Music

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

The MacPherson Fifth Form Prize for Ancient History

George Webster, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Fifth Form Prize

Cameron Yarrow The Halliday Prize for All-round Geographical Contributions

David Xu, Sch.

The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting

Cody Xu, Sch.

The Japanese Prize

The Lockett Junior Prize for Pianoforte

James Yuen, Sch., Exh.(Mus.) Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Jonathan Yuan, Sch.(Mus.)

The Campbell Prize for Junior Strings

LOWER SIXTH FORM PRIZES Sultan Aben The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Lower Sixth Form Prize

Kevin Zheng, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Photography

The Snell Prize for Mathematics

UPPER SIXTH FORM PRIZES Abdulla Abdulla-Zada, Sch.

The Botfield Upper Sixth Form Prize for German

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

Ben Ahrens

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

Ire Ajibade, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Adam Ait El Caid, Sch.

The Harvard Book Prize

Kit Akinluyi, Sch.

The Spicer Prize for Theology and Philosophy

The Prior Prize for French

The Technical Theatre Prize

Arvind Asokan, Sch.

The National Westminster Bank Prize for Economics

Freddy Anton-Smith

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Snell Prize for Mathematics

Adam Auret, Sch.(OT)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

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

The Briscoe Eyre Upper Sixth Form Prize for Music

Patrick Breeze, Sch.

The Angus Sixsmith Prize for Piping

The Charles Lillingston Prize for History

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Language

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Language

The Pember Prize for Best Lower Sixth Classicist

The Walter Frith Prize for English

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Oskar Bulstrode

The Sir Percival Marling Prize for Design Technology

Tim Carden

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Andrew Cheung, Sch.

The Geoffrey Simmonds Prize for Economics

Jack Chen, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Calcutt Prize for Art History

Bertie Clayton

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

The St Helier Prize for English Literature

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Brian Chiang, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The A W Hill Prize for Chemistry

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Ryan Cullen, Sch. The Lower Sixth Form Theology and Philosophy Research Prize Caleb Efemuai

The Dr R A Robinson Prize for Practical Science

Federico Greaves

The Fortescue Lower Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Maximilian Gu, Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Olly Harrison, Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(Sport) The Viscountess Strangford Senior Prize for Geography

The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir

The Stenhouse Prize for Woodwind Instruments

Arion Beckett, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

The Wallace and Walton Prize for Strings

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Leo Cho, Sch.

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Junseok Choi, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The A W Hill Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

The Salters’ Company Prize for Chemistry

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

The Upper Crawford Prize for Mathematics

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

Richard Hayward, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Jake Henson

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The St Helier Prize for English Literature

Rufus Hunter

The Business Prize

Jan Kryca

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Philipp Letman, Sch.

The Vaux Huggett Lower Sixth Form Prize for German

Shubh Malde, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The Viscountess Strangford Prize for Geography

Finlay Matheson, Sch.

The Taylor Higginson Prize for Spanish

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Fynn Maydon

The Bourchier Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Ahsab Chowdhury

The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Medicine

Eddie Clark

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Ben Davies, Sch.

The Alastair McLean Prize for Drama

Finn Deacon

The Harry Shapland Prize for Drama

The Macnamara Prize for Geography The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Alexander Morrison The Harry Watts General Knowledge Lower Sixth Form Prize

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Ancient History

Krish Nigam, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Beddington Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Snell Prize for Mathematics

George Phillips, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Ernest Cater Prize for Natural History

The Lower Sixth Form History of Art Prize

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Myles Dismont Robinson, Sch., Sch.(Art), Sch.(OT)

The Ralph Moore Senior Prize for Handwriting

Justin Donohugh, Sch.(Sport)

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Bilal Rashid, Sch.

The Thanawalla Prize for Economics

William Dutton, Sch.(OT)

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Charles Read

The Eustace Prize for Biology

Eugene Kim, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Joseph Fan

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Daniel Sandell, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Lower Sixth Form Prize for Music

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The James Poke Prize for Music Composition

The Coward Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

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

Sasha Sebag-Montefiore

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

Leopold Florescu

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Max Sjostrom

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Politics

Tom Gianasso

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

LISTINGS

Jim Griffin, Sch., Sch.(OT)

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Long Hei Ng, Sch.

Sean Hargraves, Sch.

British Physics Olympiad Gold Award

Joshua Harris, Sch.(Mus.)

The Verney Prize for Pianoforte

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Otto Heffer, Sch.

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Archie Heilpern

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

George Herron, Sch.

The Leonard Walton Upper Sixth Form French Prize

The Ralph Moore Prize for Greek Literature

Arvind Hirdaramani, Sch.

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

George Ho, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Andrew Hong, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Tommy Nguyen, Sch.

The Baron Boulos Prize for Economics

The Verney Prize for Argument

Sam O’Dell, Sch.

The Coward Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The Mavrogordato Prize for Ancient History

Panav Patel, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Bourchier Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The McIntosh Prize for History

Hugh Pearson

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Thomas Placintescu, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Mass Praditbatuga, Sch.

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Humza Qureshi, Sch.

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Julien Robson, Sch.

The Russell Prize for Shakespeare

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Sui Ittipakorn

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Archie Ross The Christie-Murray Prize for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts

Jonny Kajoba, Sch., Sch.(Dra.)

The Lady Bourchier Senior Reading Prize

Alex Saunders, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Exeter Prize for Biology

The Terence Rattigan Prize

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

Eugene Kim, Sch., Exh.(Mus.) Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Paddy Kinnaird

The Charles Laborde Prize for Geography

Harry Saunders, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

The Neeld Prize for Mathematics

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Harry Kyd, Sch.

The Williams Prize for Biology

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Théodore Seely, Sch. The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Kingston Lee, Sch., Sch.(Mus)

The Lucas Prize for Brass Instruments

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Lawrence Leekie, Sch.

The Japanese Prize

Harry Lempriere-Johnston, Exh.(Mus.) The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

The Oliver Sichel Prize for Singing

The Sebastian Graham-Jones Prize for Drama

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Robert Litton

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Archie Mackenzie-Smith

The Ralton Prize for Business Studies

Louis Malhamé, Exh.(Mus.), Sch.(Art), Sch.(OT)

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

Muhtasim Mannan, Sch.

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Archie Martine

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian

The Guy Butlin Prize for Spanish

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Politics

Naman Sharma, Sch.(AR), Sch.(Sport) The Angad Paul Prize for Economics

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Adil Shaydullin, Sch.

The Chinese Prize

The Pigou Prize for Economics

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

Sam Shi, Sch., Sch.(DT)

The Baker Prize for Mathematics

British Physics Olympiad Gold Award

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition Nick Shishkarev, Sch.

The Chinese Prize

Vir Singh

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Trevor Tang, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Raef Tanner The Jonathan Head Barrow Sixth Form Prize for Short Story

HARROW RECORD

Columbus Mason, Sch., Sch.(OT) The Warwick-Smith Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Rattigan Society

The Neville Burston Prize for Art

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Alex Walker, Sch.

The Stenhouse Prize for Woodwind Instruments

Hamish McCreanor, Sch.

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

Henry Wilson, Sch., Sch.(OT)

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Aidan Wood

The Gaskell Prize for Photography

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

George Wooding

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

George Mingay, Sch. The Hirdaramani Prize for Exemplary Commitment to Service in the Local Community

Aidan Wood

The Fox Talbot Senior Prize

Alexander Leung, Sch., Sch.(Sport)

The Head Master’s Prize

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Freddie Murley, Sch.

The A W Hill Prize for Biology

Andrew Holmes, Sch., Sch.(Sport)

The Head Master’s Prize

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Upper Sixth Form Prize

The Hyde Thomson Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

Theodore Nash

The Paul Lewis Senior Science Lecture Prize

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

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Ryan Ng The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Upper School

The Duke of Edinburgh’s Gold Award

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WEDDINGS | RECEPTIONS | PARTIES | DINNERS | PERFORMANCES | CORPORATE EVENTS

FOUNDATION FAMILY

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Harrow Association carol service

HARROW ASSOCIATION A GLOBAL OH COMMUNITY

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Ten Years On reunion

ld Harrovian engagement with the School, and with each other, continues to grow and thrive through the work of the Harrow Association (HA).

The HA helps support and connect Harrovians of all generations, wherever they are in the world, helping them maintain lifelong connections with the School and with each other.

The HA works with the Governors, Head Master and Harrow Development Trust to ensure the continuing success and prosperity of the School.

The work of the HA is focused on three core areas: Community, Careers and Employability and Heritage.

Rendalls House Dinner

COMMUNITY KEEPING OLD HARROVIANS CONNECTED

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upporting and connecting the global OH community is core to the work of the HA and our usual programme of events, including three House dinners – for Rendalls, The Park and The Grove – two HA Songs at the School, a Christmas carol service, two career networking evenings, a Forty Years On Dinner, Founder’s Day and several international dinners in Australia, South Africa, Singapore and Hong Kong were able to go ahead before the COVID-19 restrictions were imposed in the spring.

The OH community is as strong as ever and the numbers attending the dinners and gatherings that were able to take place in 2019/20 were greater than ever. In the latter part of the year, with events unable to take place, business and social connections being made through the OH online networking platform OH Connect continued to rise, with OHs supporting each other through these difficult times.

In addition to this, numerous OH clubs and society gatherings and activities

The Batting family at The Park House Dinner

brought together various like-minded members of the OH community, catering to a wide range of interests. Two new societies were founded: the OH Shaftesbury Enterprise Society was launched in September 2019 with the inaugural Long Ducker Bike Ride, in which many OHs took part, raising money for local partnership charities and the OH Wellbeing Society,

founded in early 2020, bringing together OHs interested in and working in all areas of wellbeing.

As we move towards celebrating the 450th anniversary of the School’s foundation in 2022, we look forward to engaging further with the global OH community through a wide-ranging programme of events and activities.

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CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY CAREER SUPPORT FOR CURRENT HARROVIANS AND OHS

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s in previous years, the HA worked alongside Michael Wright, the School’s Careers Advisor employed jointly by the School and the HA, to organise the annual Careers Convention in January.

Many generous OHs, parents and friends of the School gave up a Sunday evening to return to the Hill and offer their insight and expertise to Fifth and Sixth Form boys, along with students from local schools.

The HA Careers Talks programme continued throughout the first half of the year, with OH speakers from a wide variety of commercial industries and backgrounds.

In September, a number of recent

Careers Convention

university graduates attended our Career Networking Evening at the Oriental Club.

The event, which focused on finance, law, property and technology, was a great success and, while plans for another

networking evening in different fields were postponed in the Summer term, this is something we hope to programme in as soon as we are able.

HA Songs

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ngoing support for minor heritage projects around the School remains a key aspect of the work of the HA and we continue to work closely with the Harrow School Archive, the Old Speech Room Gallery, Vaughan Library and the Estates Department to ensure the preservation and conservation of Harrow’s traditions and heritage.

The HA was grateful for generous donations of Harrovian memorabilia from OHs and passed them on to the Archive and OSRG for preservation.

We continue to support and finance the various Harrow digital archives and look forward to a project next year to enhance these in the lead up to the School’s 450th anniversary.

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 (for OHs only) View The Harrovian archive at theharrovian.org Learn about multi-generational Harrow families at harrowfamilies.daisy.websds.net 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) James de BroĂŤ-Ferguson (The Grove 19813) Will Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 19983) Director Perena Shryane ha@harrowschool.org.uk Alumni Officer Shama Alimohamed alimohamedsp@harrowschool.org.uk The Grove House Dinner

Communications Officer Jessica Bellringer bellringerjr@harrowschool.org.uk Data and Information Officer Chelsea Caterer catererc@harrowschool.org.uk

SUPPORTING SUCCESS, WHATEVER THEIR ENDEAVOUR

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t is always encouraging to receive news of OH achievements, and the HA is committed to researching, recording and supporting OH activities, whatever they may be. 2019/20 was no exception, with OHs playing for their

country in various sports, receiving HM The Queen’s New Year and Birthday Honours, breaking records, founding companies and undertaking numerous charitable endeavours.

Database and Research Officer Emma Pinto pintoel@harrowschool.org.uk Financial Secretary Cece Walker / Debbie Hannaway hadtaccountant@harrowschool.org.uk Careers Advisor Michael Wright wrightmd@harrowschool.org.uk

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HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST

A YEAR IN DEVELOPMENT

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Last year, I reflected on the array of issues that, over time, can threaten the fortune of the School. Few of us could have predicted, a year ago, that COVID-19 would sweep around the world.

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ot least of the year’s achievements was the renovation of the ‘old’ rackets court. While disappointing that we have been unable to hold a celebration and exhibition to express our gratitude to the many OH contributors and former players, it is a delight that the court is now named after two OH stalwarts of the game, Charles Hue Williams (Bradbys 1956²) and John Prenn (The Head Master’s 1966³).

We were pleased to support the endeavours of the Shaftesbury Enterprise programme and help deliver £60,000 in grants to local organisations in urgent need during the pandemic. Nearly £400,000 was collected in the form of hardship funds from current parents donating their Summer-term fee reductions in order to protect the places of boys at Harrow through bursary funding. A considerable portion of donors’ funding continues to support bursary awards offered to deserving and talented boys.

We look forward to the projects planned for 2022 to coincide with the 450th anniversary of the School’s foundation. Foremost of these will be an extensive refurbishment of the Shepherd Churchill Hall, together with replacing the out-of-date Science Schools with an imaginative new centre for Chemistry and Biology. Both projects are estimated to cost £55 million (of this, nearly 40% is already held in readiness).

A particularly exciting project is the installation in Old Schools of a specialised hub for teaching, learning, AI and cognitive studies, combining the iconic and original School building with ‘world-ready’ educational practices for the remainder of the 21st century.

Chiefly during these unusual and testing times, however, I join the Trustees of the HDT in praising and thanking all our many generous supporters and donors for their continuing and valuable support.

– Douglas Collins, Chief Executive

The new Prenn Hue WIlliams Court

he full renovation of Druries was completed in readiness for the boys’ return in September, and The Grove extension was also completed, allowing us to proceed with the next phase of works, which will see parts of the existing House remodelled. Both projects were funded by donations from parents and OHs. Ongoing contributions through our regular giving fund have enabled a muchneeded refurbishment of Moretons and the transformation of some of the important communal areas of the House, including the Lower and Upper Sixth Form common rooms, library, changing rooms and gym. In addition, the resurfacing of Elmfield and Bradbys’ five-a-side multi-use pitches have provided great satisfaction to Harrovians returning to the Hill after many months of remote learning.

Beckwith Scholar and Head of School Andrew Holmes with Head of Classics Steven Kennedy

BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

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he HDT continued to expand the School’s bursary provision in 2020, enabling the School to offer financial support to more boys than ever. Last year, the HDT raised £3.1m for bursaries, helping to fund 96 boys (75 of whom benefit from bursaries worth more than 50%) during the year.

We are proud that 2019/20 Head of School Andrew Holmes (The Grove), the fifth Peter Beckwith Scholar to hold the position, achieved 5A*s at A level and has accepted his offer to study Mathematics at Harvard University in the US.

Looking forward, raising funds for bursaries is one of the HDT’s key aims and we launched Churchill Places, a new bursary scheme that will offer a Harrow education to boys who demonstrate characteristics of personal courage, wide-ranging thinking and a global outlook, and who require financial assistance to come to the School.

The first Churchill Place holder arrived at the School in September 2020, and it is our intention to fund up to four Churchill Place holders per year by 2025.

YOUR LEGACY

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he HDT is grateful to OHs and the families of OHs who have chosen to leave a gift in their will and from whom the School bursary funds have benefited this year. Family members will be invited to a tree planting ceremony in the School grounds as soon as we are able.

LONG DUCKER AND COVID-19 RELIEF

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n autumn 2019, income from Long Ducker reached £163,380 (a new record) and was distributed 50% to Harrow Spear, 25% to the Harrow Club and a further 25% to local organisations and community partners. In addition, special efforts were made to support local organisations during the Covid lockdown periods, as well as our Shaftesbury Enterprise partners. Proceeds reached £93,117.

A legacy tree on the Philathletic Ground

INCOME RECEIVED IN THE 2019/2020 ACADEMIC YEAR

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learly it has been a very difficult and challenging time for many organisations, and especially charities. The HDT expresses heartfelt gratitude to the many contributors who continued to support the School’s significant ambitions.

The year 2019/20 represented a reduction in total income over recent years, but highly beneficial funding for School priorities nonetheless. Moreover, we look forward to benefiting from several significant pledges from benefactors postponed into the forthcoming months.

here are many ways in which you can make tax-efficient donations through the HDT to any of the School’s development campaigns.

Visit the Support Harrow pages on the School’s website harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow to find out more or speak to the Harrow Development Team on +44 (0)20 8872 8500.

WHO’S WHO IN THE HDT Harrow Development Trust

HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST INCOME 2019/20 THREE YARDS ANNUAL FUND, SCHOOL ACTIVITIES AND HOUSE PROJECTS

£600k

Douglas Collins Chief Executive William Landale (The Grove 1978³) Operations Director

UNRESTRICTED, PLAN 450 AND RACKETS COURT

£4.9m

William Young Associate Director Felicity Benjamin PA to the Chief Executive Chelsea Caterer Data and Information Officer Gregory Warmback (Newlands 20142) Development Officer

BURSARIES

Emma Pinto Database and Research Officer

£3.1m

Cece Walker / Debbie Hannaway Financial Secretary

RAISED IN NEW GIFTS

£8.6m

Jessica Bellringer Communications Officer

Trustees John Batting (The Park 1972²) Marina Brounger Matthew Fosh (The Head Master’s 1971²) Jim Glover (Rendalls 19783) Chairman Nikhil Hirdaramani (The Park 1988³) Adam Hart (West Acre 19772)

*HDT’s costs remain at 10% of income.

Patrick Wong (West Acre 1986³) The Harrow Development Trust is a registered charity, no 296097

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Join the

Edward Bowen Society and leave a lasting legacy for future generations

Bequests have been enormously important to Harrow since its earliest years. As we look ahead to the 450th anniversary of Harrow’s foundation, leaving a gift in your will is your opportunity to help secure Harrow’s future and support the education of future generations.

Visit harrowschool.org.uk/leaving-a-legacy to find out more Harrow Development Trust 5A High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP +44 (0) 20 8872 8500 hdt@harrowschool.org.uk Harrow Development Trust is a registered charity, number 296097

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ORDER OF BENEFACTORS 2015–20 WE CELEBRATE OUR BENEFACTORS

Benefactors who have given or pledged sums to the School, via 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 remain grateful to those who have donated before 2015. We express deep gratitude to all of them, including those who have asked for their names to remain anonymous or whom we may have omitted inadvertently, for which we apologise.

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J G Grinling CBE J H Wilding MBE C C Blount LVO

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D A Proger

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P N C Talbot

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P D Tuckett

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1958³

C G T Stonehill

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R F Foster

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1958³

C W P Thwaites

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1971³

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P M Beckwith OBE

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1958³

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1971³

G Meakin

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1958³

D C Edward

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1958³

R C W Odey

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1972¹

D V Brown

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N F Oppenheimer

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1959¹

T D C Woolland

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R J Sherlock

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B G D Blair QC

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1959³

J P Batting

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1972²

J J S Veisblat

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1944²

C H B Dorin

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1959³

E P R Currie

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1972³

Dr J E C Twentyman

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1944³

J D S Fricker

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1972³

K K Wynes

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1944³

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L E Peterken CBE

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1945²

J F Royle

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1960²

C H Gallagher

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J C G Stancliffe

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1945³

J G Tregoning

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1960²

M P N Bardsley

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A M Pelham Burn MBE

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1945³

P T Streeter

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R M Tindall

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Dr F C Worlock

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S J D Posford

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T C Marsden-Smedley

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J D Ferguson

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W E Whitehouse-Vaux

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A P K Boyle OBE

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M D Astaire

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D H O Owen OBE

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E A C Crump

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E A C Cottrell

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D G Spencer

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N Forrest

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D H Moss

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Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham Bt

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C H Gregson

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H Stirrat

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Major J H H Peile

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J H Cook

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D G Howes

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Professor J Hedley-Whyte*

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Colonel S A StJ Miller RAMC

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J E Metcalfe OBE

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1973³

A W Hakim

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1948²

Sir John Beckwith CBE

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1961¹

C P Latilla-Campbell

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M K Whitelock

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Dr N K Coni

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R J Dent

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B J Livingston

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C C Bailey

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R J Stanes

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J W Servaes

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1961³

J H S Akerman

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1973³

R M N Green

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S D Pollock-Hill

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1961³

W A H Crewdson

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B V F Harrild

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A P J Wilson

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Lt Col J D Gibbons OBE

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1973³

P J Mercer

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S J Richards

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1962²

D P Wiggin

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M C J Baddeley

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M J Keenan

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1962³

C G Hamilton-Stubber

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R G Seymour

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D C M Blackburn

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J F P Lloyd-Jones

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1974¹

M C A Blair

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Dr A O Wilson

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1964²

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J W Whitworth

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Lt Col C H Braithwaite

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1964³

P A Ferrari

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C Byford

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1950³

E J W Houghton

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1964³

D S Levy

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1974²

R C Lanphier III

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1950³

N A F Gent

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1964³

E C Gordon Lennox

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1974²

A E Oppenheimer

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1951²

G R J McDonald

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1965¹

The Hon Anthony Monckton

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1974²

Lord Butler of Brockwell KG GCB CVO D

1951³

E S Griswold

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1965³

G W J Goodfellow QC

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1974²

C N McCorquodale

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1951³

G R G Nicholson

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J C R Pitcairn

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1974²

J H Proctor

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1951³

W F C Simmonds

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A A C Bayne

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H J Sims-Hilditch

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1951³

G C W Marshall

W

1965³

P D H Kininmonth

E

1974³

P R J Crawfurd

D

1952²

J R G Traill

G

1966¹

I T Tower

P

1974³

M G C O’Connor

D

1952²

G D Unwin

K

1966²

S A O Phillips

H

1975¹

J D C Vargas

D

1952³

J S Shawyer

D

1966³

J Wyn-Evans

H

1975¹

F C Minoprio

M

1952³

J A N Prenn

H

1966³

A R E Ash

K

1975²

N T Casdagli

G

1953²

The Earl of Portland

M

1966³

P S L Lau

K

1975²

M L Maydon

G

1953³

G J M Downes

N

1966³

C S Farr

P

1975²

N M Bolingbroke-Kent

M

1953³

A J Cator

P

1966³

N P Mehta

D

1975³

R J Grindell

D

1954²

D W Dennis

R

1966³

A D S Prenn

H

1975³

R J Hermon-Taylor

D

1954³

The Hon Robert Orr-Ewing

E

1967²

T W Riddell-Webster

K

1975³

P de F Hicks Jr

D

1954³

W G S Massey QC

K

1967²

S P R Vivian

K

1975³

W E F Samuel

D

1954³

J B Steel QC

R

1967³

J A G H Stewart

N

1975³

Lt Cdr C W Hunter RN

G

1954³

R H C Phillips

W

1967²

S A Taylor

N

1975³

S M B Davison

G

1955²

W S Johnston

D

1967³

J I R Charatan

R

1975³

J C R Dennis OBE

B

1955³

J R B McBeath

H

1967³

J Miller

H K Leventis

D

1955³

The Rev’d Hugh Symes-Thompson

H

1967³

P H Seed

D

1955³

W R S Payne

N

Sir Hugh Stevenson*

P

1955³

G D C Paterson

P

G St E C Lofts

H

1956¹

R C Abrams

C J Hue Williams

B

1956²

T R de Zoete

W

R F de Robeck

E J M Child Villiers

W M Wasbrough

W

1975³

A G Wauchope

K

1976¹

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E D Wauchope

K

1976¹

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N H Moss

K

1976¹

W

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R H M Horner

M

1976²

N J Frankau

G

1968²

A R Varley

R

1976³

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M T Harris

G

1968²

T S Ashley-Smith

B

1976³

D

1956³

N H T Wrigley

G

1968²

I W de V Gibson

K

1976³

M T Brookes

E

1956³

R J R Seligman

R

1968²

C N Gooch

N

1976³

M C Ellington

B

1956³

C J Hopton

D

1968³

Dr C R Warren

G

1977¹

J G W Feggetter

D

1956³

C A Meaden

R

1968³

A D Hart

W

1977¹

Sir Jeremy Greenstock GCMG

G

1956³

N L Philips

B

1969³

A W D McLean

D

1977²

P D A F Matthiesen

G

1956³

G L T D Kronsten

M

1969³

D R N Scaife

K

1977²

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G

1956³

J B Neame

M

1977²

I H Angus

N

1956³

1970s T R Ward

N

1977²

N W D Foster

D

1957¹

Sir William Worsley Bt

G

1970²

A S K Lau

K

1977³

W K Moores

G

1957¹

J P M Baron

N

1970²

T W Waterfield

N

1977³

D J L Fitzwilliams

N

1957¹

F P M P de Lisle

P

1970²

P-C Lehrell

N

1977³

Colonel C M S Kaye OBE

G

1957²

J F Davis

D

1970³

C H Warren

P

1977³

P T G Phillips

G

1957²

S E H Lamb

G

1970³

J M Warren

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1977³

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1957²

R R Thayer

R

1970³

R A Raban-Williams

D

1978³

R H Woolley

W

1957³

R C Compton

W

1970³

P J Haigney*

E

1978³

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R L S Churchill

G

1978³

C J J Bonas

R

1984³

M J L Macaulay

G

1995³

A H Kent

G

1978³

B F R Bradkin

R

1984³

O E Craven

H

1995³

W J F Landale

G

1978³

T I O Umenyilora

R

1984³

N C R Andjel

H

1995³

M F Morley-Fletcher

H

1978³

K S B Duffy

W

1984³

G R Streeter*

H

1995³

S J Sebag-Montefiore

K

1978³

R L J Arnott

E

1985¹

W P R Petty

M

1995³

D A Carden*

K

1978³

S G Pampanini

N

1985¹

E N Poulter

N

1995³

The Hon Andrew Millett

N

1978³

H J R Bond Gunning

W

1985¹

W B Bryan

P

1995³

S A B Greig

P

1978³

P C G Witheridge

G

1985³

C J D Hall

W

1995³

J P J Glover

R

1978³

J T Blake

H

1985³

T W B Forman Hardy

D

1996³

S R Galway

D

1979¹

J L Pool

H

1985³

J L Watts

H

1996³

O H Nieboer

K

1979¹

N Khan

N

1985³

The Earl of Haddo

M

1996³

O A A Dajani

M

1979¹

C R Bain

P

1985³

B J Hypolite

N

1996³

R J M Keatley

W

1979¹

M E Davidson

R

1985³

E S Seligman

N

1996³

S M Levy

D

1979²

R E C Power

H

1986¹

A M Lea-Cox

D

1997³

I J F Royle

G

1979³

B R Ingram

N

1986¹

C R Reid

H

1997³

A E J Bagnall

K

1979³

T J Hughes

K

1986²

N H D Willis

H

1997³

A J B Smith

K

1979³

D A G Tait

D

1986³

K S Behal

M

1997³

G R Hartley

E

1986³

T B Rogers

P

1997³

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E

1986³

T W V French

M D Hamwee

D

1980¹

J-P Cope

H

1986³

G G Winn-Darley

G

1980¹

D L Brace

K

M B Buckland Bluett

G

1980¹

C W Tan

K

C Bonomi

H

1980¹

P T-A Wong

R J MacKechnie

D

1980³

J H F Cleeve

G

D S Dansingani

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1997³

J A Barrington-Wells

D

1998³

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B M Eadon

D

1998³

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G F J Yarrow

D

1998³

W

1986³

W R Orr-Ewing

E

1998³

C L Keey

D

1987¹

T H Adcock

G

1998³

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J R Gillions

E

1987³

M H Johnson

G

1998³

G

1980³

Q M J Ings-Chambers

H

1987³

M S Marks

H

1998³

G R Hulse

G

1980³

A C C Wong

P

1987³

A J Druttman

M

1998³

R A J Hills

H

1980³

M C P Hammond

B

1988³

J Wigley

E

1999³

N R B Bullock

R

1980³

P A Mosimann

B

1988³

S Ognev

K

1999³

A J Wills

E

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H St J R Foster

D

1988³

B J Figgures-Wilson

N

1999³

J Kennedy

H

1981¹

N W Blake

G

1988³

G R Allen

W

1999³

S D Reid

M

1981²

G J A Keith

K

1988³

C G L Hall

W

1999³

R T Brankin-Frisby

D

1981³

S N K Hirdaramani

P

1988³

J A C Campbell-Johnston

D

1981³

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R

1988³

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D

1981³

A G Haldane

B

1989³

B T Allen

B

2000³

T W H Lloyd-Jones

D

1981³

D R Martin

B

1989³

J C Poole

B

2000³

T J Gibbons

E

1981³

S A Stock

K

1989³

J A B Orr-Ewing

E

2000³

J E de B de B de Broë-Ferguson

G

1981³

Q J S G Baker

M

1989³

F L Streeter*

H

2000³

The Hon Andrew Butler QC

K

1981³

M G Hatcher

M

1989³

G Harrap

K

2000³

S D C Harman

M

1981³

D’V C Jacobs

P

1989³

G J George

M

2000³

A W Sexton

M

1981³

T S Montgomery

P

1989³

A Bhutiani

N

2000³

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P

1981³

J J B Snow

R

2000³

B J Kirkland

B

1982¹

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B

2001³

A C Malcolmson

D

1982¹

A Y Fang

B

1990³

A K-B Cheng

D

2001³

C P Theobald

P

1982²

A T Nehorai

D

1990³

E M N Baker-Martins

E

2001³

R B Piepenstock

B

1982³

G T Revedin di San Martino

K

1990³

N E M Wingfield Digby

E

2001³

T M T O’Connor

D

1982³

G M Parker

N

1990³

T S T Lee

G

2001³

B E Kryca

M

1982³

E J R Cable

B

1991³

F I A MacGregor

G

2001³

D C Manasseh

M

1982³

S D G Engelen

D

1991³

A Yaqub-Khan

M

2001³

A C W Snow

R

1982³

M Mantis

D

1991³

P L S I Ali-Noor

W

2001³

Sir Alexander Skipwith Bt

G

1983¹

W A T Gillions

E

1991³

F C McClure

G

2002³

J M P D Stroyan

G

1983¹

P M Molloy

P

1991³

C E G Bailey

H

2002³

A R L Banks

G

1983¹

G L Duder

B

1992³

W A Martin

K

2002³

J Regnier-Wilson

N

1983¹

M C W Lamb

H

1992³

A G Johnson

P

2002³

C R O’Connor-Fenton

P

1983¹

C A M Watenphul

K

1992³

M W R Z Szymanski

K

2003³

M J Morgan

R

1983¹

A C Alban-Moore

R

1992³

S M Stewart

G

2004³

S D Martle

B

1983³

C A M Boileau

R

1992³

M H Greaves

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2004³

R D Nelson

B

1983³

H B I I Cheape

B

1993³

W K Michele

H

2005³

L A Kunzig IV

D

1983³

T A T Davies

B

1993³

P R Ashton

M

2005³

C O Bridgeman

E

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G E Donald

B

1993³

J J P Jolly

M

2005³

J W Mackenzie

G

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C J R Wilson

D

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B R E Umbers

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R P Trotter

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J G B Taylor

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A C MacRae

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G R C Bucknall

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1983³

F N G Jones

H

1993³

A A A Nelson

W

2006³

N J B Smith

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1983³

W J L Matthews

H

1993³

A K Shankar

E

2007³

A Kumar

M

1983³

N W S Munton

H

1993³

S G Hardy

D

2008³

M M Murjani

M

1983³

L C L Fitzwilliams

N

1993³

O S E Verhagen

K

2008³

H T Wong

W

1983³

J A R Freeman

N

1993³

T T Konishi-Dukes

E

2009³

S G G Witheridge

G

1984¹

O G J M Scutt

N

1993³

J A T Hulbert

R

1984¹

C D M Thorburn

N

1993³

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J R Barkes

R

1984¹

S M Connell

R

1993³

H Y Ng

B

2010³

A H E P Walduck

W

1984²

J D A Baldwin

G

1994³

G O M Hart

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J D Orme-Smith

D

1984³

A P J Priestley

G

1994³

E S McGovern

K

2010³

C J A Virgin

E

1984³

T L Richards

G

1994³

N P E Verhagen

K

2010³

F J Blake

G

1984³

W H Ellis

H

1994³

M Kravets

G

2011³

M C Wallace

H

1984³

A E C Gray

H

1994³

R W R Craig

L

2011³

M C Bruno

K

1984³

J W B Neame

M

1994³

J A G Pinchess

L

2011³

Q A Hinxman

K

1984³

B I A Maclean

R

1994³

M J F Berry

M

2011³

S J Hunt

K

1984³

J D Rosemont

W

1994³

C D Jordan

B

2012³

K M Wilkins

K

1984³

C R D Arthy

W

1994³

O L B Chalmers

B

2013³

S B Schmidt

N

1984³

H J B Gates

D

1995³

N L Gardner

B

2013³

S R Daniel

P

1984³

T A van Straubenzee

E

1995³

H A Lee-Clarke

B

2013³

V K Hirdaramani

P

1984³

F J Goedhuis

G

1995³

T T A Maloney

B

2013³

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S G T Tallis*

D

2013³

Mr J B Hawkins

Mr & Mrs N P Cremin

A R Bullen

E

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Mr P D Hunter

Mrs C Curtis

C E G Hart

E

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Vice Admiral & Dr J P Kyd

Mr & Mrs D Cushley

J P Herron

G

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Mr W M A Land

Mr & Mrs F Da Silveira Pinheiro

A Rahman

G

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M T N Liddiard OBE MStJ JP

Mr Y Dai & Mrs X Zhang

J E Leof

H

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Sir Edward & Lady Dashwood

G C T Grassly

K

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Dr G Patterson

Mr & Mrs N M Davies

B T W Lau

K

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Mr N Deane

B T Ryland

L

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The Rev’d J E Power

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J Shanahan

L

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P Yeh

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G C Barry

M

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F G Hall

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O C Acar

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O T Brankin-Frisby

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Mrs A P Engelen

A L Kenda

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G O Watson

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M W Ayliffe

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G P T Gray

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J J Kyd

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K M I Kandour

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K C Krause

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H G Fry

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J N S Taylor

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Trusts, Foundations & Companies A G Leventis Foundation Cazenove Capital Management Limited Clarendon International Education Coutts & Co Doughty Family Foundation Forte Charitable Trust The Globe Theatre Harrow School Cricket Fund Ian Robert Kumar MacLaren 1999 Settlement McCorquodale Charitable Trust Pawle Charitable Trust Ranjita Ltd Simon Gibson Charitable Trust Tennis and Rackets Association The Zetland Charitable Trust Legators Sir James Colyer-Fergusson E 1930³ G W Falcon G 1934² G C Royle G 1936² T N MacN Stephens H 1940² D R Anson P 1942³ Dr A M Roe H 1944¹ E A Mews M 1948² Captain P A Foxwood D 1949² T J E Lardner R 19493 J M Brand R 1951² P G D Cooke-Priest N 1952³ E M R Davies R 1955³ C R French N 1954³ J A Y Hill E 1957¹ The Rev’d Ronald Darroch N 1959² Mrs W D J Cargill Thompson Mrs M Cotton Sir David Landale KCVO DL Mrs M Lloyd-Jones Miss A Pickard Mrs E A Shortland-Jones

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HARROW SCHOOL ENTERPRISES LTD Harrow School Enterprises Ltd (HSEL) is the School’s commercial trading arm and is tasked to ‘engage in suitable and profitable business’ to provide vital income for capital projects and refurbishment of the School estate.

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e provide key services to the School throughout the year, as well as managing a wide-ranging portfolio of educational and commercial activities.

In an average year, HSEL’s turnover is approximately £3 million and our target is to produce a net profit of at least £500,000 for the School. An additional contribution of £350,000 ‘cost absorption’ to the School’s operating expenditure means that HSEL’s contribution to the School is approximately £750,000. 2019/20 was far from a normal year, and for the first time in our 38-year history we will sadly incur a loss, but recovery plans are already in place and we approach the next year with confidence.

HSEL is responsible for the operation of the School’s Sports Centre as a ‘dual-use’ facility, enabling over 1,000 local members and staff to use the swimming pool, fitness gyms and sports hall. In October 2019, we welcomed 60 players from NFL’s Carolina Panthers for a pre-match training session and afternoon of community outreach, followed by a press conference for over 100 members of the international media.

The feedback we received was fantastic.

“It’s a great field, the facilities are terrific,” Ron Rivera, Head Coach of the Carolina Panthers, said, adding, “You think you’re in a Harry Potter movie.” The NFL training camp will return for 2021.

The Sports Centre was able to re-open in July, adhering strictly to Government and multiple sports’ governing-body guidelines.

The extra safety provisions in place enabled the Long Ducker charity bike ride to proceed in September, supported by the HSEL events team. The ride comprised a long (100 miles), medium (70 miles) and a short route (40 miles). Money raised was donated to the Young Harrow Foundation, Harrow Club and other partners such as local schools for educational programmes, and Harrow Carers.

In-person Easter Revision Courses were not able to take place but HSEL used this

NFL’s Carolina Panthers held a training session and an afternoon of community outreach

time to reflect on the current revision courses it offers and has developed a new programme of online courses to be launched in December 2020.

2020 was also the first summer in over 30 years where residential courses had to be cancelled. HSEL operated an online Harrow School Short Courses programme in its place, offering small-group courses in English, science and music to children from all over the world. HSSC Online had its most successful year to date, teaching over 1,000 hours of English to children. The online English programme was also made available to adult learners and was accredited by the British Council. We also provided vital administrative and logistic support to the Lumina programme.

With the cancellation of the summer

HSEL delivered Covid-secure film shoots

residential programme, the HSEL operations team re-purposed itself to host the Young Harrow Foundation (YHF) Day Camp in July and August instead. Eight local charities were invited to use the School’s facilities over the summer. We also hosted an external day camp at Harrow for the first time. Camp Beaumont used facilities across the School and at John Lyon School to provide childcare for children aged 3–16 during the school holidays. This catered for an average of 50 children per day. HSEL will be welcoming back Camp Beaumont for the Easter and summer holidays in 2021.

The Events team hosted over 45 events and was quick to adapt during lockdown to comply with COVID-19 restrictions and regulations, delivering four civil ceremonies, various day camps, a month-long exam centre and a community picnic. 2020 also saw the growth of ticketed events, such as flower-arranging workshops and subjectspecific tours.

HSEL are advisory board members for a group called Beautiful Schools and sit on the panel for the Schools Enterprise Association, focused on sharing good practice and promoting the events market in a school environment. We remain a Film London Premier Location and we were the first location in London and the surrounding areas to deliver a Covid-secure film shoot. You can see some familiar buildings in recent BBC TV shows Lethal White and The First Team, and in various adverts for Talk Talk, Vodafone and the Lawn Tennis Association.

– Harry Ogden, Business Director

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Pupils helped out at a migrant school at Maesot

HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BANGKOK Harrow Bangkok enjoyed a highly productive start to the academic year 2019/20. After much hard work, the school was awarded an Eco-Schools Silver Award, validating the many environmental initiatives students and staff undertake throughout the year. Harrow Bangkok Ocean Warriors beach and ocean cleanup weekends are an excellent example of whole-school events that happen throughout the year and contributed to the award.

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he High Performance Learning programme started to become embedded across the school as teachers embraced the concepts and turned them into practice. The school’s Director of Entrepreneurship visited and ran workshops and assemblies. Through these, students experienced the value of having an entrepreneurial mindset.

February’s student expeditions were enjoyed by most of the school, enriching their education and creating lifelong memories. Unfortunately, the restrictions of

COVID-19 meant overseas expeditions had to be cancelled, which was disappointing for many Sixth Formers.

The Harrow Bangkok community came together for another Harrow Fair showcasing the talents of students while raising funds for local charities in a fun and well-attended event.

Competitions for House basketball, dodgeball, football, Jenga and dragonboats gave friendly House rivalry opportunities to students. Sporting events such as the Harrow Bangkok Youth Cup for football, swim meets, golf and the Long Ducker were enjoyed by many.

For the second year running, an Upper School student team took part in the Formula 1 in Schools World Finals and were awarded the Sustainability Award in recognition of their ‘zero plastic waste’ car.

Students demonstrated care for the community by travelling to Maesot town, home to a large migrant population. There, they helped set up a mobile library and built an extra migrant-school classroom.

Throughout the year, the House charities were also sponsored in several events.

Unfortunately, in mid-March, the growing pandemic forced the school to

Students took part in a beach and ocean cleanup weekend

close. Well prepared for this though, teachers switched to online learning for toddlers to Sixth Formers. Lessons were live, pre-recorded or independent, depending on the age of students and the lesson content. Students, parents and staff adapted admirably. While challenging for many, the whole community benefited from learning new technological skills, parents had first-hand exposure to their children’s learning and there was increased communication between teachers and parents. The vast majority of parents were happy with how the school adapted to online learning, and the teaching and learning continued at the usual high standard expected at Harrow Bangkok.

Many students didn’t let the pandemic stop their concern for others and across the school we heard of donations of masks, shields and hand sanitiser, sometimes on an industrial level.

Thailand’s rapid response to the pandemic thankfully meant the country was spared much of its toll on health, and Harrow Bangkok was able to reopen to most students for the last two weeks of the school year, with necessary precautions.

We were, therefore, able to finish the year with a semblance of normality and students and teachers were able to see each other before the summer.

The rollercoaster of determining how external exams could be graded ended with Year 11 and 13 results being the school’s best ever; IGCSE results were 72% A*–A (grade 7–9) and A level were 68% A*–A. This outstanding set of results rounded off a year like no other on an extremely positive note and was a fantastic achievement for students who had been denied the opportunity of sitting exams and some of the other end-of-school rites of passage they would have expected.

– John Standen, Head Master

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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BEIJING When reflecting on 2019/20 it is tempting to use words like challenging, unprecedented or even sad and difficult; to be truthful, this year at Harrow Beijing was, at times, all of those things. We faced many challenges and had our share of sadness and difficulty. More importantly though, it seems most apt to ask how the school faced the situation and what it was that allowed us to not only persevere but, in many respects, to achieve great successes? If we were to choose one word, concept or value it would undoubtedly be ‘community’.

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orming a community in an international school is not always easy. A certain part of the community is transient. There are often many nationalities and, although English is our common language in our homes, we speak a multitude of languages and live the various cultures associated with those languages. Much less than banding around a single team or league, we don’t even agree what football is! What we do have in common is the school and Harrow School values, and this year they have proven to be those by which we live.

The ultimate task entrusted to any school is to help students realise their aspirations; a major part of that is of allowing them to enter the world’s best universities. This year was no exception to Harrow Beijing’s solid record in this respect as our students

gained admission to Oxford University, Imperial College London, UCL, King’s College London, New York University and the University of California to name just a few. Students largely studied online at home from February onward, and this meant that the support and guidance that parents provided was even more important than in a normal year.

Our parents have been involved in the struggle against COVID-19 on all levels from modelling good behaviour on washing hands to leading medical research. Parents took over a special edition of our COVID-19 newsletter Testing Times and shared stories of being stranded in other countries and cooking with their children during lockdown. Among many acts of kindness parents also sent masks to our teachers in the UK when supplies were short.

We would like in particular to acknowledge the role that our Headmaster David Shinkfield has played in shaping the

school over the last six years. We wish him well in his new school in Shenzhen. We are excited to be greeting a new Head in Rachel Dent and look forward to all that she and other new colleagues will bring to Harrow Beijing. We also make mention of John Barker, our relatively new Deputy Head, who has held the fort in the twilight between Heads.

Any good school has students at its heart. The increasingly globalised world into which we are sending our students is as rich in opportunties as it is exposed to potential risks. Our students are well placed, the vast majority being bilingual and all having the cultural awareness to negotiate east and west. As we see them go off into the world, armed with knowledge, experience and values, we are tempted to think that perhaps the twain will meet.

– John Hopkins, Assistant Head Master, Communications

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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HONG KONG Harrow International School Hong Kong continues to go from strength to strength and we are incredibly proud of our pupils’ achievements in academic endeavours, in the performing and creative arts, and in sport and service. Our pupils live out our motto ‘Leadership for a better world’ in many various ways.

2019/20 at Harrow International School Hong Kong was like no other. For months there were no school bells, no bustling corridors, no busy dining rooms, no laughter in Houses, no sport on the Astro, no pupils working in classrooms or rehearsing in music practice rooms and drama studios. But our young people engaged with a new style of learning and acted with great maturity in the ‘new normal’.

I encouraged our pupils to keep a journal of their experiences of living through the first pandemic in the age of globalisation.

These documents will be what historians call ‘primary sources’, which future generations will read to learn about the virus, its progress, the consequent measures of social distancing, self-isolation, and the impact of these on societies across the world and on the environment. Of course, our pupils rose to the occasion and conveyed through various media their experiences and responses. No doubt this work will have a special place in the Harrow Hong Kong archives.

I recently learnt that the Chinese word for ‘crisis’ has the symbols which mean both ‘danger’ and ‘opportunity’, and while we have been living with an incredibly contagious virus for 2020, it has been amazing to see how many people have viewed this time as an opportunity to see life differently, appreciate simple things, and value people around them, especially family, friends and teachers.

Our pupils demonstrated huge amounts of courage and determination in every area of their school life and, despite the unprecedented setback, at A level 43% of grades were at A*, with 73% at A*–A and 93% at A*–B. Pupils secured places at first-choice

universities around the world: Oxford and Cambridge, Imperial College, UCL, Bath and Edinburgh in the UK, and in the United States, Hong Kong, China, Canada and Australia, to study a range of subjects including MORSE, Law, Medicine, Languages, Economics and History.

At GCSE, 52% of exams were at grade 9, 48% at 9–8/A* and 92% at 9–7/A*–A. Academic excellence at Harrow Hong Kong is a given, but our school does not only deliver credentials, we also develop character to ensure that our young men and women are equipped with the knowledge, skill and confidence to be ‘leaders of tomorrow’. Our pupils learn resilience and learn how to succeed, and if you want some striking images of resilience, you only need to look at our pupils completing the virtual Long Ducker on a very hot day in May, with awards going to those undertaking the Long and Short Ducker in the most creative way: skiing, sailing and even skipping the 16km, some along the well-worn paths of the

Maclehose Trail; this was an example of physical distancing not social distancing.

The coronavirus pandemic has been a test of leadership across the world. For any government, any commercial company, charity or school, how crisis is managed is the product of the collective effort of a whole team, and I would like to thank our staff for the way in which they adapted to a new way of teaching and engaging with pupils. I am especially grateful to my Senior Leadership who worked tirelessly late into the night, at weekends and at endless meetings over holidays.

In the words of Rudyard Kipling’s poem If, performed at our 2020 Speech Day:

“If you can meet with Triumph and Disaster And treat those two imposters just the same…

If you can force your heart and nerve and sinew To serve your turn long after they are gone, Except the Will which says to them: ‘Hold on!...

Yours is the Earth and everything that’s in it” – Ann Haydon, Head

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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SHANGHAI There is a much-used aphorism that has for very many decades been attributed, without evidence, to Ancient China: ‘May you live in interesting times’. The sentiment behind this maxim is deemed to be more of a curse than a blessing – given that ‘interesting times’ are most usually those fraught with turmoil or difficulty, rather than order and calm.

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he world we inhabited for the most part in the academic year of 2019/20 certainly brought about ‘interesting times’: in many cases life changing and life shaping.

As we broke free in May from the chrysalis of self-isolation, quarantine and restrictions, we emerged changed but stronger. The seemingly endless weeks of limited human contact promoted reflection and disengagement from the daily distractions that so often divert our energies. Tough times are when our values matter most; our core values of Courage, Honour, Humility and Fellowship were never more important than during the year of 2020. We witnessed extraordinary levels of these values from across the full community of our School – most especially the courage and fellowship our pupils demonstrated in taking every opportunity to continue their learning and to make the most of all that was made available to

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them, parents who loyally supported the School, and staff who continued to do everything within their power, often through great personal sacrifice, to make certain our children continued to grow, learn and flourish.

In the public examination year groups, our pupils, and their teachers, rightly basked in the glory of their hard-earned results, even though the examinations, of course, could not be sat. Remarkably, 53% of all the IGCSEs taken by our Fifth Form students resulted in an A* grade, with 88% at A*/A. At A level, 50% of all examinations taken were graded at A* or A and, for a second year running, all Upper Sixth students entered their first-choice universities.

The past year saw the successful introduction of the concept of the Supercurriculum, where pupils and staff in the Upper School explore together shared academic passions in a wide range of non-examinable topics from contemporary geopolitics to life under the sea and film making.

2019/20 also saw the number of co-curricular activities and sports more than double across the School to over 150 pursuits. We are committed to an important and fundamental Harrovian principle: that every child who receives a Harrow education will be exposed to as many opportunities both within and outside the classroom as is possible, to ensure they discover their talents to the fullest.

The new Swimming Academy initiative witnessed the development of a high number of promising athletes, all of them pushed by their expert coaches

through high-octane early morning and after-school sessions.

The redevelopment of our Leadership and Service programme, including the creation of the iRules in the Lower School, promoted greater levels of active service across the School, whether that be six-year-old Pre-prep children reading to Early Years pupils, or our Senior pupils working with disabled children in residential care homes. Leadership and Service has now become a charted, purposefully designed conscious journey from 18 months to 18 years – Cubs to Upper Sixth – where pupils are challenged, stimulated to reflect, and truly discover who they are and what they may actually be capable of.

The creative arts programme, so central to a Harrow education, continued to grow.

In addition to the Harrow Theatre Academy, pupils can now study for and be examined in globally recognised accreditations from the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Arts. The number of pupils learning a musical instrument reached an all-time high. Highlights in the Autumn Term included the nostalgic and atmospheric performance of Five Americans and Three Murders and a Poisoning, and our hosting of the Harrow London chamber orchestra during their musical tour of China.

As we look ahead with hopefulness to a horizon of consistent normality, predictability and togetherness, we do so as a full school community that is more resolved than ever before to making the lives of our children as happy, successful and fulfilling as they can be.

– Charles Ellison, Head Master

The year saw the first of the School’s TEDx talks

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JOHN LYON The 2019/20 academic year will be remembered as unique in the School’s 144-year history. The global pandemic saw the closure of the School site at the end of March and, despite a limited return at the end of Summer Term, the School did not reopen in full until September and the start of the new academic year.

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espite little action on the Hill, learning continued apace, with a busy timetable of lessons being taught online.

Each department was able to deliver a rich programme of learning, and teachers also devised interesting and exciting activities beyond the virtual classroom, notably in sport, music and drama. We were especially pleased that PPE equipment made using the School’s 3D printer was delivered to a number of locations, including the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital.

The lockdown period brought a variety of specific difficulties, most notably the cancellation of public examinations at A level and GCSE. Students faced a long wait to learn of the grades they would be awarded. Once the grading system was corrected and clarified it was clear that the overall picture was hugely positive.

At A level, the School recorded a 100% pass rate across all subjects for the second year. 15% of all grades awarded were A* and more than half (53%) were A*/A. Students headed to universities across the UK, notably Russell Group institutions and the University of London. LSE and the University of Bristol each welcome four John Lyon students.

At GCSE one-fifth (19%) were at the

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highest 9 grade, and more than two-thirds were graded 9–7, the equivalent of an A*/A in the old grading system. 99% of all grades awarded were 9–4 (A–C equivalent).

Two pupils achieved a perfect set of 9 grades and a record 17 Sixth Form Academic Scholarships were awarded to pupils attaining at least eight 8 grades.

The School year was notable in many respects. We announced that girls would join the School, for the very first time, from September 2021; the whole community was proud to receive the best possible Excellent–Excellent in the ISI school inspection; Sixth Form students organised and hosted a second annual Model United Nations conference, which attracted students from a number of local schools and colleges; and we once again welcomed a number of inspirational speakers, notably Victoria Cross holder Johnson Beharry, famed barrister Richard Rampton QC and World Cup winning cricketer Fran Wilson.

The highest profile event of the year saw the School host its first TEDx talks. Thirteen speakers including a 12-year-old pupil and an Everest mountaineer came to give talks on the subject of Earth, all of which are now available on TEDx’s YouTube channel.

In sport, John Lyon’s Under-14 hockey

players were crowned Middlesex champions, while the same year’s badminton players took the Harrow Borough title. The 1st XI football team claimed some big scalps, and the Under-14s racked up the goals, including 7-0, 9-0 and 11-0 wins. The School’s most exciting emerging sport, water polo, saw the School take another trophy away from an invitational event against a number of local teams.

The Under-14 hockey team were Middlesex champions

Our annual Christmas musical, We Will Rock You, was performed by a cast of John Lyon boys and girls from local schools to three sell-out audiences, as well as a dress rehearsal to a theatre full of local schoolchildren.

The Music Department continued with its busy programme of concerts, including two lunchtime concerts performed live via Microsoft Teams from pupils’ homes.

The Estates Department took advantage of the extended summer site closure to start and finish two major projects: an overhaul of the Lyon Building, the Library and the Boyd Campbell Hall, and the creation of a new STEAM laboratory in the main School building, designed as a modern and flexible learning space in which the full range of STEAM activities can take place.

– Katherine Haynes, Head

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JOHN LYON’S CHARITY Up until March 2020, John Lyon’s Charity was making significant progress on some longstanding initiatives that have been in development for many years.

Over the financial year 2019/20, £10.7 million was expended on grants, with 255 grant requests received over that period.

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n the autumn of 2019, the charity launched its impact report, Champion Support Provide, which was conducted by the Institute of Voluntary Action Research (IVAR). We asked IVAR to consider the impact the charity has had in its Beneficial Area over the past ten years across five of our Programme Areas: Children & Families, Youth Clubs & Youth Activities, Emotional Wellbeing, Special Needs & Disabilities and Education & Learning. The recommendations compiled in the report will help to inform the charity’s strategy over the next five to ten years.

The final report shows we are clearly seen as a relational, responsive and responsible funder. We were described by grantee organisations as a funder that ‘walks alongside’ them and has helped them to adapt to continue meeting the needs of children and young people in the Beneficial Area.

In January 2020, John Lyon’s Charity formed a partnership with The Evening Standard, tech investor and philanthropist Martin Moshal and the London Community Foundation to support inclusion in London secondary schools. The Excluded Initiative offers special support to secondary schools in London that have exclusion rates higher than the national average and are seeking to tackle these issues in an inclusive, nurturing way. The Initiative will provide

project funding over a three-year period, with John Lyon’s Charity granting £600,000 in total over three years, with matched funding from Martin Moshal via the London Community Foundation, supporting eight schools across London. Our hope is that this initiative will act as a pilot for a larger roll-out and that the combination of partnership funding, high-profile media coverage and academic evaluation by the Institute of Education will create momentum for change.

In February 2020, the charity launched the Young People’s Foundation Trust (YPFT), a national body that co-ordinates the work of the individual Young People’s Foundations (YPF) and maintains the integrity of the YPF model. YPFs are member-led charities comprised of organisations that work with children and young people in a local area. Each YPF adapts to meet the needs of people in that area. The YPF Trust performs five key functions: quality assurance of YPFs as

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the model expands; supporting YFPs to achieve shared objectives and develop efficient models of working; advocacy on behalf of YPFs and acting as central point of communication for the network; seeking collaboration opportunities for YPFs; and generating a fundraising strategy for its ongoing functions and for investment into its membership.

At the start of the COVID-19 pandemic, we were one of the 350 signatories of the London Funders Joint Statement, ‘We stand with the sector’, that pledged our support to civil society groups affected by the coronavirus outbreak. We also immediately contacted all the organisations that we fund to reassure them that we were willing to adapt our usual ways of working in order to ensure their survival during this difficult time. This swift and robust support of the sector has reaped huge rewards in the innovation we have seen as organisations rapidly changed their delivery models to be offered entirely online.

John Lyon’s Charity has also contributed nearly £1 million as emergency grants to organisations needing extra support to deliver their services differently and respond effectively to the needs of their communities. We are also one of the very few funders that have operated ‘business as usual’ during this time, continuing to offer our usual Grant Funds alongside this emergency funding. We were also pleased to be able to re-open our School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF) in early summer, in accordance with guidelines from the National Youth Agency. Eighty-two organisations were able to run activities in July and August with funding from the charity. We also launched our first miniseries, John the Lyon, who goes on SHAF adventures with his friends. The series serves as a reminder that life will get back to normal one day soon.

– Anna Hoddinott, Senior Grants and Communications Manager

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Last Word A set of albums recently donated to the Harrow School Archive by the Geography Department were found to contain some fascinating photographs of Geography field trips to Germany and Austria in 1935 and 1936.

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hese pioneering field trips were led by beak Edward Dalrymple Laborde, who wrote and translated a number of geography textbooks and a history of the School, Harrow School: Yesterday and Today.

The photographs, mostly taken by beaks on the trips, record their canoe journeys along the Rhine, the Mosel and the Danube, camping in the glorious countryside and visiting historic towns and cities along their course. But throughout the albums, and in strong contrast to the carefree enjoyment apparent in the photographs, are signs of the growing power and influence of the National Socialist Party in Germany.

The photograph captions make only occasional reference to the evidence of Nazi domination, suggesting that the war that was to come still seemed a distant prospect.

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