Harrow Record 2021-22

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FROM THE HEAD MASTER

2021/22 saw a renewed sense of energy and vibrancy as the Harrow community fully embraced and appreciated a return to life on the Hill.

Boys and beaks immersed themselves in the diverse range of opportunities available here at Harrow, engaging with and leading eclectic societies, mucking in on the sports pitches, raising the roof in the Ryan Theatre and bringing Speech Room alive again with the resonance of music and voice.

The boys’ sense of commitment, enjoyment and dedication was palpable, and their achievements remarkable. From those boys who found the courage to push themselves into new avenues of adventure, to those who showed humility amid the celebrations of victory – I am proud of each and every Harrovian.

It was, of course, a momentous year in other ways. Celebrations began for the 450th anniversary of the granting of a charter to John Lyon for founding of a school on Harrow on the Hill in ways that will be remembered by everyone who played a part. Some of the events are captured in the pages of this magazine but they will all remain in the hearts of the whole Harrow community.

Our anniversary year has been spectacular, moving and insightful, and while it has been a birthday and a reflection of things past, it will also be a significant motivation and inspiration for years to come for the School. The response from our local community, from current and past parents, and from Old Harrovians speaks of a captivating blend of courage and fellowship in a School that opened itself up so much to view in the course of a year.

As we celebrate the past and refound our future, we look to continue also to build on our social interventions, some of which are detailed in this publication, with food and facilities, supporting education and providing education, and enabling and awarding bursaries. Shaftesbury Enterprise plays a part in the life of every boy in the School, and its impact extends deeply into the borough of Harrow and beyond.

May I extend my sincere thanks to you, the Harrow Family, for making our anniversary year so very special. We look to the future with energy, assurance and wisdom gained from a truly remarkable year.

Alastair Land

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.

HARROW 450 CELEBRATIONS BEGIN AT ST PAUL’S CATHEDRAL

In February 2021, the School’s 450th anniversary celebrations commenced when Harrovians, parents, Governors and staff attended a private Service of Refoundation at St Paul’s Cathedral to mark the granting in 1572 of a Royal Charter to John Lyon for the founding of a school in Harrow on the Hill. At this service, led by the Bishop of London and addressed by the Head Master, a replica of Harrow School’s royal seal was presented to each of the Houses and members of the Harrow family, including John Lyon School and the Harrow International Schools. Harrow’s royal charter and seal were displayed on the altar of the cathedral, and celebratory music was provided by a variety of School ensembles.

HARROW AND THE HILL 450 COMMUNITY EVENT

On Saturday 30 April, thousands of local residents and friends of the Hill joined a fun-filled community event to celebrate Harrow’s 450th anniversary. There was an amazing variety of entertainment on offer, including theatre, dance, food stalls and art exhibitions. Local partnership schools joined forces with members of the Harrow School community for a performance of Benjamin Britten’s community opera Noye’s Fludde in front of a packed audience. Other activities included a Punch and Judy show, a magician, a cricket festival, Tai Chi, dancers from around the world and a basketball competition. There were performances by musicians including Harrow Steel Band and Harrow Indie Choir as well as costume-themed streets (Victorian West Street, Edwardian High Street, Elizabethan Old Schools), which added a unique twist to the celebrations.

FOOTBALL COMES HOME TO HARROW

OnWednesday 16 March, Harrow and the Football Association joined forces to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the first FA Cup Final. Charles Alcock (Druries 1855³) was the first, and longestserving, Secretary of the FA and devised the FA Cup competition. He also captained Harrow Wanderers, who were the first club to win the Cup. The original 1872 FA Cup and the current FA Cup were on display throughout the afternoon.

Local primary and secondary schools and feeder prep schools competed in junior and senior FA Cup-style tournaments on

Harrow’s sports fields. The winners (Wetherby School in the junior tournament and John Lyon School in the senior tournament) were presented with the trophies by Chair of the FA Debbie Hewitt, who also unveiled a plaque to commemorate Charles Alcock. In the evening, ex-Champions League footballer and current Sky Sports football pundit Jamie Redknapp, Wycombe Wanderers’ Adebayo Akinfenwa and ex-England Under-21 player Emmanuel Shittu took part in an hour-long question and answer session in Speech Room.

Chair of the FA Debbie Hewitt unveiled a plaque commemorating Charles Alcock

Jamie Redknapp attended the event The original 1872 Cup and the current Cup were both on display

450 YEARS IN SOUND AND LIGHT

On three nights in May, the School staged a spectacular Son et Lumière musical production in a specially constructed open-air amphitheatre on Chapel Terrace. The production featured songs and scenes from the School’s history – from the first candle-lit lessons in the Fourth Form Room and the birth of Harrow football to obscure School rules and the ‘Giants of Old’. Performed by a large cast of current Harrovians and professional actors, including Old Harrovians, it culminated in a breath-taking light show and firework display.

THE WAR MEMORIAL BUILDING –ONE HUNDRED YEARS ON

In October 1921, the Archbishop of Canterbury, Randall Davidson (Small Houses and Moretons 1862³), laid the foundation stone of Harrow School’s War Memorial Building in honour of the hundreds of Harrovians who were killed in the service of their country during the First World War.

On 6 October 2021, Assistant Chaplain General Colonel Feltham-White, Father James Power, who is Vicar of St Mary’s Church, and members of the Harrow Rifle Corps held a special Service of Rededication

at the War Memorial Building to mark this important anniversary. Several Old Harrovians who have served in the armed forces were present at the service, which was held on the day on which the School would once have celebrated Founder’s Day in honour of Harrow’s founder, John Lyon.

After a general salute and inspection of the Corps, the School paused for the Last Post and Sunset. In the evening, Harrow musicians joined with the choir of John Lyon School for a Commemoration Concert.

FIRST BOYS ARE AWARDED THE NEW VALUES MEDAL

In the year of the School’s 450th anniversary, a new award, the Values Medal, was instituted. Values Medals are awarded to one boy in each year group who has best exemplified the values of Courage, Honour, Humility and Fellowship across a wide range of activities over the course of the academic year. The medals were designed and produced by Leo Shirley Smith, the son of Richard Shirley Smith (The Knoll 19492). The first five boys to be awarded Values Medals, which were presented on Speech Day, were:

■ Shell: Benjamin Cutts (Elmfield)

■ Remove: Jenkyn Keigwin (The Knoll)

■ Fifth Form: Arthur Andrew (The Knoll)

■ Lower Sixth: Archie Tait (The Head Master’s)

■ Upper Sixth: Joseph Wragg (The Grove)

INAUGURAL HARROW FESTIVAL OF CULTURE

December 2021 saw the first Harrow Festival of Culture, which celebrated Harrow’s diversity and gave Harrovians the opportunity to learn more about the different cultures and ethnic groups that make up the School’s exciting and diverse environment. The event included a series of talks from societies such as the L P Hartley Society for creative writing and the Perceval Society for Black and Caribbean culture and history. The Senior Geography Society hosted an event at which boys from around the world, including South Africa, Japan and Jamaica, outlined the main traditions and cultural activities of their home country. There was a book display in the Vaughan Library, musical performances, art

exhibitions and a whole-School supper with foods from different countries and cultures. Boys were also encouraged to submit entries for a new Speech Day prize, the Habib Gakic Diversity Essay Prize. The idea for the festival was developed through consultations with the Boys’ Equity, Diversity and Inclusion Group, which is working to integrate active inclusion into the academic curriculum and the way in which School shapes its co-curricular activities. Through this, and a range of other initiatives, Harrow hopes to gain a greater understanding of the different cultural experiences and transitions involved in being a member of the Harrow community.

CHURCHILL SONGS

Lord Sedwill was the Guest of Honour at this year’s Churchill Songs. Among his many responsibilities, Lord Sedwill has held the posts of Ambassador to Afghanistan, Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, National Security Advisor and Cabinet Secretary. He addressed the Harrovians and Old Harrovians gathered in Speech Room on the importance of courage, sharing anecdotes from his days as a diplomat on the front line during the Gulf War, as well as stories of many courageous individuals whom he has met during his distinguished career.

First winners of the new Values Medal

The Head Master with Lord Sedwill

NEW APPOINTMENTS IN THE SENIOR MANAGEMENT TEAM

MR NICK PAGE –DEPUTY HEAD MASTER

NickPage returned to Harrow to take up the post of Deputy Head Master in September 2021 after the appointment of Alastair Chirnside as Head of St Edward’s School, Oxford. Nick studied French, Russian and Spanish at Nottingham University before completing a PGCE at Queens’ College, Cambridge. He began his teaching career at Harrow, fulfilling a number of roles including Head of Modern Languages, Commanding Officer of the Harrow Rifle Corps and Senior Head of Subject, as well as remaining heavily involved in the School’s co-

MR CHARLES BAILEY –DIRECTOR OF STUDIES

Charles Bailey was appointed as Director of Studies after Dr Michael Gray took up the headship of Hereford Cathedral School in September 2021. Charles read Theology at Oxford, where he also completed his PGCE. He started teaching at Forest School, before moving to Harrow in 2014 to teach Theology & Philosophy and History. Charles has been Resident Tutor in The Park, Assistant House Master in The Grove, and has

MISS HANNAH FOX – ACADEMIC AND UNIVERSITIES DIRECTOR

With the appointment of Charles Bailey as Director of Studies, Hannah Fox assumed the role of Academic and Universities Director. Hannah read Classics at Trinity College, Oxford, as a Blakiston Exhibitioner. She started her teaching career at The King’s School Gloucester, before becoming Head of Classics at St Helen and St Katharine School

curricular life, in particular coaching rugby, soccer and polo. In 2014, Nick was appointed to Harrow’s Senior Management Team as Academic and Universities Director, with responsibility for the day-to-day academic running of the School and with oversight of all matters relating to higher education. In 2017, he moved to Westminster School, where he was Deputy Head (Co-Curriculum) and Director of Communications. He is Vice Chair of Governors at Old Buckenham Hall School in Suffolk, and a foundation governor at St Jérôme’s Bilingual Primary School in Harrow.

coached rugby, cricket and Harrow football. In 2017, he became the Head of Learning Skills, and then Head of Theology & Philosophy a year later. In 2019, Charles was appointed to the Senior Management Team as Academic and Universities Director. In recent years, Charles has sat as a foundation governor at St John’s Church of England School. He also works alongside the International Boys’ School Coalition by regularly leading professional-development and teachertraining courses for teachers across the globe.

in Abingdon and teaching at Winchester. She coached rowing at all these schools, having done university-level coxing at Oxford. She joined Harrow in 2018 from Somerville College, Oxford, where she was a non-stipendiary lecturer, teaching Greek and Latin language and New Testament Greek to undergraduates. She was made Master-in-Charge of Oxbridge and Scholars in 2019 and has also been responsible for Spear Harrow.

Miss Hannah Fox

Mr Charles Bailey

Mr Nick Page

EXAMINATION RESULTS AND UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS

Harrow’s outgoing Fifth Form achieved outstanding GCSE results, following a return to the sitting of public examinations in 2022, with 49.4% of grades at grade 9 and 75.8% of grades at 9 or 8. Impressively, 18 boys gained ten or more grade 9s. Fifty-seven boys attained ten or more grades 9 or 8.

At A-level, over 43.3% of grades were A*. The A* rate exceeded the School’s average since the grade was introduced in 2010, bar the two non-examined years of 2020 and 2021. Over three-quarters of grades were either A* or A.

Six boys achieved five or more A* grades, with 20 boys gaining four or more A*s. Thirty-nine boys gained three or more A*s and 106 boys gained three or more A*–A grades.

These strong A-level results have translated into a positive set of university outcomes.

Highlights from the 2022 university cycle include:

■ Harrovians took up places at six of the world’s top ten universities (QS World University Rankings) including Oxford, Cambridge, Stanford and Chicago.

■ A record number of boys took up places at Russell Group universities.

■ Twenty-four Harrovians gained places at US universities.

■ Seven Harrovians took up places at four of the eight Ivy League schools in the US.

■ The School continues to have impressive representation at top UK institutions such as Imperial (6), UCL (10) and Durham (17), and with 12 boys taking up places at each of Edinburgh, Newcastle and Bristol.

■ Nearly a third of boys took up places at institutions ranked in the world’s top 20 including Princeton, Columbia and Edinburgh.

■ One boy began a Degree Apprenticeship with Deloitte.

Leavers’ Ceremony

Bradbys leavers

Druries leavers

AROUND THE HILL

Alongside steady progress on the refurbishment of the Shepherd Churchill building and the construction of the new science building, there were many other projects that were completed or on

which significant progress was made, notably the transformation of the Old Armoury into a Teaching and Learning Hub with facilities to allow boys to benefit from the latest advances in education.

4 MEDICAL CENTRE Phase 1 of refurbishment.

5 GOLF COURSE

Replacement of irrigation for the Golf Course – Phase 1, and installation of golf simulator in Harrow Park.

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

3 MUSIC SCHOOLS Lighting upgrade in the main auditorium.

6 BRADBYS Refurbishment of Matron’s surgery and conversion of A Floor tosh into a gym.

7 THE PARK

Refurbishment of the Finds Room, Three Yearer, Laundry and 1st and 2nd floor toshes.

8 ELMFIELD Refurbishment of the Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth common rooms.

2 NEW SCHOOLS Boiler replacement.

1 OLD ARMOURY Refurbished as a new Teaching and Learning Hub.

9 THE KNOLL Refurbishment of three common rooms and the A Floor Buttery.

10 RYAN THEATRE Boiler and air conditioning replaced.

12 BESSBOROUGH New cricket square ground and continuation of pavilion refurbishment.

11 THE COPSE Refurbishment of form rooms.

A CURRICULUM IN THE BROADEST SENSE: THE PATH TO ADULTHOOD

The School is fortunate to be a member of the International Boys’ Schools Coalition (IBSC), a non-profit organisation of schools dedicated to bettering boys’ education worldwide, with a specific focus on the professional growth of those who work in those schools.

Nations represented in the 300-strong coalition include Australia, Canada, Singapore, South Africa, the United States and the United Kingdom. It was heartening to attend the IBSC’s most recent annual conference in Dallas. The passion and enthusiasm with which colleagues discussed innovations in boys’ schools was uplifting and reaffirmed Harrow’s single-sex conviction.

The conference was entitled ‘The Path to Manhood’. It struck a chord for the School, given Harrow’s desire to help boys develop for a life of public service, learning, leadership and personal fulfilment. What does such a path look like? Is it a straight line with clearly defined checkpoints, tick-boxes and targets? Or is it more meandering, a series of crossroads and opportunities? Harrow’s Curriculum 2025 was introduced in September 2021,

recognising the latter path. Harrovians’ interests are broad and wide reaching, with success in this path to manhood taking different forms for different boys.

Curriculum 2025 has sought to ensure that all boys at Harrow are prepared for a rapidly changing world with significant

technological advancement, irrespective of the path they take through the School. Following 2019/20’s no-assumptions curriculum review, we remain cognisant of the fact that boys still require a strong set of GCSEs and A-levels to access the most competitive university courses, degree apprenticeships and graduate jobs. We were buoyed, therefore, by the return to public examinations in 2022. Boys and beaks alike have appreciated the opportunity to work towards a clearly defined end goal and to have the chance to exhibit academic strength in a public examination context. For all our boys, summer 2022 was the first time that they had sat a public examination, an important rite of passage for any young person as they progress through secondary education that allows them to develop further their academic resilience, comradeship and rigour.

While enabling boys to achieve outstanding public examination results remains a key part of our academic strategy, we recognise that the boys must be given a wide range of opportunities to complement their curricular studies.

This year’s newly reformed Elective programme saw boys strive to take Electives from across five core areas:

1. Individuals and Societies

2. Maths, Science and Technology

3. Literature and the Arts

4. Life Skills and Wellbeing

5. Interdisciplinary Courses

It was energising to see boys who study exclusively STEM-based subjects at A-level taking courses entitled ‘The History of the Essay’ and ‘The Vampire in Literature’ and, similarly, humanities specialists taking courses in ‘Conserving Biodiversity’ and ‘An Introduction to Artificial Intelligence’. Our Sixth Form boys will, therefore, leave Harrow with a broad set of skills, viewpoints and academic contexts. Studying the unexamined has allowed boys to discover their passions and to view academia as valuable in itself. Excitingly, the boys gain credits for their engagement with the Elective programme and other super-curricular endeavours. These credits go towards the newly launched Harrow Diploma which, from September 2022, will be externally accredited by the University of Buckingham. Indeed, the Upper Sixth of 2022/23 will be the first cohort to leave the School with a suite of A-levels and the Harrow Diploma.

Any successful path to manhood must also include moments for boys to appreciate the interdisciplinary nature of the siloed academic disciplines that they study over the course of an academic year. To this end, 2022 saw all the Shells taken off the traditional timetable for three separate days to work towards solving a problem on the topic of environmental sustainability. The Shells were required to work collaboratively to study the environmental problems posed, develop a solution, and present that solution to an audience. The level of leadership, teamwork and creativity on show was outstanding as boys proposed innovative solutions to the likes of climate crisis and air pollution. The Remove and Lower Sixth boys, too, through the Scholars’ programme with Notting Hill and Ealing High School, have worked in small groups to look at interdisciplinary projects including ‘Alexandria’ and ‘Gender like you’ve never seen it before’.

Unquestionably, our boys now value the need to view the world through an interdisciplinary prism as they prepare for life beyond the Hill.

New York Times bestselling author David Brooks spoke in Dallas of the need for

SIXTH FORM ELECTIVES

character to be the main object of education. He described the importance of boys developing their emotional intelligence and their teachers’ roles in offering moral teaching and setting high standards. In its second year, Harrow’s on-timetable PSHEE programme has seen the boys challenged and stretched. It has made them aware of the crucial ideas, moral frameworks and pastoral contexts through which they might make a meaningful and characterful contribution to society when they leave the School. Perhaps most importantly, the School’s curriculum in its broadest sense allows the boys to appreciate and value the inherent dignity in each person; an idea complemented by the School’s House systems and relational approach to form-room teaching.

It has been exciting to see the School’s latest innovations develop and mature over the past year. 2022/23 represents an opportunity for further development, with a particular focus on digital literacy, more academic collaborations with girls’ schools, and the articulation of cognitive and social literacies within the curriculum.

– Charles Bailey, Director of Studies

NEWS FROM THE DEPARTMENTS

Astronomy Biology

Many boys used the Rayleigh Observatory to collect data for their Observing projects, which involved choosing celestial objects, imaging them with a variety of telescopes, filters and camera configuations, and processing their images into a portfolio for submission as part of their coursework. Many boys competed in the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad – a mixture of astronomy and physics problems involving the analysis of real observational data. Brandon Chang (Druries) did particularly well in an exceptionally tricky paper. In a similar fashion, all GCSE Astronomy students took the Astronomy Challenge run by the British Physics Olympiad. Harrovians achieved some of the highest marks in the country, with Yiche Huang (Bradbys), Julian Herschel (The Grove), Julian Chan

(The Head Master’s), Tomas Mugica Moreno (The Knoll), Henry Webster, Weiqian Yi (both Druries), Aryan Rudraraju (The Grove), Spencer Chan (The Knoll) and Ollie Proctor (The Head Master’s) all winning a Gold

medal, with nine others achieving Silver.

Julian Herschel and Aum Amin (Elmfield) received commendation certificates from the International Astronomical Search Collaboration for their efforts in identifying asteroids in never-before-viewed astrometric, and a team of five boys led by Aum Amin worked with researchers from UCL to build numerical models of the interior of neutron stars.

During the year, we held many observatory open evenings for the whole School community and public groups to observe planets, galaxies, nebulae and star clusters. One particular highlight was the 450 celebration, during which we welcomed over 200 guests from Harrow to explore the Rayleigh Observatory.

– Chris Crowe, Head of Astronomy

It was a great relief that a full programme of practical work could resume after Covid. It is only by doing the investigations that boys can develop skills such as dissection and appreciate the challenges in collecting good data. It is also a great opportunity for the boys to work together and forge new friendships.

In the summer months, much of the practical work took place outside. We are very fortunate to have an array of ponds, woodlands, hedgerows and meadows where we can conduct ecological investigations. Going forward, we intend to develop these habitats to support Sixth Form projects that we hope will generate data that boys can use to monitor changes in wildlife communities over time and inform conservation management practices.

One very positive legacy of lockdown was the proliferation of boy-led talks. The Medical Society was particularly active this year with weekly lectures from budding medics complemented by half-termly meetings of the Dissection Society. It was also fantastic to be able to host external speakers: Professor Lloyd

Peck from the British Antarctic Survey gave the 2022 Rayleigh Lecture on life in extreme environments. Other supercurricular events flourished too including

the Biology Olympiad, Intermediate Biology Olympiad, Biology Challenge plus numerous essay competitions.

– Nick Keylock, Head of Biology

Professor Lloyd Peck gave the 2022 Rayleigh Lecture

Sun solstice in June 2022

Chemistry

The Royal Society of Chemistry’s Olympiad proved popular again with 56 boys taking on the challenge, collecting a hugely impressive 13 Gold, 29 Silver and 17 Bronze awards. Brandon Chang (Druries) achieved the rare feat of competing in the second round, having achieved the top Harrow mark (62%), which is double the lower Gold boundary (31%), alongside Edward Cleeve (Lyon’s) and Cody Xu (The Grove). Stretching well beyond the A-level syllabus, it is a taxing challenge for Upper Sixth chemists yet to finish the course, so it is especially commendable that 29 entrants were in the Lower Sixth and four still in the Fifth Form, three of whom achieved Gold awards: Henry Webster (Druries), Liron Chan (The Grove) and Shawn Shen (Lyon’s).

Thirty-four candidates entered the C3L6, winning four Copper, ten Silver and 15 Gold awards, as well as two of the highly coveted Roentgenium awards for Henry Webster and Liron Chan. Both boys attended the Cambridge Chemistry Summer Camp in August.

Throughout the year, the young Top of the Bench team were highly competitive in the regional round (still held remotely post-Covid).

Lower Sixth Former Aum Amin (Elmfield) was particularly active in looking for research competitions he could enter independently. He began an IRIS science project before throwing his efforts into the Davidson Inventors Challenge. Joined by

Jonathan Riddell-Webster (The Grove) and Seyon Santhamoorthy (The Knoll), Team Filakas was placed in the top three national finalists, having given a presentation on

the aim of making a sustainable bioplastic smartwatch screen protector using starch reinforced with alumina. Sweet-potato starch proved to be the best, after comparing affordability, transparency and resilience in smash/scratch tests. Aum also won first place in the Armourers and Brasiers Sixth Form Materials Prize competition. The competition is designed to give learners opportunities to find out about materials science and engineering outside their normal lessons. Aum was invited as one of four finalists to present on a subject of his choice: the properties of nichrome, an alloy used in electrical heating.

Another Lower Sixth team looking for sustainable alternatives investigated different ways to convert waste cooking oil from the School dining hall into soap. Having tried the varied methods, they compared each for their antibacterial properties.

– Christian Penhale, Head of Chemistry

ClAssiCs

The Contio in 2021 was delivered by Phoenix Ashworth (The Head Master’s), the first time since the beginning of the Covid pandemic that Speech Room was filled by boys, beaks and Governors. It was a great occasion and one that remains unbroken throughout the School’s history.

Classical Society Secretaries Antonio da Silveira Pinheiro and Jiho Ro (both The Park) created a new Crete exhibit in the Deno Leventis Library at the heart of New Schools. They curated a wide variety of Cretan and other Classical Greek material from the Old Speech Room Gallery and installed the display in the library in the Summer term. There was much competition for the prestigious Classics prizes. The Oxenham Prize, the annual Latin and Greek recitation competition, was judged by Ms Ottavia Olivero, Head of Classics at Rooks Heath School. The standard of competition was as high as ever, despite the set readings includiing some rather difficult elegiac

passages. Tony Shi (The Grove) won Shell Latin, and impressed audiences by delivering the poem from memory. Viren Bhaika (Lyon’s) won Shell Greek, Jamie Jevons (Lyon’s) won Remove Latin and did remarkably well in the Greek category too, but was beaten by the polished performance of Edmund O’Callaghan (Elmfield). Alexander Newman (Druries) and June Hyun (West Acre) won the Latin and Greek Fifth Form categories respectively (June coming second in the Latin), William Wauchope (The Knoll) won Sixth Form Latin and Joe McGuinness (The Park) won in Greek. Particular mention should be made of Jiho Ro (The Park), who performed in nearly perfect meter and was proxime accessit in both categories. But Jiho got his own back in the Plumptre Prizes, the most important Classics prizes of the year. Our adjudicator was Dr David Butterfield of Queen’s College, Cambridge. Our two Deno Leventis Scholars did remarkably well:

Arthur Pilkington (Rendalls) won the Latin Unseens and Greek Prose; Jiho Ro was strong across all categories and won the overall Lower Sixth Prize. William Wauchope won in the Greek Essay and was strong in the language papers, and so won the overall Plumptre Prize. Joseph Wragg (The Grove) won the MacPherson Prize for Ancient History.

The department continued to be very outward looking, with Dr Stephen Hunt, who runs the Cambridge PGCE Classics course, Melinda Letts and Armand D’Angour involved in the Active Latin Teachers Conference held at Harrow, and we continued to be involved in training and assisting PGCSE students in Classics. The department also took part in the fifth annual Classics for All Teachers Conference, which was online in the summer. Nearly 50 maintained-school teachers from across the country attended the conference.

– Steven Kennedy, Head of Classics

The Head of School delivered the Contio

Computer sCienCe

The appetite for Computer Science grew, with another increase in the number of boys opting for the IGCSE, filling two divisions in both Remove and Fifth Form, an increase in the number of undergraduate applications among the Sixth Form, and a new Video Game Society created to link with the work of the Computer Science Society, in addition to a new Sixth Form Elective course on designing and building AI systems.

The Shell robotics course built on the Python fundamentals learnt earlier in the year, as boys applied algorithm design and programming principles to program Edison robots equipped with sensors to perform complex tasks. The new Introduction to AI Elective was among the most popular choices for boys in the Lower Sixth, and the supplemental course in scientific computing for Lower Sixth physicists proved useful preparation for university interviews and personal statements. Several boys entered the international Informatics Olympiad, with commendations awarded across the board.

Boys in the Remove year enjoyed creating their own projects in addition to their IGCSE studies, with projects as diverse as

Pacman arcade games, CS:Go multiplayer maps, RPG games and VR environments uploaded to the Steam gaming platform. The practical project complements the more

Design teChnology & engineering

At the start of the academic year, the department underwent some rebranding to better reflect what is being taught in the subject, now incorporating ‘Engineering’ into its title.

The department had great success in the F1 in Schools competition. Two teams made it through the regional heats to compete live on YouTube at the national finals, for which boys had to design the car for maximum speed within the regulations, create branding, gather sponsorship and much more. The project was a great success with boys picking up awards for marketing and research development of their cars.

Separately, more achievements were had with our Electric Racing team. The Greenpower competition encourages teams to build full-scale electric racing buggies that compete around wellknown race tracks up to speeds of

35mph. In only our second year of entering, the Silver Arrow team overcame some technical issues in their regional heats to reach the international final at Goodwood racetrack. The event consisted of four races around the track, with the main premise being efficiency to ensure the batteries didn’t run out.

It was great finally to have exam groups back for the first time since the pandemic, with GCSE and A-level students making full use of the workshop to develop and engineer their ideas.

Boys were lucky enough to have been given a Dragon’s Den-inspired opportunity to pitch and present their ideas to leading industry professionals such as Marc Bull, a partner at V2 Designs, at the end of the course. The boys gained fantastic feedback while developing some important presentation skills. Standing out among the projects

formal topics in the IGCSE, for which the performance set a new high during the year.

– Chris Crowe, Head of Computer Science

were a portable thicknesser/planner for small-scale businesses, and a humane insect farm for a more sustainable food source.

– Tom Knight, Head of Design Technology & Engineering

eConomiCs AnD Business

With 101 boys in the Lower Sixth choosing to study Economics in 2021/22, it was the largest A-level subject for the first time.

During activities week, 20 boys visited the new Goldman Sachs head office and were treated to a tour of its world-class, state-of-the-art facilities. The boys met traders on the vast trading floor and enjoyed a working lunch and a panel discussion hosted by Jim Esposito, Global Co-Head of the Investment Division. They then visited the Bank of England, which the boys had learnt much about in a pivotal year of rising inflation and interest rates. Boys studying Business enjoyed a trip to the Museum of Brands, which provided a nostalgic journey through 200 years of consumer culture. Following this, the boys visited Chelsea Football Club and completed some in-depth work on the business of football. Liron Chan and

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Boys took part in many competitions and events during the year, producing writing that showcased the creative and curious minds of so many Harrovians. There were more than 100 entries in the National Poetry Day 12-word competition on the theme of ‘Choices’, with the winning entry from Bode Kolawole (Newlands).

Our choices

Will make changes.

Eat organically, Shop locally, use

Our voices.

We thoroughly enjoyed reading the entries for the Winston Churchill Essay Prize, which asked boys to consider the prompt ‘Words are powerful: we must preserve the precision of the English language.’ The winning essays were from Aum Amin (Elmfield), June Hyun, Andy Law (both West Acre) and Jonathan Song (The Grove). The Jonathan Head Barrow short story prize was on the theme of ‘Futures’, leading to some excellent dystopic narratives. The winning stories were by Indi Abrams (The Grove), Zac Low (Bradbys), Oscar Wickham (The Head Master’s), Charlie Arnison (Moretons) and Tony Shi

Alonso Fontana (both The Grove) set up a fantastic virtual trading game. Zac Low (Bradbys) increased the value of his portfolio from $100,000 to $473,000, an extraordinary return and the best of 58 entrants. In contrast, 31 boys’ portfolios

fell in value. Several boys also travelled to the London School of Economics to see macroeconomic heavyweight Lawrence Summers discussing stagflation. – David Morgan, Head of Economics, and Kate Meathrel, Head of Business

(The Grove). We linked the Augustus Fleet poetry prize to the EDI Festival of Culture, asking boys to write poems that celebrated their own cultures. Winning poems were from Alexander Newman (Druries), Otto Marre (The Grove), Jonathan Ford (West Acre), Joseph McLean (Druries) and Que Zanjani (Druries).

A highlight of the year was taking divisions into the OSRG to see the 450 exhibition ‘Harrow 1572–2022’. Boys wrote short creative pieces inspired by the

exhibition, with the prize for the best writing going to Toni Shi. This year also saw the creation of the second volume of the Harrow Family Creative Writing Anthology, edited by Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) and Andrew Arthur (The Knoll), on the topic of history and legacy.

Guy Stagg (The Park 2001³), author of The Crossway, judged the Lady Bourchier Reading Prize, awarding first place to Alexander Newman and Omar Ait El Caid (Bradbys). The Learnt Poetry Prize was judged by Dr William Simpson and the audience was delighted by the high quality of the readings, particularly Rory Grant’s (Moretons) performance of Six War Letters by Julie Irigaray.

Photograph by Andrew CC-BY-SA-3.0

– Lucy Ashe, Head of English

Boys studying Business visited Chelsea Football Club

Summer 2022 - History and Legacy

Boys visited Shakespeare’s birthplace at Stratford-upon-Avon during Expeditions Week

geogrAphy

The department engaged in a large amount of fieldwork, making use of the School’s proximity to London and the resources available on the School site. Remove boys conducted research into fluvial dynamics on the River Chess and urban change across the ward of Notting Dale, with Xander Jones (West Acre) being recognised with the Remove Geography Prize for his superb engagement with these projects. Sixth Form boys travelled to Kings Cross, Queen Elizabeth Park, Canary Wharf and Great Missenden to prepare for their non-examined assessment and produced a range of exemplary projects. Freddie Taylor (Newlands) was awarded the Macnamara Prize for his top-scoring non-examined assessment in which he considered the impacts of the HS2 project on social inequality across urban areas in the Chilterns.

The annual Viscountess Strangford Essay Competition asked entrants to consider the title ‘Globalisation is already behind us. We should say goodbye to it and set our minds on the emerging multipolar world. (Michael O’Sullivan, 2019). To what extent do you agree that globalisation is dead?’ An impressive range of submissions were received, with Connor O’Flaherty (The Head Master’s) receiving the prize for best overall response.

history

Adiverse range of topics was taught as part of the curricula for all year groups, with focus in the Fifth Form and Upper Sixth being placed on public examination preparation for the first time since 2019. Shell boys learned about ‘Equality, justice and liberation through time’, which allowed them to study the trans-Atlantic slave trade, the history of Africa and relations between the Maori and European settlers in New Zealand. An independent learning opportunity in the Summer term saw boys producing some impressive digital projects on various aspects of the Great War.

In November, Harrow was represented by Joseph Wragg (The Grove), Henry

Lower School geographers competed in the South-East Region Geographical Association WorldWise quiz, which involves a University Challenge-style face-to-face quiz for teams of three students. Harrow entered three teams, who all performed admirably, with the team of Saarvin Cambatta-Mistry (Lyon’s), Fadi Junejo and captain Tomas Mugica Moreno (both The Knoll) beating 20 other teams to win first place. Ezekiel Akinsanya (Lyon’s) was one of ten students from the UK selected to take part in the Harvard Undergraduate International Relations Scholars Program. Ezekiel was appointed captain of his team,

which wrote a prize-winning best policy recommendation to help Sub-Saharan Africa’s COVID-19 recovery.

Freddie Taylor and Ezekiel Akinsanya were recognised with the Charles Laborde Prize for Geography and the S J Halliday Prize for all-round contribution respectively for their exemplary work in leading the senior Super-Curriculum, while Maahir Puri (Lyon’s) and Tomas Mugica Moreno were recognised with the E D Laborde Fifth Form Prize and the Lower School Geography Prize respectively for their leadership in the Lower School.

– Piers Lemoine, Head of Geography

Ridley (The Park), Aum Amin, Edward Blunt (both Elmfield), Fred Prickett (The Park) and Jin Park (The Knoll) in the International History Bee and Bowl, of which they were European Champions last year. In the European heats of the individual Bee round, Henry Ridley and Joseph Wragg came second and third respectively and proceeded to the European Championships. In the Bowl round, the team came second overall in the heats and also progressed to the European Championships. This was a fine achievement and built on what is now becoming a tradition of success in this competition.

The inaugural History Department Quiz in the Autumn term was attended

by over 30 boys. In June, the department ran a symposium on ‘The History of Pride’ which allowed boys an opportunity to discuss and reflect on the most important developments in the Pride movement over the past 50 years.

– Rob Potter, Head of History

Ezekiel Akinsanya captained a team that wrote a prize-winning policy recommendation to help Sub-Saharan Africa’s COVID-19 recovery

Photograph by World Bank collection, Sambrian Mbaabu CC-BY-SA-2.0

Photograph by Derren Hodson CC-BY-SA-2.0

The department ran a symposium on the history of Pride

history of Art

Not only was the prospect of exams novel for the Upper Sixth following a two-year hiatus, but the exam board, Pearson-Edexcel, was also new to the department. Boys were assessed in two intensive three-hour exams on their skills of visual analysis and their knowledge of the Italian Renaissance and early 20th-century European Modernism. The course also required boys to think more creatively, looking at works from across the global canon of art history in the thematic courses on ‘war’ and ‘identities’. We were excited to welcome the girls of Notting Hill and Ealing High School to the Hill for a conference on the Renaissance, in which students worked collaboratively before attending a lecture on Michelangelo’s Sistine ceiling. Although overseas trips were thwarted by the pandemic, the entire Art History cohort headed to the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery to celebrate the quincentenary of the artist’s death.

While competition season kicked off with an informal – but highly contentious – quiz in the OH Room we were delighted to be able to relaunch live ARTiculation competitions.

In the Autumn term, Joe Maclean (Druries) fought of stiff competition from rivals on such diverse subjects as ‘The fall of man’, Thomas Heatherwick, the theme of dementia in art and Hieronymus Bosch with his unique interpretation of Picasso’s Girl Before a Mirror. He went on expertly to represent the School at the online regional heat at the Courtauld Institute of Art. Meanwhile, the Junior competition in the Spring term was of an equally high calibre.

The adjudicator, Doro Globus, Managing Director of David Zwirner Books, particularly commended Luca Cox (West Acre) for his knowledgeable discussion of Damien Hirst’s NFTs, and Charlie Arnison (Moretons) for his topical presentation on Jan van Eyck’s iconic Anolfini Portrait, but it was Jonathan Ford (West Acre) and his dramatic defence of Chanel’s tweed suit who came out on top. – Juliet Bailey, Head of History of Art

James Macdonald gave a lecture on the Old Masters and also adjudicated the School final of Senior ARTiculation prize

History of Art students visited the National Gallery in London

Ahuge number of boys participated, and excelled, in the Senior and Intermediate Mathematics Challenges. In the Senior Challenge, the boys achieved 49 Gold, 67 Silver and 27 Bronze certificates. Liron Chan (The Grove) and Alex Chow (West Acre) came top of the School, scoring full marks. Twenty-seven boys went on to the second round and took the Senior Kangaroo Challenge. Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) was the top scorer, with seven others winning Merits, the highest certificate.

Twenty boys qualified for the British Mathematical Olympiad (BMO1), sharing ten Merits and three Distinctions between them. Of particular note were Brandon Chang (Druries), Yuzhen Yang (Rendalls) and Andy Li (Moretons), who all earned Distinctions. Yuzhen was placed inside the top 50 nationally. The five top scorers in the BMO1 qualified for the subsequent British Mathematical Olympiad round 2 (BMO2), where Oscar Wickham (The Head Master’s) scored highest and was awarded a well-deserved Merit.

In the Intermediate Mathematics Challenge, Harrovians achieved 84 Gold, 58 Silver and 44 Bronze certificates. Kiefer Yeo (The Head Master’s) and

Andy Li both scored full marks. Ninetynine boys qualified for various subsequent rounds, with 16 of these in the Olympiad papers.

Forty-two boys in the Remove and Fifth Form entered the Pink Kangaroo competition, with 11 boys securing Merits. Justin Changbencharoen (Lyon’s) topped the field. There were another 21 qualifiers for the Grey Kangaroo (for Shells), seven of whom obtained Merit certificates, with John Ye (Elmfield) the highest scorer.

In the Intermediate Olympiads, of the six entries in Maclaurin, the boys earned three Merits and three Distinctions, with Oscar Wickham and Vincent Song both awarded Bronze medals. In Hamilton, of the four entries, we awarded one Merit and two Distinctions. Andy Law (West Acre) earned himself a Silver medal and Larry Cao (Bradbys) a Bronze.

House Maths Competition winners

Senior: Druries (The Knoll second, The Grove third) Torpids: Druries (Bradbys second, The Head Master’s third) Shell: The Grove (Moretons second, The Knoll third)

In the hotly contested Hans Woyda Maths Competition, the School team defeated Claremont High School, North London Collegiate School, Notting Hill and Ealing School and Bancroft’s School before being knocked out in the quarter-finals by St Paul’s in a tight contest.

We hosted popular science and maths writer Dr Simon Singh for the annual Coutts Lecture Series. He presented talks on ‘Fermat’s Last Theorem – how to turn maths into a movie’ and ‘From Theorems to Serums, From Cryptology to Cosmology ... and The Simpsons’, which was an entertaining whistle-stop tour of two decades of the speaker’s bestselling books. Both talks were enthusiastically attended by boys and visitors.

This year’s internal Siddons Mathematics Competition was won by Yuk-Chiu Lai (Newlands, Remove) with a score of 6/7. The Snell Mathematics competition was jointly won by Oscar Wickham and Chris Liu (both The Head Master’s) with 7/7.

– Siew-Chiang Lim, Head of Mathematics

Dr Simon Singh with boys studying Mathematics

physiCs

As well as the full programme of talks arranged by the Science Society, the Lower Sixth heard from Dr Bartholomew Andrews, a theoretical physicist from UCLA who delivered a talk on ‘Computing with new phases of matter’. Dr Andrews spoke about the background to his own research on the quantum hall effect, picking up from the boys’ studies of electrical resistivity and taking them into new phases of matter and their application in quantum computing. He also offered the boys some sage advice regarding their study of physics and its highly transferable skills.

The year’s top five physicists were invited to attend a special colloquium at Queen Mary University of London, delivered by world-leading theoretical physicist Professor Nima Arkani-Hamed from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. Professor Arkani-Hamed spoke about recent developments in the calculation of scattering processes between fundamental particles. As part of their visit, the boys were able to discuss ideas informally with lecturers and PhD students, giving them a unique insight into life at university and in research.

A number of informal problems were again proposed by the Science Society secretaries, complementing beak Dr Rupert Allison’s regular ‘door problems’, which have a cult following. More formally, Dr Allison delivered a course on problem solving to Lower Sixth boys intending to apply for Physical Science courses at university.

In the British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) Round 1 paper, designed to challenge the top young physicists in the country, the Upper Sixth boys who took part achieved a very good set of results with Top Gold awards going to Brandon Chang (Druries) and Jack Joyce (The Knoll), putting them in the top 7% of the country. Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) achieved a Gold award. Silver awards went to six boys, while a further seven boys achieved Bronze awards. A further seven boys achieved Bronze awards. Brandon Chang and Jack Joyce were subsequently invited to participate in both Round 2 of the BPhO and in the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO). Jack was unfortunately indisposed on the day of the BAAO but achieved an excellent Silver award in the BPhO Round 2. Brandon achieved a Bronze in the BAAO and an outstanding Gold in Round 2, a rare achievement for any

cohort. As a result, Brandon was invited to attend a prestigious training camp at the University of Oxford for the selection of the International Physics Olympiad squad.

A few boys from other year groups also attempted the BPhO Round 1 paper and there were some real successes; Liron Chan (The Grove) in the Lower Sixth and Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) in the Fifth Form achieved Silver awards while Shawn Shen (Lyon’s) and Jack He (West Acre) in the Lower Sixth and Henry Webster (Druries) in the Fifth Form achieved Bronze awards.

All Upper Sixth physicists entered the BPhO Physics Challenge, with 20 of them achieving certificates of Merit, the highest award in this competition. The Lower Sixth and Fifth Forms boys who attempted the Round 1 paper were also awarded certificates of Merit in the Physics Challenge. In the Senior Physics Challenge aimed at the Lower Sixth, there were ten Gold, two Silver and 19 Bronze awards. The Gold award winners were Ayomide Awolesi (The Head Master’s), Alexander Chow (West Acre), David Liu (Bradbys), Jay Raithatha (Druries), Nurali Bibolat

ENGINEERING SCHEME

This year, three teams, comprising 18 Lower Sixth boys, were tasked with devising novel engineering solutions in the study of the following projects:

■ Designing a surroundings awareness system for the visually impaired

■ Development of a manually powered charging device

■ Investigating the feasibility of district cooling using absorption refrigerators The teams spent six months on

(Rendalls), Liron Chan, Chris Liu (The Head Master’s), Shawn Shen, Yuzhen Yang (Rendalls) and Jack He (West Acre).

In the Lower School, about 80 Fifth Form and Remove boys entered the Intermediate Physics Challenge. The top scorers were Fifth Formers Henry Webster, Vincent Song, and Michel Quist (The Grove) who all achieved Gold awards. Jaden Lim (The Head Master’s), who also achieved a Gold award, deserves special congratulation as he was in the year below the level of the competition.

– James Bedford, Head of Physics

extra-curricular research and development, followed by an intensive write-up weekend. The finished reports were written using professional typesetting software, with a view to having the same look and sophistication as an undergraduate academic report. The reports were submitted to the British Science Association’s CREST Gold Awards for evaluation.

– Robert Unwin, Head of Engineering

Brandon Chang took part in a Physics training camp at Oxford

Two Harrovians took part in the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad

politiCs

The department continued to deliver challenging lessons to boys who, as ever, were keen to keep their beaks on their toes. The welcome return of public exams saw the familiar pattern of the academic year return, with boys in the Upper Sixth working with ever-increasing diligence and energy as the summer approached. Away from the exam divisions, boys in the Lower Sixth

made a strong start to their studies, while the Fifth Form Elective programme continued to offer boys in the Lower

theology & philosophy

We gave much thought to integrating the principles of Curriculum 2025 into our existing curricula provision, and in particular how the cognitive, digital and social literacies could be embedded into the day-to-day form room experience.

We also sought to challenge perceptions, particularly with digital literacy. How could we possibly contribute to and develop the

boys’ digital literacy? What possibly could a boy learn in this subject that could help him to code, say? The reality is that anyone who codes knows that logic and reasoning is fundamental to programming, without which a program will not function.

In the Shell year, the boys started a course in Ancient Greek philosophy. We have found that the majority of the

School an opportunity to gain an insight into the subject.

– Alastair

of Politics

boys have never studied Philosophy before; however, studying Philosophy allows the boys to grasp important concepts and skills that give them the foundations for Theology and their other subjects.

Hearteningly, we discovered that the boys love Philosophy, and many parents told us that much of what is taught in our forms rooms was discussed by their sons at the dinner table.

After introducing the key ideas of Socrates and Plato, we moved on to examining the work of Aristotle. We contended that Aristotle’s work on logic and reasoning set the stage for the technological advancements that we see today and that underpin the innovations of tomorrow. Getting the boys to practise the rules of logic, reasoning and inference gave them the tools to be logical, to develop cogent arguments and understand the key principles that are necessary to programming code that works. And those skills are not just relevant to coding, but to many other disciplines.

Many boys also wanted to further their interest outside the form room, and boys entered Oxbridge and the John Locke Institute essay competitions, took part in the Royal Institute of Philosophy conferences, and presented papers for debate at the Gore Society or for publication in the department’s journal. The subject is now one of the most popular at GCSE and A-level.

– John McAleer, Head of Theology & Philosophy

Cook, Head

Aristotle

Photograph by Terry Ott CC-BY-SA-2.0

VAughAn liBrAry

We were all delighted to be back in the Vaughan Library, with high hopes of a normal school year ahead of us. There was a lot to look forward to and we promoted our environmental collections and the School’s drive towards a sustainable future with an ‘Environment’ display coinciding with COP26 in Glasgow, showcasing our collections’ range of challenging books and contemporary viewpoints.

This was followed by a Festival of Culture, which was inspired by boys wishing to celebrate all the cultures that make up Harrow. We provided a rich and diverse collection of literature to reflect the backgrounds of the boys and staff who work at the School.

The 450th anniversary of the School was an opportunity to celebrate Old Harrovian authors and we put together a display of past and contemporary authors. It was really inspiring to see such a wide range of talented authors and with such wideranging interests. Travel books dominated the collection, with history, literature and sciences not far behind. This complemented the 450 Anthology and the 450 Photographs books, which were both launched in the Vaughan. We also worked with the Drama Department to put on displays in both the Vaughan Library and the Ryan Theatre related to the Rattigan Society production of Chariots of Fire

On World Book Day, we had quizzes and literary challenges in the Vaughan and online for the boys and staff. There were international flags, famous first lines and book covers to identify, with the Head Master and Monitors reading to the boys in Speech Room.

We continued to provide Quick Reads, which are shorter books by well-known contemporary authors, and we launched Friday Fiction to inspire the younger boys with a list of six books on a theme (adventure, fantasy, horror, comedy) that we thought they might enjoy reading.

Big Jubilee Reads was an initiative by the Reading Agency and the BBC to celebrate the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. It listed the best books from each decade and from throughout the Commonwealth. This was very popular at School and was a great way to find new authors and re-read classics.

A Pride Festival of books in the Vaughan ended our Summer term as we highlighted our LGBQT+ collections with rainbows, banners and an array of summer reads for the whole School community.

On Speech Day, we had over 450 visitors to the Vaughan, and 630 books were ordered as prizes for Speech Day. The most popular authors were Friedrich Nietzsche, Richard Feynman, Noah Yuval Harari, George Orwell, Jared Diamond, Ernest Hemingway, J R R Tolkien and Simon Singh. Music was a popular choice, with Wagner and Bach being the most-requested composers. The most popular titles were:

■ Beyond Good and Evil by Friedrich Nietzsche

■ Nineteen Eighty-Four by George Orwell

■ Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari

■ Fermat’s Last Theorem by Simon Singh

■ The Great Gatsby by F Scott Fitzgerald

■ The Wheel of Time series by Robert Jordan – Marie Staunton, Head of Library and Archive

super-CurriCulum

GENDER SYMPOSIUM

Boys in the Lower Sixth joined girls from Notting Hill and Ealing High School at the Royal Society for a joint symposium on the theme of ‘Gender Like You’ve Never Seen It Before’. This entailed exploring one of six chosen subject areas, such as law or classics, and completing a research task focusing on gender within the topic. The questions assigned allowed ample space for independent investigation, which was conducted in students’ own time. Each group was assigned a member of teaching staff if any advice were required. There were 11 lectures throughout the course of the afternoon on the following topics:

■ English: To what extent does Shakespeare’s model of wild, cruel nature in King Lear and The Tempest correspond to the model of womanhood portrayed in these plays?

■ Classics: To what extent is there a direct link between the descriptions of Hermaphrodites in Ovid’s Metamorphoses and the visual language of The Sleeping Hermaphrodite in the Louvre?

■ Law: Compare and contrast the social and legal frameworks around the Two Spirit Indigenous people of North America, and the Hijra’s of India. How were the perceptions of these groups transformed by colonialism?

■ History of Art: How does the historical context of women’s shifting place in French society between 1852 and 1900 inform the way you understand Manet’s 1882 painting A Bar at the Folies-Bergère?

■ Economics: Explain the use for microfinance in tackling the poverty of women, and use your sources to critically examine the concerns that have been raised about it.

■ Biology: Explain the evolutionary rationale and biomechanical mechanisms which lead to changes in sex expression of Acer pensylvanicum. What could the implications of this be for forestry conservation?

■ Psychology: What biological, sociocultural and cognitive factors contribute towards differences in diagnosis of Autism Spectrum Condition in males and females?

■ Natural Science: In some insects, one isomer attracts the opposite sex of that species while the opposite isomer repels the opposite sex of another species. Examine the role of optical isomerism in these chemical interactions. To what extent does this apply in human beings?

■ Medicine: Anaesthesia for lower-segment caesarean sections.

■ Mathematics: What do physicists and mathematicians mean by a ‘phase transition’, both with respect to states of matter and more general complex systems? What are the differences between a first-order and second-order phase transition? Detail the application of these concepts to the state changes of one or more real-world applications.

■ Fine Art: Van Eyck’s The Arnolfini Portrait (1434) and Richard Hamilton’s Just what is it that makes today’s homes so different, so appealing? (1956) – is it arguable that these two images are part of a sequence? Produce an image that is a modern part in this sequence.

Prizes were awarded based on various aspects, such as engaging performance or the best-produced slides. The overall winner of engagement with the question was the Fine Art group, in particular for their excellent supplementary artwork.

LEXANDER SOCIETY MILITARY HISTORY

Among the speakers during the year were Shaan Nagra (The Grove) who gave a talk on ‘The unanticipated Japanese triumph in the Russo-Japanese War’, Jack Artis (The Head Master’s), who discussed the impact of the Battle of Rorke’s Drift on the Zulu War, Leo Waschkuhn (Lyon’s) who described the German PZ III tank and its effect during WWII, and Joseph Wragg (The Grove) who explored the Thirty Years’ War. Harrow Chaplain Fr Stuart Seaton gave a talk on ‘Religion, violence and the origins of suicide bombing’, in which he argued that religion in not a dangerous force and a cause of violence.

ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY

The Architecture Society’s Secretaries Henry Oelhafen (Lyon’s) and Jack O’Connor (Druries) invited architect Doug Patterson to speak about his career and his architectural design practice, which specialises in marine design and private residential properties. He

ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY

The society ran several internal events, starting off the year with a very popular quiz night, followed by exciting monthly lectures from a number of boys. There was a huge variety of topics ranging from nebulae to wormholes. Many observatory sessions were held, giving the boys the chance to explore the state-of-the-art Rayleigh Observatory and use the telescopes to take pictures of celestial objects.

spoke about his projects across the world, including the USA, Tajikistan, Saudi Arabia, Egypt, Russia, Cuba, India, Greece and other European countries. Boys also gave regular lectures and seminars, including Maxi Gardner (The Grove) who spoke about ‘Parametricism’, a term used to describe free-form architectural concepts featuring sweeping lines, irregular shapes and curves, which often give a futuristic or out-of-this-world character to a building. Hans Patel (Newlands) presented on the divisive mid-20th-century architectural style of Brutalism, with a particular focus on the Brutalist architecture of the Barbican Centre. Gabriel Lam (Moretons) spoke about the impact of sustainability on architecture today. The culmination of the year was a guided tour around the Oxford Botanic Garden with a focus on the architectural structures of plants and their correlation to the designs of Thomas Heatherwick’s practice.

ALEXANDER SOCIETY

THE ALEXANDER SOCIETY welcomes SPS

‘Religion, violence and the origins of su i ci de b omb i ng ’

ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY

Hans Patel (Newlands) BRUTALIST BARBICAN ARCHITECTURE SOCIETY

Maxi Gardner (The Grove) PARAMETRICISM: A TREND IN MODERN ARCHITECTURE

Tuesday, 22 March, 5 pm, OS2

Fr Stuart Seaton RELIGION, VIOLENCE AND THE ORIGINS OF SUICIDE BOMBING

Tuesday 22 March, 5pm Old Schools 2

Barbican Towers

Thursday 17 March, 5pm Pasmore Gallery

German PZ III tank

CASPIAN SOCIETY HISTORY, CULTURE AND AFFAIRS OF COUNTRIES SURROUNDING THE CASPIAN SEA

In addition to a few events co-hosted with the Slavonic Society, the Caspian Society also treated its members and guests to a few of their own lectures. One of them, ‘Caviar: The Food of the Gods’, was devoted to the history and tradition of caviar consumption as well as its modern production and sale. This fascinating presentation, researched and delivered by Danial Aspandiiarov (Bradbys) and Alnur Abuov (Druries) was followed by a degustation of different types of caviar, including some truly exquisite ones, served with

CLASSICAL SOCIETY

The society welcomed Dr Anna Blomley of New College, Oxford, for a talk on ‘The archaeology of Greek warfare: unearthing ancient conflicts’, during which she presented some new discoveries on Greek fortifications from her own archaeological dig in Thessaly. At a joint event with the Evans Society, Jiho Ro (The Park) discussed how myth and reality are intertwined in stories about the Trojan War. The two societies also held a joint quiz night with questions about ancient history, Greek and Latin. The society joined forces with the Italian Society for a two-part lecture, with Henry Ridley (The Park) delivering ‘Empire

blinis and home-made bread. Another, more sober, event was Danial Aspandiiarov’s insightful and thoughtprovoking talk on the genocide of Kazakhs in the Soviet Union in the 1930s. Known as the Asharshylyq Genocide, it is an aspect of Soviet history that is still rarely discussed and largely unknown, even among the Kazakhs, despite the fact that it killed over a quarter of the country’s population, forever transforming its make-up and its traditional way of life.

CHESS CLUB

The School entered the National Schools Chess Championship via an online qualifier, and progressed against some strong opposition through their regional section before meeting the University College School A team in the semi-final, losing out by an agonising 2½ points to 3½. For the first time, we hosted a regional final of the Team Chess Challenge, which proved to be a very successful event; Harrow entered three teams, the first of which came third.

Internally, the House championship was hotly contested, with Lyon’s edging out West Acre 7-5 in the final. In the individual intra-School tournament, Liron Chan (The Grove) won all seven of his games to secure the title of champion convincingly. There were some very strong performances from other team members, including Remove Aditya Asnani (West Acre), Fifth Former Vlad Plyushchenko (The Grove) and Shell Harry Winward (Lyon’s), who all shared joint second.

to Italy Part 1: How the Romans turned into Italians’, and Antonio da Silveira Pinheiro (The Park) speaking on ‘Empire to Italy Part 2: How Latin turned into Italian’. Arthur Pilkington (Rendalls) discussed the Greek leader Pericles. Sean Jarrett (The Grove) gave a talk on ‘The influence of ancient engineering on the modern world’ to members of both the Classical and Da Vinci Societies. Antonio da Silveira Pinheiro and Jiho Ro curated some of the Cretan and other Classical Greek material found in the Old Speech Room Gallery and installed a new Crete exhibit in the Deno Leventis Library.

Boys gave a lecture on different types of caviar

Members of the Chess Club

COMPUTER SCIENCE SOCIETY

The Computer Science Society enjoyed a highly successful year, hosting notable speakers and bringing significant projects to fruition. The year featured the debut of the society’s cutting-edge, highperformance AI machine and AI centre, accompanied by a well-attended lecture series on Tensorflow and related machinelearning technologies. Team Enigma introduced Project Eco, using neural networks to track the impact of air quality on boys’ wellbeing and academic performance. Boys delivered talks on

topics ranging from the engineering of Apple’s innovative M1 chip to the cycle of software development in industry. The society was particularly proud to host Mr Henrique Olifiers, CEO of the BAFTAwinning Bossa Studios, who lectured on game design and development. Another notable event was the Harrow 450 Hackathon, in which the society invited thousands of Harrovians across the Harrow International Schools to participate in a day of problem solving and coding challenges.

CRAWLEY SOCIETY CURRENT AFFAIRS

Subjects of talks by boys during the year included the political influence of the Murdoch dynasty, politicians’ reasons for suggesting the BBC should be abolished, social justice, Boris Johnson, and the idea that the West and East are at war.

DA VINCI SOCIETY ENGINEERING

The da Vinci society held a number of boy-led engineering-themed talks, allowing volunteers to develop their presentation skills and demonstrate their enthusiasm for engineering. Highlights included Jonathan Riddell-Webster’s (The Grove) talk on the design of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane, and Sean Jarrett’s (The Grove) talk on ‘Engineering in the ancient world and how it has influenced the Modern era’. Members of the society also hosted Dr Peter Huthwaite of Imperial College London, who gave a fascinating talk on ultrasound techniques used in medicine and engineering.

HDT funded the Computer Science Society’s high performance PC.

Henry Riddell-Webster gave a talk on the design of the Supermarine Spitfire fighter plane

Henrique Olifiers of Bossa Studios

One of the Crawley Society talks was on the subject of Boris Johnson

Photograph by Airwolfhound CC-BY-SA-2.0

DEBATING SOCIETY

The first debate of the year took place between four Old Harrovians – Theodore Seely (The Head Master’s 2015³), Will Travis (The Head Master’s 2013³), Hari Rattan (The Knoll 2013³) and Adam Ait El Caid (Druries 2016³) – and the School team. The School proposed the motion ‘This house regrets the invasion of Afghanistan’.

The team of Upper Sixth Formers Aakash Aggarwal, Dylan Winward (both Lyon’s) and William Wauchope (The Knoll) won the second round of the English-Speaking Union (ESU) debating competition. They defeated Notting Hill and Ealing Girls School and St Helen’s and Featherstone High School, opposing the motion ‘This house would ban gambling’, and went on to represent the School in the regional finals. Alexander Newman (Druries), Andrew Arthur (The Knoll) and Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) made it through to the final of the ESU’s Churchill Public Speaking Competition. Harrow hosted the inaugural Nehru Cup, a British parliamentary-style debating competition featuring 12 pairs of debaters from

EVANS SOCIETY ANCIENT HISTORY

During an active year for the society, Archie Tait (The Head Master’s) gave ‘A beginners guide to ancient religions’, and Alexander Newman (Druries) and Fred Prickett (The Park) spoke on subjects relating to Alexander the Great. Bruce Boucher, Director of Sir John Soane’s Museum, spoke to the society about 18th-century reception of vases from antiquity. Classics beak Ms Ellice Hetherington gave a talk that explored the rewriting of Homeric poetry during the Byzantine era. Food was the subject of a meeting in which Academic and Universities Director Hannah Fox looked at what the average Roman ate and gave those attending the chance to cook and try some of these ancient dishes. Judith Nugée, formerly of Christie’s auction house and advisor to the British Museum’s Treasure Valuation Committee, gave a talk on ‘Life in antiquities: tales of treasure, trade and tablets’. Andrew

schools such as Winchester and St Paul’s. The standard of debating was very high, and Winchester College eventually came out on top to win the cup, with the Harrow pair of Haiwei Li (Bradby’s) and William Wauchope coming joint third of 24 debaters on individual speaker points. There were a number of talks and masterclasses with outside debating experts. These included a debating masterclass on debate evaluation with Paul Caroll, President of London’s only debatefocused toastmasters club, and a masterclass with political campaigner Kieran Dunn on the subject of ‘Debating and the media’, which covered his work on the BBC show Question Time. Ioanna Maraki, Policy and Programme Lead for NHS England, gave a talk on debating medical ethics, which covered the pillars of medical ethics, the ethical rules that doctors must follow, how to debate in medical ethics, and some case studies.

Griffith-Jones of the Classics Department explained the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War using international relations theories from the 20th and 21st centuries and applied them, along with examples from Greece in the fifth century BCE, to modern events such as the Cold War and the Russia–Ukraine war.

Boys had the chance to try popular Roman dishes

EVANS SOCIETY Miss H R Fox DOWN AT THE THERMOPOLIUM – STREET FOOD AND WINE IN POMPEII

Thursday 21 April, 9.10pm Deno Leventis Library

EOGRAPHY SOCIETY

The Geography Society hosted 12 lectures and events over the course of the academic year on the overarching theme of sustainability and Earth’s future. The topics discussed were broad in scope and included highlights such as ‘The future of food and sustainability’ by Freddie Taylor and Rafe Hogben (both Newlands); ‘How food waste impacts climate change’ by Kanta Morishige and Finlay Douglas (both Newlands); ‘Climate change and sport: is the future of sport being threatened?’ by Connor O’Flaherty (The Head Master’s) and Casper Stone (The Park); ‘A deep dive into the impact of plastic pollution on the marine environment’ by Arsène Cherpion and Harry Morse (both West Acre). Speakers

GOLLAND SOCIETY SCHOOL ARCHIVE

The Golland Society was named after English beak Jim Golland who was instrumental in the development of the School Archive, which celebrated its 40th anniversary last year. The society was initially created by the first qualified archivist, Rita Gibbons, and suffered a hiatus after her retirement until being reintroduced in 2021 at the request of the boys. Since its revival, the society has teamed up with Shaftesbury Enterprise to work with the Chelsea Pensioners on a valuable heritage project. Stage one of

consistently made attempts to identify not only the current issue but also realistic solutions, many of which could be implemented by individuals. The highlight of the year’s programme was the Cultural Diversity event. This aimed to showcase the significant diversity seen at

Harrow. Connor O’Flaherty, Will Howitt (Lyon’s), Tom Haworth, Kyan Simpson (both The Knoll) and Xander Jones (West Acre) were all awarded a Geography Society tie.

– Connor

O’Flaherty

the project entails recording all the data from the School Chapel memorials and putting that information into a searchable digital ‘map’ that allows you discover more about individuals named on boards in different areas of the Chapel. The plan is to move on to the Fourth Form Room and then Saint Mary’s churchyard. In addition to this project, there were talks from members of the society and external speakers, and the boys learned how to use primary sources and how to support the maintenance of the Archive.

GORE SOCIETY THEOLOGY AND PHILOSOPHY

Many senior members of the society chose to give talks during the year. Among them, William Wauchope (The Knoll) spoke on the subject of ‘Peter Singer’s preference utilitarianism: should animals have rights?’, and Brandon Chang (Druries) and Zak Banton (Newlands) gave talks on the nature of freedom and free will respectively. Lucas Maia (Druries) discussed ‘Emile Durkheim and the sociological study of religion’.

Members of the Geography Society

Members of the Golland Society worked with Chelsea Pensioners to record data from the School Chapel memorials

Émile Durkheim

ITALIAN SOCIETY

The Italian Society hosted a considerable number of talks by the boys during the Spring and Summer terms. The first lecture was delivered by Hanno Sie (Newlands) on ‘The history of Italian cinema’. In March, Antonio da Silveira (The Park) and Harry Burt (Moretons) addressed an audience of Harrovians and students from Notting Hill and Ealing High School on ‘The transition from Latin to modern Italian’ and ‘Italy, a country of one language and a hundred dialects’. After Easter, August De Lencquesaing and Milo Walker (both Bradbys) spoke about ‘Ferrari and the

LP HARTLEY SOCIETY CREATIVE WRITING

Among the society’s writing activities, a talk and writing workshop was delivered by Luca Cox (West Acre). It was titled ‘Silo: using claustrophobic language to convey a sense of entrapment’. Que Akhavan Zanjani (Druries) examined writing through the lens of Freudian theory in his talk ‘The narrative lens and its discontent’.

man behind it’. In May, Leonardo Polese (The Head Master’s) gave a talk on ‘The Italian national team of football’. Later in May, Arturo Saville (Rendalls) addressed the audience on the preoccupying phenomenon of ‘The return of the far-right in Italy’. Finally, in June, Giancarlo Urselli (The Grove) delivered the last talk of the academic year on ‘The history of Italian comedy’. Other events organised by the society included a joint talk with the Classical Society and watching the Italian football cup final.

MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY

The society hosted many talks by boys. They varied from the sporty ‘Maths of basketball’ by Joshua Soyemi (The Head Master’s) and the statistical ‘The art of misinformation’ by Oscar Wickham (The Head Master’s) to the more serious ‘Riemann Hypothesis’ by Yuzhen Yang (Rendalls) and Vincent Song’s (The Head Master’s) historical talk on ‘The number as old as Harrow: how 450 years of i has changed our world’, to name just a few.

JUNIOR LABORDE SOCIETY LOWER SCHOOL GEOGRAPHY

The Junior Laborde Society enjoyed lectures on the physical landscape of the Jurassic Coast, the role of geography in shaping US superpower status, the rise of popularism and its impact on geopolitics, and how volcanoes have affected people’s lives throughout history.

Enzo Ferrari at Greenwich

Photograph by Mr Choppers CC-BY-SA-3.0

Members of the Junior Laborde Society

One Mathematical Society talk was on the ‘Maths of basketball’

OLD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY ARTS SOCIETY

Membership of the OSRG Arts Society increased steadily through 2022.

Members spent an afternoon at 17th-century Kenwood House on Hampstead Heath, as well as enjoying such diverse attractions as the Wellcome Collection and the Heath Robinson Museum. They visited the British Museum for its World of Stonehenge exhibition, and the V&A’s Fashioning Masculinities, an exhibition of men’s fashions throughout the ages. They also explored the work of Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer at the National Gallery. Joining forces with the Equality, Diversity and Inclusion Society, they heard from Professor Richard Parkinson of Queen’s College, Oxford, whose talk on ‘LGBTQ+: its history and heritage’ ranged widely across cultures and historical eras from Ancient Egypt onwards.

MEDICAL SOCIETY

The Medical Society was ably led by Secretary Nicklas Høst-Verbraak (The Head Master’s). The enthused and reliably interactive audience were treated to weekly talks on subjects including nerve agents, xenotransplantation, battlefield medicine, implantable cardioverter defibrillators, headaches, telomeres, anaesthetics, vaccines, senescence, Alzheimer’s disease, kidney transplants, medieval medicine in the Middle East, neuro-criminology, paralysis, heart disease and flatulence. Beaks Dr Maxwell and Mr Vanhaesbroek also gave insightful and accessible discussions on medical careers and computational fluid dynamics respectively.

In the Autumn term, Harrow hosted Wycombe Abbey and Radley College for the Medical Lecture Competition. Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) and Nicklas Høst-Verbraak both received high praise from independent adjudicators for their presenting style and subject matter. Nicklas was awarded first place for his exploration of child psychology

MEDICAL SOCIETY

Data Photpipat (The Head Master’s) HEART DISEASE: AN INSIGHT INTO HEART DISEASE, THE STRUCTURE AND FUNCTION OF THE HEART

in refugee children. This was no mean feat, given that the last Harrovian to win the cup was back in 2014.

The year finished with a fantastic trip to the Griffen Institute, with boys learning about a patient’s (often delayed) treatment pathway through the NHS. Suturing, laparoscopic surgery and cutting-edge robotic surgery were all given test runs by the group, with plenty of fun hands-on challenges and no patients harmed.

Kenwood House

Members of the Old Speech Room Gallery Arts Society

Nerve agents were the topic of one Medical Society talk

Monday 16 May, 9.10pm Biology Schools 3

Photograph by Bert Kaufmann CC BY-NC 2.0

Photograph by Federico Candoni CC-BY-SA-4.0

ORIENTAL SOCIETY

The society was excited to welcome the world-renowned and prize-winning Chinese author Ma Jian at one of its meetings. Mr Jian spoke about his latest novel, China Dream, and why he decided to become a writer in 1984. China Dream is a dystopian novel that closely examines the effects on Chinese society of current government policies. Talks by members included a comparison of classical poems from the East and West by Chris Liu (The Head Master’s) and a description of the career of the actor Bruce Lee by Alex Banfield (The Knoll). Jerry Qi (The Park) gave two talks on contemporary Chinese culture, one exploring why the Chinese government has limited the time people can play video games, and the other on the reasons for its crackdown on K-pop and other celebrity fan clubs. Other talks included:

■ ‘The demise of the Chinese business giants: Alibaba and Evergrande’ by Liron Chan (The Grove)

■ ‘A brief history of ancient Chinese poetry: from Qu Yuan to Li Bai’ by Tony Shi (The Grove)

■ ‘How liberal is Singapore’s democracy and to what extent does Singapore’s democratic deficit extend?’ by Benjamin Thu Ya (Elmfield)

■ ‘Akira Kurosawa, the greatest action filmmaker of all time’ by Rowland Eveleigh (The Grove)

■ ‘A history of Xinjiang; China’s ethnic minorities’ by Kevin Dong (The Knoll).

At a joint meeting of the Oriental Society and Motorsport Society, Jerry Qi and Alexander Banfield spoke about Guanyu Zhou, China’s first-ever F1 driver.

PALMERSTON SOCIETY POLITICS

The academic year started with Alex Aldrich-Blake (West Acre) addressing the society on AUKUS and its impact on the Pacific balance of power. This was followed by Baba Obatoyinbo (The Knoll), who explored political corruption in Nigeria. Fin Smith (The Knoll) gave the society his thoughts on the then forthcoming French presidential election.

Alongside these excellent boy-led events, society members also welcomed Lady Arden, who gave a fascinating account of the Supreme Court, and Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach of Ireland, who spoke about the Good Friday Agreement and the challenge of achieving peace in Northern Ireland.

PEEL SOCIETY LOWER SCHOOL HISTORY AND POLITICS

The Peel Society met regularly to discuss a range of historical and political issues. Through a series of events and lectures by boys, the society explored the theme of ‘Persuasion and propaganda’ in the Autumn term, ‘Giants of Old’ in the Spring term and ‘The second Elizabethan Age’ in the Summer term to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee. There were 14 meetings over the course of the academic year, including discussion evenings on whether propaganda did more harm than good in the 20th century and whether ‘great man’ history still has a place. There was also a special event to mark Holocaust Memorial Day in the Spring term.

Bertie Ahern, former Taoiseach

Queen Elizabeth II

Members of the Oriental Society

PIGOU SOCIETY ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS

The Pigou Society invited a wide range of external speakers including Nick Lawson, CEO of Oceanwall, who spoke about hedgefunds, lithium and uranium, emphasising where money can be made through information arbitrage. Felix Odey from Schroders came to talk about financial markets, global energy and renewables. He also spoke about thematic investing, which linked nicely to a talk by Jeremy Lawson, Chief Economist at Aberdeen Standard Investments. Mr Lawson explained how climate scenarios can be built into investment decision making. Continuing the sustainability theme, Lindsay McKercher, Senior Head of Technical Ethical and Sustainability at Urban Outfitters, explained the challenges in the fashion industry of transitioning to more sustainable materials and making product development more sustainable using technology. Steve Davies from the IEA discussed ‘The economics of virtual worlds: the case of EVE online’. Edward Blunt (Elmfield) did a superb job of leading the society with his committee including Aakash Aggarwal (Lyon’s), Issah Merchant (The Knoll) and Leon Kinaro (Moretons).

Talks given by boys included:

■ Edward Blunt (Elmfield) – ‘Greed and government: what was to blame for the Great Recession?’

■ Harry O’Shea (Druries) – ‘Dogecoin: how an internet meme turned into a digital currency’

■ Theo Tomlinson (Moretons) –’The economics of Formula One’

■ Alexander Newman (Druries), ‘Sell me this pen: the secret of sales’

■ Aakash Aggarwal (Lyon’s) – ‘Game Theory: how to always win’

■ Joshua Soyemi (The Head Master’s) –‘NFTs and how a JPEG file sold for $69 million’

■ Maxim Van Aeken (Newlands) –‘Money and morals, can you have both?’

■ Jerry Qi (The Park) – ‘Bankruptcy: what happens when you go bankrupt?’

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■ Alex Seely (The Head Master’s) –“Grapes to gold, is there profit to be made making wine?’

■ Zac Low (Bradbys) – ‘Why Turkey is not fixing its hyperinflation’

■ Walid Nsouli and Timur Magomedov (both The Knoll): ‘The business of UFC: how a backyard brawl organisation became a multi-billiondollar mixed martial arts empire’

■ Luca Cox (West Acre), ‘The trading market of trainers and other atypical assets’

■ Connor O’Flaherty and Ayobami Awolesi (both The Head Master’s) –‘Monet: how the internet has revolutionised starting a business’

■ Jun Wha Shin (Elmfield) – ‘The rise and fall of Lehman Brothers’

■ Liam Rienow (Bradbys) – ‘How pharmaceutical pricing could kill you’

Pigou

PERCEVAL SOCIETY AFRICAN AND CARIBBEAN CULTURE AND HISTORY

CIENTIFIC SOCIETY

Lectures given to the society by boys during the year included:

■ 'Determinism in physics: classical mechanics' – Jonathan Barley (The Grove)

■ 'Determinism in physics: quantum mechanics' – Jonathan Barley (The Grove)

■ 'The astonishing science of scuba diving' – Ralph Lubbe (The Grove)

■ 'What is quantum spin?' – Edward Cleeve (Lyon’s)

■ 'Aerogel: the stuff of miracles' – Chris Liu (The Head Master’s)

■ 'The feasibility of solar panels' – Aaron Patel (The Knoll)

■ 'Alive and beeping: the secret lives of creative machines' – Vincent Song (The Head Master’s)

■ 'Special relativity: your guide to time travel' – Shawn Shen (Lyon’s)

■ 'Explosives: everything you can find out, without being flagged!' – Archie Kyd (The Park)

■ 'Nanomaterials and how they will change the future' – Akachi Anyanwu (The Grove)

■ 'On the matter of sleep' – Leo GordonPullar (Newlands)

■ 'The snowflake mystery: how do snow crystals vary in shape?' – Ray Moon (West Acre)

■ 'From HVOs to algal oils: biofuels and their role in decarbonisation' – Chris Liu (The Head Master’s)

■ 'SpaceX: taking humans to Mars' –Liron Chan (The Grove)

■ 'Nuclear fusion: the future of energy' –Christopher Francis (Druries)

The society enjoyed a lecture from Dr Erica McAlister, Senior Curator for Diptera and Siphonaptera (flies and fleas) at the Natural History Museum in London and President of the Amateur Entomologists Society, whose ‘An introduction to the small but mighty’ gave a fascinating insight into the vital importance of these insects. Biology beak Olivia Brayley delivered a talk based on her PhD thesis: ‘Illuminating the problem of light pollution on animal behaviour and circadian rhythms’.

Finalists in the Senior Science Lecture Competition were Aum Amin (Elmfield), who spoke on ‘Carboxy-killer – the PFOA story’, Inigo Doyle (The Park) with ‘Gene therapy as a treatment for Huntingdon’s Disease’, and Chris Liu discussing ‘To power a plane with plants – is biodiesel the fuel of the future?’. The adjudicator, Dr Christopher White, Deputy Director of Education at Queen Mary University of London, praised the very high standard of the lectures and awarded the prize to Aum Amin.

SCULPTURE SOCIETY

The Sculpture Society welcomed Sarah Tombs, a remarkably versatile artist who has produced many major public commissions, both nationally and internationally. During her visit, Tombs delivered a lecture and a workshop on steel construction; the boys worked in collaboration to create a steel piece that became part of the Sculpture Trail for the Harrow 450 Community Day. Alongside this, the society invited Max Lamb to exhibit his work. Lamb, who has a workshop on the Hill, is a furniture designer and sculptor who combines traditional, often primitive, design methods with digital design. He is known for employing unusual approaches to using natural materials, which include volcanic rock and pouring pewter onto sand. Three of his works were on display outside The Grove.

SHERIDAN SOCIETY ENGLISH LITERATURE AND LANGUAGE

The Crossway, a powerful account of his journey from Canterbury to Jerusalem, walking over 5,500km through ten countries, was the subject of a Sheridan Society talk by Guy Stagg (The Park 2001³). English beak

Thomasin Bailey discussed female authorship and the acceptance of women in intellectual and wider social circles in her talk ‘Dancing in a net: female authorship in the 17th century’.

Members of the Scientific Society

Dr Erica McAlister

A sculpture by Max Lamb outside The Grove

SLAVONIC CULTURAL SOCIETY

RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND EASTERN EUROPE

In the Autumn term, society members Archie Powell (The Grove) and Tamir Zolboo (The Head Master’s) delivered the lecture ‘The eastern heart of the Russian soul, or how the Mongols shaped the Rus’, accompanied with a feast of Russian pirozhki. The lecture emphasised the impact of the Tartar Yoke on the shape of modern Russia. Vadim Gurinov (The Grove) spoke about ‘Gorbachev – the man who rebuilt the empire or the one who lost it?’. Thomas Hobbs (Newlands) and Alnur Abuov (Druries) presented two very different ex-Soviet republics, Lithuania and Kazakhstan, just over 30 years after gaining their independence, and evaluated their current prosperity and position on the world stage. The term ended with all the society members gathered to watch the film Silver Skates while enjoying an abundance of Eastern European delicacies.

The beginning of the Spring term was marked with a visit from Her Excellency the Latvian Ambassador to the United Kingdom Ms Ivita Burmistre, who spoke about Latvia’s past as well as about the country’s place in modern Europe and NATO. She answered many questions including some related to the then-anticipated Russian invasion of Ukraine. Society members travelled to St Paul’s Girls’ School to attend a lecture by Professor Catriona Kelly from Cambridge University entitled ‘Russian culture: where are all the women?’, in

which the speaker presented the role of some influential but often forgotten women in the artistic, political and religious life of the country. Another expert on Russia, Dr Rubin-Detlev, Assistant Professor of Slavic Languages and Literature at the University of Southern California, spoke on a related topic in her online lecture entitled ‘How to become Great: Catharine the Great of Russia’. Henry Ridley (The Park) spoke on the November Uprising of 1830–31, often referred to as the Polish-Russian War. Julian Alexandrov (The Knoll) delivered a lecture with a personal touch, ‘Extraordinary ordinary lives in Soviet Bulgaria’, in which he spoke about his great-grandfather’s Lukanka salami production enterprise, with those in attendance getting an opportunity to taste this delicacy. This was followed by a timely lecture by Thomas Hobbs entitled ‘Media in Russia: the government’s war on words’, in which the speaker demonstrated how the current Russian government uses language in its nationwide “special lesson”

about its “special operation” in Ukraine. Another highlight was the Maslenitsa celebration involving students from St Paul’s Girls’ School, Hampton School and James Allen’s Girls’ School who, together with the Harrovians, competed in the final round of the Russian Poetry Reciting Competition while enjoying the traditional costumes, singing and games organised by the folklore group Izba, as well as piles of pancakes and other Maslenitsa-style dishes. The penultimate lecture of the year was delivered by Danial Aspandiiarov (Bradbys) and was devoted to the Holodomor, or the Great Famine in Ukraine in 1932–33, which killed up to 10 million people. It was followed by a lecture by Daniel Sidhom (The Knoll) devoted to Lukashenko’s regime from the perspective of a selfdeclared Belarussian nationalist residing in the UK. To conclude the School year, Harrovians interested in Eastern Europe took part in the Eastern European Cooking masterclasses offered as one of the Expeditions Week activities.

The Latvian Ambassador to the UK visited Harrow

The folk group Izba joined members of the society for Maslenitsa celebrations

Harrovians took part in Eastern European cooking classes

SOMERVELL SOCIETY

SUMMERSON SOCIETY ART HISTORY

SOMERVELL SOCIETY LAW

Society member Ehiada Garuba (Newlands) gave an online talk on ‘Jurisprudence: the theory of law’, and a talk by Charlie de Labilliere (The Grove) explored corporate law. Lectures by Amihyia-Marsden (West Acre) and Tim Yu (Moretons) delved into tax law and international law respectively.

REVELYAN SOCIETY HISTORY

The society enjoyed a blend of lectures from prominent historians, along with symposiums and talks from boys in all year groups. The theme for the year was anniversaries, to run parallel with the School’s 450th anniversary celebrations. In the Autumn term, Dr Kate Fleet from Cambridge University delivered a lecture on the significance of the Battle of Lepanto (1571), 450 years on from this pivotal moment in Ottoman history. This proved to be incredibly useful for boys in the Lower and Upper Sixth preparing for their Unit 3 paper on the Ascendancy of the Ottoman Empire 1453–1606. In the second half of term, Professor Roy Foster of Oxford University delivered a fascinating paper on Anglo-Irish relations, on the eve of the centenary of the Anglo-Irish Treaty of 1921. Further talks followed in the Spring and Summer terms from Professor Kenneth Fincham and Professor Jonathan Phillips, the latter of which drew a substantial audience comprising teachers and pupils from local secondary schools. Boy-led talks and other activities supplemented these guest lectures, resulting in a full and engaging series of events across the year.

The society welcomed several speakers to the Hill including Mr James Macdonald, former Senior Director & Head of Private Sales of Old Master Paintings at Sothebys. He offered a rich overview of his own career, sharing some of the jewels that he has unearthed and even brought in an artwork from his personal collection for boys to analyse. The society was also delighted to welcome back Jack Chen (Rendalls 2018³) who is currently reading Art History at Oxford and who offered an introduction to museology in his insightful and controversial lecture entitled ‘The museum as prison’. As ever, members were pleased to share their own personal interests and

research. Jun Wha Shin (Elmfield) gave an excellent talk entitled ‘Truth to materials: the genesis of British Brutalism’. Archie Tait (The Head Master’s) gave a talk to a joint meeting of the Summerson and Evans Societies on ‘Art of the ancient world’.

SUMMERSON SOCIETY AND EVANS SOCIETY

VIDEO GAME SOCIETY

The Video Game Society enjoyed a hugely successful inaugural year, with many talks given by boys covering a range of topics from game and graphics development to the psychology behind developing addictive and profitable games. To round off the year, a special gaming quiz evening was organised, which saw record attendance and demonstrated boys’ almost encyclopaedic knowledge of a wide range of historical and modern video games.

James Amihyia-Marsden (West Acre)

THE TRUTH ON TAX: THE LAWS THAT LOSE GOVERNMENTS £90 BILLION EVERY YEAR

Archie Tait (The Head Master’s) ART OF THE ANCIENT WORLD

Thursday 12 May, 5pm OSRG

TREVELYAN SOCIETY Professor Jonathan Phillips Royal Holloway University THE MOTIVATIONS OF THE FIRST CRUSADERS Thursday 5 May, 5.30pm Speech Room

TREVELYAN SOCIETY Professor Kenneth Fincham University of Kent

JAMES I: THE SUPREME GOVERNOR

Tuesday 8 March, 5.30pm OSRG

THE ARTS

Nikolai Hanbury (Rendalls)

Art

It was very pleasing to have boys back in the Art Department uninterrupted for the duration of the academic year. During the Autumn term, our Lower Sixth Form artists took in the wonderful Mike Nelson exhibition at Tate Britain and marvelled at the virtuosity of Paula Rego’s folk-taleinfused paintings, drawings and prints, skilfully drawing and analysing these works in their sketchbooks and scratching the surface of some challenging issues, including the liberalisation in April 2007 of Portugal’s 400-year-old abortion laws.

Our Upper Sixth Form artists studiously planned a gallery and museum excursion in the Spring term, visiting a range of independent galleries including the White Cube, Thaddaeus Ropac, Hauser & Wirth and the Institute of Contemporary Arts to seek out smaller exhibitions that can often be overlooked in favour of more headline-grabbing shows at bigger venues. The Frieze Art Fair in Regent’s Park proved more popular than ever, with our Lower Sixth and Upper Sixth Form artists all having the chance to see the eclectic contemporary wares exhibited by nearly 280 galleries from

all over the world. As usual, Frieze provided an inspiring springboard for boys’ ideas, whether figurative, conceptual, sculptural, painterly or compositional.

The Pasmore Gallery’s first exhibition of the year was Takk. The oil pastel works featured form part of a collaboration between the artist Jake Attree and the poet Michael Symmons Roberts, based around Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s painting The Procession to Calvary. It followed a drawing masterclass by artist Ian Murphy.

The House Art event this year was as vibrant and inclusive as ever. The Art School walls were festooned with over a hundred artworks from all 12 Houses. This year’s adjudicator was internationally renowned equestrian sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green, whose resplendent Still Water, a monumental 33ft high sculpture in bronze, was situated at Marble Arch in London from 2011 until 2021 before being relocated to Achilles Way in Park Lane. Mr Fiddian-Green spent several hours looking at the work on display and, when making his final remarks to the assembled boys, beaks and Matrons, was most complimentary about the high quality of the work, highlighting a confident painterly inflection or praising an accomplished drawing. At the end, he awarded the coveted House Art Palette to Newlands, with

West Acre in second place and Rendalls in third. Individual prizes were awarded to the following boys: Shell – Nick Arnison (Moretons) and Jesse Eledan (Newlands); Remove – Tian Zhang (The Knoll); Fifth Form – Harry Burt (Moretons); Lower Sixth Form – Harry Morse (West Acre); Upper Sixth –George Leigh; Prize for Drawing – Omar Ait El Caid (Bradbys); and Prize for Innovation –Max Ferreira (The Grove).

It was a great satisfaction to be able to open the doors of the Art School, Upper Leaf Studios and Churchill Schools’ Sculpture on Speech Day so that boys and parents could experience the impressive array of creative and skilful work by boys from all year groups.

The 2022 Neville Burston Prize for Art was adjudicated by Dr Samson Kambalu, Associate Professor of Fine Art and Director of Research at the Ruskin School of Art and Fellow of Magdalen College, Oxford. Dr Kambalu is artist and writer working in a variety of media, including site-specific installation, video, performance and literature. He awarded the prize to Max Ferreira for his oil on canvas submission Voices of the Sublime, praising the work for its high level of skill, composition and use of colour.

– Laurence Hedges, Director of Art

Sculptor Nic Fiddian-Green judged the House Art Competition

Above, Dr Samson Kambalu was adjudicator for the Burston Prize

Below, Benji Xu (The Grove)

Above and below, Winner of the Burston Prize, Max Ferreira (The Grove)

Above, Jack O’Connor (Druries)

Above, Jaden Lim (The Head Master’s)

Below, James Amiyia-Marsden (West Acre)

Below, James McWilliam (The Park)

Below, Ian Murphy masterclass

Below, Felix Boegh-Nielsen (The Head Master’s)

Below, Charlie Tack (Newlands)

Below, Digby Emus (Rendalls)

Below, Henry Pearce (Newlands)

Below, George Leigh (Elmfield)

Above, Henry Macdonald (The Park)

Above, Joe Storey (Newlands)

Above, Max Baygual-Nespatti (Elmfield)

Above, Marcus Tung (West Acre)

Above, Anton Shashenkov (The Knoll)

Above, Alan Tang (The Knoll)

Above, Benjamin Cutts (Elmfield)

photogrAphy

Arecord 36 boys and one girl studied A-level Photography. They all started with a general theme of ‘environment’ and diversified into very personal work. Several boys decided to play to their particular strengths, such as building or landscape photography. Many of the Lower Sixth took advantage of the Easter holidays to shoot interesting places, producing some elaborate collages of vast urban structures. The Upper Sixth created strong narratives in their final pieces. George Fenwick (The Park) travelled throughout London in search of protests, drawing our attention to today’s political issues. Some boys set themselves complex shoot plans such as Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield) who decided to shoot the wifi signals around the School at night. This was time consuming but produced excellent results against the backdrop of Old Schools. Rafe Hogben (Newlands) looked at the beauty of black and white photography, producing a series of documentary photographs taken around the Barbican. Carrick Reid’s (The Head Master’s) surreal approach to global urbanisation was fascinating and Freddie Gregory (Moretons) produced some beautiful light paintings.

An exhibition in the Pasmore Gallery of renowned artist Derrick Santini’s ‘moving’ lenticular photographs was a source of inspiration for many of the School’s A-level

photographers. As always, everyone enjoyed the challenge of producing original coursework and their work was admired by many parents and friends at the annual Speech Day exhibition.

FOX TALBOT PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

The Fox Talbot Photography Competition is open to all Harrovians and, as always, attracted a large number of entrants. Richard Petty, for the 23rd year, generously sponsored the competition. The judges were specialist performing arts photographer Clive Barda, and portrait and fine art photographer Clare Park. They awarded the senior prize to Allegra Marchant for Word Blindness, an image representing the struggles of people with dyslexia. Second prize went to George Heywood (West Acre) for his photograph Lazy Tuesday, which depicts a woman bringing water into her house in the fishing town of Sal Rei in Cape Verde. Winner of the junior prize was Benjamin Cutts (Elmfield) for his photograph of a man playing the saxophone in a Portuguese square, with the night sky lit up in support of Ukraine. Luca Stubinski-Aldridge (Lyon’s) was awarded second place for his drone photograph of San Francisco’s iconic Lombard Street.

– Darren Bell, Head of Photography

Below, Derrick Santini exhibited some of his lenticular photographs

Above, Allegra Marchant, Fox Talbot Competition Senior winner

Above, Benjamin Cutts (Elmfield), Fox Talbot Competition Junior winner

Above, Luca Stubinski Aldridge (Lyon’s), Fox Talbot Competition Junior runner-up

Below, George Heywood (West Acre), Fox Talbot Competition Senior runner-up

Above, Ben Goldberg (Bradbys)

Below, Bobby Dunne (Elmfield)

Above, Cameron Ellis (Rendalls)

Above, Carrick Reid (The Head Master’s)

Below, Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield)

Above, Elliott Taylor (West Acre)

Above, Freddie Gregory (Moretons)

Above, George Fenwick (The Park)

Above, Guy Walsh (Elmfield)

Below, Harry Scott (Rendalls)

Above, Kit Chetwynd-Talbot (West Acre)

Below, Luke Ritchie (Newlands)

Above, Allegra Marchant

Above, Leon Mills (Newlands)

Above, Omar Ait El Caid (Bradbys)

Below, Orlando Hill (The Head Master’s)

Below, Luke Walton (West Acre)

Above, Rafe Hogben (Newlands)

Above, Roger Litton (Newlands)

Above, Sam Lussier (The Knoll)

Above, Sam Owston (Moretons)

Below, Seb Phillips (Rendalls)

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Celebrating their 70th anniversary, the Old Harrovian Players presented The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe in September 2021. Tobias Deacon (Newlands 20003) directed a large ensemble company in a pacey and visually inventive production, with an original score played live by a full band. Produced by Adam Cross for the School’s Drama and Theatre Department in conjunction with the OH Players, the production played a preview in the Ryan Theatre and two performances on the Southbank to a combined audience of more than 500. Proceeds from the project will support the future development of the Jeremy Lemmon Project, now in its third year, in which a group of Sixth Form boys form an acting company alongside peers from three of our local partner schools, with mentoring from the Globe’s practitioners and a culminating performance on its stage.

In October, the third annual House Scenes Competition took place in the Ryan Theatre, with each House producing and presenting a dramatic extract. Mr Nick Bissessar, incoming Head of Drama at John Lyon School, commended the high standard of focus and creativity across the board, before awarding the House Scenes Trophy to Elmfield for their tense and engaging excerpt from Joseph K Mr Bissessar also gave special commendations to Kit Henson (The Park)

for his individual comic performance, and to The Grove for their witty musical double-act. Later in October, every new boy took to the stage in the annual Shell Drama Festival, for which each House presented a version of one of Aesop’s Fables, devised and directed by Lower Sixth Form boys. The Ryan Theatre Production Crew, made up of staff and boys from all year groups, created a striking city-scape design as the backdrop to all pieces.

Across the year, there were trips to productions of The Woman in Black, Blood Brothers, The Glass Menagerie and The Life of Pi. Visiting practitioners in the Ryan Theatre included Henry Hereford, who gave a workshop and masterclass on acting for screen to an audience of Sixth Form boys from Harrow and John Lyon School. The

Ryan Theatre also hosted a visiting performance of Wolf by Beasthouse Theatre Company.

The year's House Play programme started in November with with Rendalls and West Acre joining forces to present the comic thriller Unman, Wittering and Zigo by Giles Cooper, directed by Gaynor Jervis. Tobias Adetula (West Acre) led the cast as John Ebony, the young schoolmaster at the centre of the action. He was ably supported by Johnny Blake McGrath and Adam Chambers (both Rendalls) as his colleagues in Chantry School. Sharp characterisation and tight ensemble work brought his sinister class of pupils to life.

Later that month, Newlands presented The Bloody Chamber, Bryony Lavery’s adaptation of Angela Carter’s novel. Hans Patel brought intelligence and sensitivity to the central role of the Heroine, drawing the audience into the character’s plight in a performance of poise and conviction. Barimah Adomakoh portrayed menace and status in the sinister role of The Marquis. Grappling with challenging themes, the company created striking moments of physical theatre, holding the audience’s rapt attention. Following the opening-night performance, Lucy Ashe delivered an illuminating lecture on her directorial approach to the project, to an audience including a large number of students from local schools.

In early December, boys studying A-level and GCSE Drama presented a dynamic range of devised performance pieces as part of the curriculum, with stimuli including Gothic short stories and Greek myths. In the final week of the Autumn term, the Ryan

HDT part-funded the Jeremy Lemmon Project.

The Old Harrovian Players performed The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse at Shakespeare’s Globe

Rendalls and West Acre House Play, Unman, Wittering and Zigo

Theatre hosted Everyvoice, a community event bringing together local performance groups with whom the Drama and Theatre Department had collaborated through Shaftesbury Enterprise. The event featured a performance from Toby Marlow, composer of the award-winning musical Six

In January, 14 Shell boys presented a diverse and entertaining set of pieces in the Shell Monologues Final. The adjudicator commended the collective high standard, and finally awarded the Speech Day prize to James McGuinness (The Park) with highly commended mentions to Nick Arnison (Moretons), Fihr Dahlan and Jack Meredith (both The Park).

For three nights in February, the Rattigan Society presented its first large-scale production in nearly two years, when a company of more than 40 boys came together as actors, technicians and musicians to perform Mike Bartlett’s adaptation of Chariots of Fire. Directed by Adam Cross, the company also involved girls from St Dominic’s Sixth Form College. The Ryan Theatre was transformed to evoke an Olympic stadium, and the iconic races conjured by a revolving stage, portable treadmills and moments of inventive physical theatre. A large cast was led by Max Paton-Smith (Elmfield) and Theo Tomlinson (Moretons) as Harold Abrahams and Eric Liddle respectively. Reuben Ackerman (The Head Master’s) and Kyle Debrah (Elmfield), as Andrew Lindsay and Aubrey Montegue, completed the quartet of athletes at the centre of the piece. Ben Leonard (The Grove) played the enigmatic coach Sam Mussabini.

In March, the year’s final House Play, Metamorphoses, presented by The Grove and Lyon’s, took to the stage. Directed by Thomasin Bailey and Eoin Bentick, the production featured an original score composed by Joseph Wragg (The Grove), performed by an ensemble of 20 musicians from both Houses. The piece combined lively comedy, moving poetic drama and inventive choreography in dynamic and highly entertaining fashion. Over the course of the year’s productions, boys operated lighting, sound and projection designs, supervised costume plots, and helped to create large-scale set pieces. Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands), David Liu (Bradbys) and Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) brought consistent energy and leadership in their roles as

The summer’s programme started with performances forming part of boys’ A-level and GCSE Drama assessments. Fifth Form boys presented extracts from Journey’s End by R C Sherriff, while boys in the Upper Sixth performed a series of contemporary monologues. In June, all Shell boys were involved in performances of Shakespearean extracts, as a culminating assessment in their weekly curricular Drama lessons. In the final week of the Summer term, we hosted the Primary Shakespeare Company, bringing together five local primary schools to perform.

As part of the Harrow 450 Community Day in April, the department mounted a

Senior Technicians for the Theatre Production Crew.

Chariots of Fire

The Grove and Lyon’s House Play, Metamorphoses

major production of Noye’s Fludde, Benjamin Britten’s community opera, in conjunction with the Music Department. Directed by Adam Cross and conducted by David Woodcock, the production brought together more than 150 performers from ten local schools and community organisations. The culmination of several months of music and drama workshops delivered by Harrow School staff at the schools involved, as well as an intensive two-week rehearsal period during which each primary school involved visited the Ryan Theatre for a t-shirt making workshop, the production played two performances in Speech Room.

The department was also involved in the production of the Harrow 450 Son et Lumière: Pass it On, in the week leading up to Speech Day. A cast of 30 performers rehearsed intensively throughout the first half of term, under the guidance of a team of OH directors. The boys were privileged to learn from several professional actors, who also joined the company. Boys in the Ryan Theatre’s Production Crew worked alongside professional visiting technicians.

To round off the dramatic year, the Junior Rattigan Society production involved a company of more than 50 boys in the Shell and Remove. This year’s production

comprised dramatised excerpts from famous books, drawing on the musical and dance abilities of the performing ensemble, and curated and directed by Alison O’Neill. In keeping with the story-telling spirit of the piece, the Ryan Theatre opened its doors and invited all members of the School community to come and draw on its stage to create a large-scale piece of community art that would form part of the production’s set.

– Adam Cross, Director of Drama

Shell Drama Festival

Noye’s Fludde

Drawing at the Ryan Theatre

Newlands House Play, The Bloody Chamber

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The Autumn term began with a flurry of activity as we continued to catch up on missed opportunities from the previous year, at the same time as commencing preparations for the many Harrow 450 anniversary events at which our musicians would perform.

The gradual easing of restrictions meant that, in the first week of term, we were finally able to perform Handel’s Messiah before an audience in Speech Room (after several aborted attempts last year). We also resumed weekly Lunchtime Concerts in St Mary’s Church.

Nearly 50% of the boys in the School received individual music tuition, and we taught close to 580 lessons in an average week. In other developments, we welcomed (back) Mr Thomas Moy (The Grove 20113) as Choral Fellow. The main focus of his job was to develop and nurture singing in local primary schools, as well as assisting with choral activities in the School.

As the term progressed, we resumed rehearsals for all major ensembles, albeit with reduced numbers initially. It was especially pleasing to see the Harmony

Choir and Symphonic Winds (previously known as Concert Band) rehearsing and performing again.

An Evening of Music, with dinner, for the Friends of Harrow School, at which eight music scholars performed, was extremely well received, as was an organ recital in Speech Room and a Chamber Music Concert in St Mary’s Church at which more than £2,000 was raised for St Mary’s Spirewatch Campaign. We also held a successful evening of Mozart Symphonies and Divertimenti played by our orchestras.

Perhaps the most moving event of the first half of term was Churchill Songs in early October. It was a most powerful experience to hear the whole School singing for the first time since the start of the pandemic. The Guest of Honour was Lord Sedwill, who has held the posts of Ambassador to Afghanistan, Permanent Secretary at the Home Office, National Security Advisor and Cabinet Secretary.

We were able to combine once again with John Lyon School for the Commemoration Concert at which the School Orchestra performed some of Brahms' Symphony No 2. There were also performances from all our major ensembles

Concerto Evening

Smouha Chamber Music Competition

Choral Society Concert, Verdi’s Requiem

Commemoration Concert

Michaelmas Concert

including choirs, Big Band and Symphonic Winds. Other highlights included Choral Evensong at St Mary’s, a successful concert of Music for Strings in the Music Schools and some excellent Lunchtime Concerts. The first half of term was rounded off with the whole School back in Speech Room for Glees and XIIs.

The second half of the Autumn term was a busy and rewarding period of musical activity even though we were not then completely free of Covid restrictions, as well as significant disruption to ensembles owing to boys’ absence. Then, with the School’s 450th anniversary celebrations upon us, the School XII participated in the opening event with an impressive performance at the 450 Gala Dinner at Banqueting House.

Highlights of the second half of term included an Open Mic evening in the Recording Studio, OH Room Concerts and weekly Lunchtime Concerts in St Mary’s Church, for which audience numbers (in terms of the local community) have gradually returned to pre-Covid levels. Some fine performances by our singers on Remembrance Sunday were rounded off by a smaller group of boys who sang Fauré’s Requiem with girls from Francis Holland School, Regent’s Park. The Michaelmas Concert was another notable occasion at which all the major School ensembles performed.

The Carol Services in Chapel rounded off a busy term, albeit with a slightly reduced number of boys in the Choir owing to

Mortimer Singer Prizes

Spring Concert

Churchill Songs

absences caused by Covid.

In the Spring term, there were further excellent musical events, including Lunchtime Concerts in St Mary’s, as well as a Woodwind Evening and programme of Music for Guitar. Mr Burov and Mr Stone treated us to a delightful evening of music by Schubert, entitled ‘Beethoven in Heaven’, attended by a large and

appreciative audience from the local community. A large number of boys competed for the Singing Prizes, for which the adjudicator was Dame Emma Kirkby.

Mr Moy performed ‘An Evening of English Song’, and his programme included some unpublished songs by Vaughan Williams.

The House Instrumental Competition was beset by some significant challenges, with

Houses having to change personnel at the last minute, but it was enjoyed by all.

The Byron Consort had a fine year. Although unable to undertake their customary overseas tour, they enjoyed their visits to Chichester Cathedral, St Stephen Walbrook, and their excellent 20thanniversary concert at St Bartholomew-theGreat in London.

The Tallis Scholars

The Service of Rededication provided a wonderful opportunity for some of our organists, the Brass Ensemble and the Chapel Choir to play in St Paul’s Cathedral, and a newly commissioned Venite by Philip Moore was performed on this special occasion.

Large numbers of musicians were also involved in the Rattigan Society production of Chariots of Fire

We welcomed The Tallis Scholars for a concert entitled 1572 in Speech Room, in which more than 30 members of the Chapel Choir joined the The Tallis Scholars to sing Spem in Alium as part of a special programme to celebrate Harrow’s 450th anniversary.

A large number of chamber groups participated in the South East Schools Chamber Music Festival, with some groups making it through to the finals at St George’s, Hanover Square. There was also a successful Rock Concert at Wycombe Abbey. Some bands have been busy with professional gigs in and around London as well as releasing singles to critical acclaim. The School was in fine voice once more for the March Harrow Association Songs in Speech Room.

Towards the end of the Spring term, musical activity continued unabated with:

■ Three evenings of Music for Lent featuring three Masses by William Byrd

■ Two lunchtime concerts in St Mary’s

■ An OH Room Concert

■ A performance of Verdi’s Requiem by the Choral Society and the Choir of Francis Holland School, Regent’s Park, and a large chorus

■ A Big Band Concert at Queen’s College, Harley Street

The first half was also a busy and rewarding period of musical activity:

■ Providing music for the Harrow on the Hill Caledonian Society evening in the OH Room

■ The Mortimer Singer Prizes for solo singer and rock bands

■ A variety of musical activities on the Community Day, of which the performance of Noye’s Fludde by Benjamin Britten in Speech Room was one of the centrepieces

■ Music Prize preliminary rounds

■ Byron Consort events in St Paul’s Cathedral and St Pancras Church as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music

■ A Concerto Evening featuring ten boys in some wonderfully ambitious repertoire

■ The annual Chamber Music Concert and Smouha Competition

■ The spectacular Son et Lumière on the Chapel Terrace

■ Speech Day musical offerings including excellent performances of songs, and concerts from the Symphonic Winds and chamber musicians

■ OH Room Concert

■ The Organ Prizes

■ Big Band Concert on the Hill Club Terrace

■ Music Prize Finals

■ An orchestral concert that included a performance of Shostakovich’s Symphony No 5

■ Shell Award Holders’ Concert and the Leavers’ Concert

It was a wonderful year. The nature and scale of the many Harrow 450 events provided numerous ways for boys to enrich their lives with music. It was exciting and inspirational to see how they grasped every musical opportunity with such enthusiasm.

– David Woodcock, Director of Music

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SHAFTESBURY ENTERPRISE

Boys are invited to volunteer for many and varied Shaftesbury Enterprise projects in the local community, ranging from supporting primary and secondary school children with their learning to working on specific enrichment projects with groups facing significant barriers to progress.

Feedback suggests that Harrovians offered around 8,000 hours of time to support Shaftesbury Enterprise projects during the year, with thousands of members of the community benefiting from their endeavours. Harrow School staff also gave over 1,000 hours of their time to act as co-ordinators, coaches, mentors and contributors to the projects.

You can read the latest Shaftesbury Enterprise Impact Report at https://digital.harrowschool.org.uk/ shaftesbury-enterprise-impactreport-2021-22/index.html.

PRIMARY SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS

Harrovians continued to build relationships with local primary schools through partnership work. The primary schools with which partnerships were developed are:

■ St Anselm’s Catholic Primary School

■ Roxeth School

■ Grange School

■ Vaughan School

■ Woodlands School

■ St Jerome’s Bilingual Primary School

■ St George’s Catholic Primary School

■ Marlborough School

■ Byron Court School

■ Elsley School

■ Elmgrove School

■ Norbury School

■ Welldon Park School

Reading and maths schemes Harrovians supported the maths primary partnerships and reading projects, with around 100 boys working with hundreds of local children. Over 1,000 hours were dedicated to these projects in the period from September to March.

Reading schemes usually involved one-to-one reading sessions or group work with pupils who find reading challenging, as well as with the highest achievers. The children were enthused by the chance to explore stories with Harrovians and were motivated by seeing older boys reading.

Harrovians visited local primary schools to run masterclasses for some of their best mathematicians. All the children who took part in the project were working at an accelerated level. Harrovians reported that they felt they had improved their communication skills and felt enriched by seeing the progress the youngsters made.

Woodlands School

Woodlands Primary School is a maintained school that caters for pupils aged 3 to 11 years with a range of complex and profound learning difficulties. These include severe autism, physical and mobility difficulties, and severe developmental delay. A group of ten boys from Newlands visited the School weekly during the project cycle to support learning and play activities, as well as enabling the children to access the local community. The time spent outside the classroom, for example taking walks to the park and helping children to make use of the apparatus, was useful in improving the children’s motor co-ordination.

Chemistry

Over 40 Harrovians took part in supporting chemistry experiments and, in doing so, learned how to communicate with younger children and how to explain things clearly. Each primary school took part in two different experiments over the course of eight weeks. Both experiments aimed to introduce the concepts of physical and

Harrovians supported primary-school pupils with chemistry

chemical reactions and their differences, as well as to familiarise the pupils with the laboratory equipment and safety guidelines.

Eton fives

Harrow boys introduced Eton fives to Year 6 children from Roxeth Primary and Vaughan Primary Schools. The children took to the game with relish, with some keen to return in their own time to play the sport.

Debating

Harrovians devised, wrote and delivered an introductory course to debating.

Noye’s Fludde

Featuring children from ten local schools as well as many Harrovians on stage and in the orchestra, this production of Benjamin Britten’s community opera Noye’s Fludde, which tells the familiar story of Noah’s Ark, performed as part of the Harrow 450 Community Day in April, was an example of what can be achieved through music and drama with children from a variety of backgrounds. For many of the primary

school children who took part, this was a truly formative experience.

SECONDARY SCHOOLS AND YOUNG ADULTS

Around 100 schools, including Harrow’s 13 partnership schools, were invited to the many conferences, talks, revision sessions and careers-focused events held throughout the year for Harrovians.

Lumina

Lumina Tutoring was launched during the first national Covid lockdown in response to an urgent need as lookedafter children, a group already at significant educational disadvantage, became even more disproportionately affected by the loss of learning. A number of other like-minded schools and some of their most outstanding teachers joined the scheme with the aim of improving the educational outcomes for many looked-after children.

In 2021/22, Lumina Tutoring supported over 60 children and young

people across the full range of educational key stages. Teachers guided their tutors to GCSE success, provided supporting evidence for the calculation of Teacher Assessed Grades and wrote recommendations for further education applications. Lumina formed partnerships with Imperial College and Brunel University London to broaden the range of enrichment, mentoring and further academic support on offer.

Lumina also ran in-person after-school clubs where students received tuition in a subject of their choosing as well as enrichment activities. Around 20 Harrow boys volunteered on the project.

Spear

Spear Harrow helps 16–24-year-olds who face disadvantage to find work or into education. Through their courses, they equip young people with confidence, motivation and the vital skills they need to succeed in long-term employment. Over 20 Harrovians volunteered at the local Spear

A Lumina session

Noye’s Fludde

Centre in Harrow, with a handful representing the boys on the Spear Committee. Harrow also hosted the annual Spear Celebration for those who have completed the Spear course.

Shaftesbury High

Shaftesbury High is a special-needs school for children with learning, emotional, behavioural, autistic, communication, medical, physical, sensory and social needs. Around ten Harrovians helped students from the school use Harrow’s sports facilities.

LOCAL COMMUNITY

FirmFoundation

Harrovians continued to support the work of Firm Foundation, which is a charity based in Harrow that works to support the homeless. Five boys volunteered regularly at day drop-ins, and around 25 boys raised £3,000 for the charity by sleeping outside for a night.

EVERY VOICE

Shaftesbury Enterprise and the Drama Department joined celebrations of the School’s partnership with Speaking Out Forum and the work this charity does to train young people with disabilities in public-speaking skills, empowering them to make their own unique contribution to society. The Every Voice event in Harrow’s Ryan Theatre included a keynote speech by Sir Anthony Seldon, one of Britain’s leading contemporary historians, educationalists, commentators and political authors, and a Patron of Speaking Out Forum. Musical entertainment was provided by local group More than Just a Choir, as well as Toby Marlow, composer and co-writer of the West End and Broadway hit musical Six

Sir Anthony Seldon

Boys raised money for FirmFoundation by sleeping outside

Harrovians helped students from Shaftesbury High use Harrow’s sports facilities

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

LONG DUCKER

Long Ducker 2021 broke with past years’ precedents of drizzle and downpour and 754 10km runners and 89 half-marathon racers set off in sunshine. Aside from the glorious conditions, runners were inspired by the day’s overarching purpose of raising funds to support Young Harrow Foundation, the Harrow Club and Cancer Research UK.

Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) of the Upper Sixth won the 10km trophy, having run the course in a little over 34 minutes. The half-marathon was won by Tom Emery (Moretons) in 1 hour, 25 minutes and 30 seconds. Maxwell Brooks completed the 10km swim in 2 hours, 11 minutes and 30 seconds, and the 5km swim was won by Henry Gray (Lyon’s) in 1 hour, 1 minute and 59 seconds.

Long Ducker raised and received a record £222,777 for its chosen charities. Individual fundraisers of particular note are Freddie Dinan (Rendalls), who hiked Toubkal, the highest mountain in the Atlas range, and Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield), who competed in a triathlon. Boys in Moretons merit a special mention for their united effort in organising a School uniform sale.

RESULTS

10km Overall

1st Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) 00:34:34

2nd Cameron Elliott (West Acre) 00:35:49

3rd Julian Abass (Elmfield) 00:39:13

Upper Sixth

1st Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) 00:34:34

2nd Felix Majumdar (The Knoll) 00:40:03

3rd Adam Chambers (Rendalls) 00:40:37

Lower Sixth

1st Patrick Elliot (Druries) 00:42:32

2nd Gabriel Black (West Acre) 00:43:48

3rd Charlie Cross (Newlands) 00:44:10

Fifth Form

1st Cameron Elliott (West Acre) 00:35:49

2nd Julian Abass (Elmfield) 00:39:13

3rd William Everall (The Grove) 00:40:04

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1st Henry Dargan (Druries) 00:40:38

2nd Sammy Clayton-Bennett (Newlands) 00:41:26

3rd Jaden Odofin (The Grove) 00:41:35

Shell

1st Benjamin Cutts (Elmfield) 00:41:39

2nd Jonathan Ford (West Acre) 00:44:47

3rd Henry Barker (The Park) 00:45:20

Half-marathon

1st Tom Emery (Moretons) 01:25:30

2nd George Ferguson (Newlands) 01:26:23

3rd Thomas Hobbs (Newlands) 01:27:16

10km swim

1st Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) 02:11:39

2nd Aidan Wong (The Park) 02:32:00

5km swim

1st Henry Gray (Lyon’s) 01:01:59

2nd Nicholas Finch (Newlands) 01:04:00

Double Ducker (20km run and 10km swim completed in in qualifying times)

1st Eddie Jodrell (Elmfield)

2nd Aidan Wong (The Park)

3rd Data Photpipat (The Head Master’s)

4th Will Tate (The Knoll)

5th Freddie Taylor (Newlands)

Half-marathon runners

LONGEST DUCKER

Modern Foreign Language beaks Mark and Rima Tremlett cycled over 4,500 miles from the most southerly point on the European continent, Tarifa in Spain, to the most northerly point, Norkdnapp in Norway, and raised £45,000 in aid of the Harrow Club, the main Long Ducker charity in Harrow’s 450th year.

Mark and Rima Tremlett

The 10km race sets off

SUSTAINABILITY EDUCATION

In 2021, Sustainability was added to the Remove PSHEE curriculum, as well as being part of the Remove Elective programme. Brian Donohugh (Newlands) was at the heart of this boy-led initiative. In collaboration with the UN, Brian also developed a carbon calculator called Veridian.

Other Lower Sixth Electives included ‘Human Evolution: Seven million years of change’, which was delivered by Head Master Alastair Land. Biology beak Mark Ridgway offered ‘Conserving biodiversity’ and Post-Graduate Assistant in Biology Olivia Brayley delivered ‘Life on the ice’. Shell boys were exposed to a COP26 virtual cities event that demonstrated what cities of the future might look like. This also provided a tool that could be used to explore current and future sustainable careers. Later in the year, all Shell boys took part in two interdisciplinary days in collaboration with girls from Francis Holland School, based on the Earthshot

Prize. The best ideas from the girls and boys in each category were presented to a judge in the final presentation.

Jake Ramus (Lyon’s), Alexander Newman

(Druries) and Daniel Chang (Lyon’s) attended a mock COP at St Paul’s Girls School at which they were assigned three countries for which they were tasked with

Three Harrovians attended the COP26 Conference in October

450 sustainability competition entrants

completing research and then balancing the economic and social needs with climate concerns and pledges in collaboration with other countries.

Arnaud du Roy de Blicquy (Elmfield), Ezekiel Akinsanya (Lyon’s) and Brian Donohugh attended the COP26 conference in Glasgow, where they heard a variety of talks on climate finance and ecoentrepreneurship. Richard Curtis (Rendalls 1970²), a founding member of Make My Money Matter, took part in an excellent panel discussion. Brian and Ezekiel were featured on the COP26 Instagram page on Youth Day.

Daniel Chang, Adam Chambers and Rufus Williams (both Rendalls) all took part in work experience in the ESG division at Schroders after winning the previous year's sustainability competition with their ideas on vertical farming, hydroponics and sustainable school uniform. Many of their ideas on school uniform are being implemented.

In December, the 450 Sustainability Competition was launched and more than 2,500 pupils took part from across all the 14 schools in the Harrow Family. There were over 450 entries. Shawn Shen (Lyon’s), Harrison Zhao (West Acre), Liam Rienow and Christopher Liu (both Bradbys) won the Harrow School internal competition with their ideas on how we could live sustainably on Mars. Several boys also took part in the AimHi accredited climate course.

Throughout the year, 20 boys on the Eco-Committee worked towards an Eco-Schools Green Flag award. This involved completing an in-depth eco review with ten areas. They then focused on three areas around waste, energy and healthy living and developed an action plan. They built a map of the curriculum links in collaboration with Heads of Department and focused on engaging and communicating their work. Finally, they delivered a new Harrow School Eco Code. Harrow was duly awarded its first Eco-Schools Green Flag in June.

Alexander Newman and Ayobami Awolesi (The Head Master’s) were representatives at the London Schools Eco Network and Alexander went on to become the Student Social Media Officer for the UK Schools Sustainability Network. The School actively

and regularly collaborates with both of these networks and, through them, boys were able to respond to and contribute to the Department for Education’s Sustainability and Climate Change Education Strategy.

Other achievements included a biodiversity action plan, cutting paper use significantly, adding solar panels to the Maths and Physics Schools, and implementing Endotherm into heating systems to increase heating efficiency by 15%, thus reducing carbon and costs. Plastic water bottles ceased to be used and the nature walk conceived by Justin Donohugh (Newlands 2015³) was deployed, showcasing the School estate’s wonderful flora and fauna.

– David Morgan, Head of Sustainability Education

Harrow Eco Code

Humility in knowing that we can always do more to be sustainable

Advocate fellowship and lead in changing global attitudes

Respect the planet and the community by keeping it clean

Recycle and reuse as much as we can

Only take what you can eat and eat what you take

Waste less, think more

Encourage our peers to honour this code

Courage to keep fighting the issues we face

Only use electricity when needed

CONSERVATION

Boys opt for Conservation as their Monday afternoon activity at the start of the Summer term in the Remove year.

In the three terms of service that follow, they get to experience the changes in the natural environment associated with summer, autumn, winter and spring. As the world warms, scientists are noting how the timing of seasonal events (phenology) is shifting. We can play a part in this by making observations, for example of when bumblebee queens emerge in spring, and submitting our records to national databases. Nowadays, these citizen science studies are being conducted via apps, such as iNaturalist, which boys used to hone their identification skills. Top bird spots were of a family of little owls in the meadow alongside Lyon’s, a woodcock in Grove Wood and buzzards nesting in Newlands Wood. The group’s birding experience was rounded off by a visit from the English School of Falconry in March.

Every year we carry out work to enhance the many different habitats found on the estate. During 2021/22, a number of improvements were made to the edges of the playing fields and Farm meadows. Specifically, an old pond in the corner of Sheepcote Fields was restored, a new hedge running through the Hemstall Fields was

planted up and new nestboxes were erected in the corner of the Upper Redding Fields.

One of the most significant developments in recent years has been the close tie forged with local primary schools. In the autumn, the Green Ambassadors in Year 4 at St Anselm’s Primary School joined the

Conservation group in the lower graveyard of St Mary’s to look for fungi, seeds and fruits and to estimate the size and age of the yew trees. In the summer, the same children returned for boy-led tours of the Farm and Park Lake.

– Nick Keylock, Master-in-Charge

The Conservation group was visited by the English School of Falconry

THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD

Harrovians continued to work hard at completing The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award at all levels, with 30 achieving the Gold Award, 55 achieving the Silver Award and 32 achieving the Bronze Award.

It was particularly rewarding to return to our usual calendar and locations for the expeditions. The Chiltern Hills provided an excellent site for those completing the Bronze Award to develop their navigational skills and work on problem solving as a team. At the end of March, boys working towards the Silver Award headed off to the Welsh Marches, and those attempting the Gold Award travelled to the Lake District. Both areas provide some physical challenges but are well networked to allow for high levels of supervision while the

required skills are refined. Following their GCSEs, boys navigated the Black Mountains for their Silver qualifying expedition. The weather proved challenging, with four seasons in a day including some thick fog and high winds, when compass skills became essential. At the end of the Summer term, Lower Sixth boys headed off

to the Cairngorms, where they successfully camped in the wild for three nights to qualify for their Gold Award.

None of this would have been possible without the support and enthusiasm of the adults involved in The Duke of Edinburgh’s award. We were particularly grateful to former Head of Art Jason Brahame and his wife Juliette, who assisted the Silver practice expedition, and to those who assessed the boys undertaking the Silver and Gold Awards.

– Henrietta Chilton, Master-in-Charge

Gold practice expedition to the Lake District

Silver qualifying expedition to the Black Mountains

Silver qualifying expedition to the Black Mountains

Silver expedition to the Black Mountains

HARROW RIFLE CORPS

Royal Navy Section

The Royal Navy cadets made good progress through the syllabus, covering communications, weather systems, lifesaving and drill among other topics. The senior cadets led these sessions throughout the year. The sessions were complemented by lots of outdoor activities: the Removes enjoyed weekly sailing and kayaking during the Summer term as well as a tour of RFA Mounts Bay during the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee celebrations; the Fifth Form experienced a brilliant field weekend in September with a day of yacht sailing in Portsmouth as well as archery and practice of the field gun run in preparation for the Service Day in October. The year finished with a powerboating course at Stanborough Park, where a group of cadets achieved their Powerboat 2 qualification.

– Sub Lt Pinsent; RN Section

Army Section

The Army cadets began the year in House platoons, led by the senior cadets. They focused on fieldcraft activities such as map reading, drill, harbour areas, obstacle course, types of patrol and leadership.

The cadets also had the chance to learn first aid, undertake physical training and conduct battle exercises using airsoft weapon systems. An excellent field weekend saw the cadets putting their fieldcraft skills into use with airsoft weapons, in particular the ambushes and team fire and manoeuvre. The Summer term saw the Army section reorganise into C-Company, allowing the senior boys to take up their positions of responsibility. Under the leadership of Head of Army UO Patrick Lehrell (Moretons) and Second in Command UO Jake Ramus (Lyon’s), the cadets learnt their skill at arms, moving with and without a weapon, and individual fire and movement.

– 2 Lt Allan: Army Section

Royal Marines Section

It was a fantastic year of training as we once again engaged fully in service-specific training. September marked the intake of the Fifth Form who embarked on a programme to develop their fieldcraft and which culminated in a live fire experience. The Pringle competition was delayed to March due to COVID-19. However, Captain Greg Morgan (Lyon’s) used this time well to thoroughly prepare for the boys’ trip to the

Cadet Training Centre in Lympstone. The team finished sixth overall, having competed across 11 stances, winning the stretcher race and coming a close second in the endurance event, obstacle course and section attack stands. The Summer term saw the Remove cadets conduct their field day at Longmoor training area. Cadets progressed from individual fire and manoeuvre using blank ammunition to section level tactics, all while learning to live in the field for the first time. Senior cadets completed their training cadre.

– 2Lt Stowell, RM Section

Royal Air Force Section

The Royal Air Force instigated airmanship lessons with a view to facilitating cadets taking to the skies with the RAF throughout the year. All cadets received instruction on the principles of flight, completing their Part 1 assessment during parade afternoons. Excursions outside School saw cadets visit operational bases such as RAF Hendon and Benson, learn about the history of the RAF at the Battle of Britain Bunker and visit the National Space Centre. Cadets undertook airmanship training with the RAF training team, making use of virtual reality hardware and flight simulator software to develop their skills. Cadets

Endurance Event

were also privileged to take the skies both in gliders, at RAF Little Rissington, and in the Grob Tutor aircraft at No 6 Air Experience Flight (6AEF) at RAF Benson.

– Fg Off Unwin, RAF Section

Ansell Bowl

Lyon’s were the 2022 Ansell Bowl winners, having won second place in each part of the competition.

Harrow High School

The Harrow Rifle Corps continued to maintain its successful partnership with Harrow High School and welcomed 25 army cadets for weekly training sessions at the School. Training was overseen by the HRC’s Captain Robson and Major Davies and was delivered alongside Harrow boys.

The cadets, a mixture of girls and boys aged between 14 and 17, took part in a full range of CCF activities including adventurous training and attendance at the week-long summer camp on the Isle of Wight. Many cadets were involved in field days at Pirbright Ranges, during which they passed their Basic Advanced Army Tests. One cadet advance to Cadet Sergeant and another to Cadet Corporal.

YOU London

The Harrow Rifle Corps in conjunction with YOU London, hosted the inaugural YOU London Leadership Conference at Harrow. The conference saw 70 young people from across London take part in activities to develop skills of leadership, civil responsibility and self-confidence. Participants came from uniformed organisations including the police, fire service, army, air and navy cadets, St John’s

Ambulance and the Boys’ Brigade. The youngsters enjoyed practical activities including firefighting on Bill Yard, dealing with ‘traffic accidents’ on the Farm track and climbing and endurance challenges. Delegates heard from the Fleet Commander, Metropolitan Police Commissioner and Parliamentary Commissioner for Standards, as well as learning more about the Army Leadership Code.

Lyon’s were winners of the Ansell Bowl

YOU London Leadership Conference

Iwillnot forget 11 February 2022 and a packed St Paul’s Cathedral, with the congregation in full voice singing the final hymn of the Harrow School 450thanniversary service. It was an appropriate and glorious beginning to our celebratory year. The moment the Head Master presented the replica royal seals to representatives of the whole Harrow Family was both moving and apposite. Past, present and future held wonderfully together, under God. The sense of a sacred moment shared was palpable.

The community continued to benefit from the greater diversity in the Chaplaincy and we were delighted to welcome a new Chaplain, Rabbi Jonny Hughes, and looked forward to welcoming Sayfullah Nasir, our Muslim Chaplain, for the beginning of the Autumn term.

The Chaplaincy was also delighted to be allocated an office and counselling space in the existing Medical Centre as it looked to meet the needs of the boys in body, mind and spirit.

The Anglican community continued to thrive, with record numbers for the last decade being confirmed at Advent by the Bishop of London.

All boys had the opportunity for two acts of worship or reflection, alongside the new Sound of Silence, during which the Chapel was open for 15 minutes of silence, giving space and time for prayer, reflection, mindfulness and meditation. In our very driven culture, this was a significant introduction, requested by boys through the Chapel Council.

I was delighted with the sense of diversity and the freethinking atmosphere for all the boys, while we continued to underpin the Christian message and values traditionally held by Harrow School.

My hopes for the boys, and for each of us, were summed up in the words of Bishop Sara of London, as she blessed us in St Paul’s Cathedral with the words “Go forth into the world in peace; be of good courage; hold fast to that which is good; render to no one evil for evil; strengthen the fainthearted; support the weak; help the afflicted; honour everyone; love and serve the Lord, rejoicing in the power of the Holy Spirit; and the blessing of God almighty, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit, be among you and remain with you always. Amen.”

HWA CHONG ASIA-PACIFIC YOUNG LEADERS SUMMIT

During the summer of 2022, seven Lower Sixth delegates from Harrow were joined by students from 26 other schools around the world for the Hwa Chong Asia-Pacific Young Leaders Summit.

This event, hosted by the Hwa Chong Institution and supported by the Singapore Ministry of Education, was held in a unique hybrid virtual and in-person environment to facilitate convenient discussion between international students while allowing for physical communication between delegates. The convention’s theme was ‘Cyberspace: Connecting Leaders, Conceptualising Ideas, Catalysing Change’. Its purpose was the investigation of our impending digital future and how the next generation can stay connected with each other to imagine a fairer, safer and sustainable world. At same time, the summit served as a platform for delegates around the world to form friendships, engage in topical discussions, and share unique cultural connections.

Preparation for the summit began during the Summer term: the Harrow group had the task of creating a video presentation on the subject of ‘Reducing Inequality’ and devising a cultural exhibition on British popular childhood culture. The summit was an ideal opportunity to gain some insight into the customs, music and food shared by students from around the globe including China, Israel, South Africa, Finland, Japan, Germany and many others.

The main feature of the convention was set in an alternative reality, where delegates were spilt into groups based on imaginary countries, all with different economic, social, military and geographical traits. The delegates were given government roles in those countries, such as the Minister of Defence or Minister of Foreign Affairs, or civilian roles such a representative of the worker’s union. This was in the hope that, in the simulated crises, the delegates would be able to think critically, utilise resources effectively, and work cohesively both within individual countries and internationally.

The first day of the conference afforded delegates and gamemasters the opportunity to get to know each other as they engaged

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in novel icebreakers across the screen. They also listened to insightful speeches by professionals from different fields and learned much about how technology was affecting various sectors of society. There was even a live address from Her Excellency, the President of Singapore, Madame Halimah Yacob, who gave an inspiring speech on the importance of harnessing the power of technology to enact change in our own communities and beyond.

On the first two days, delegates worked together in their respective countries to resolve various internal problems such as natural disasters, acts of terrorism, economic downturn and civilian protests. To succeed, delegates had to ensure that their country’s indicators of stability remained healthy despite these issues. This experience tore down any previous communication or cultural barriers as delegates and gamemasters engaged in passionate discussions within their respective countries.

On the third day, delegates were faced with a complex challenge concerning a global security leak and a dangerous rise in the level of terrorism. Delegates from all

countries convened to discuss this major issue, at the same time trying to improve situations at home through diplomacy and co-operation. They hustled to establish trade partnerships and innovative deals to maintain both internal and global stability. The emergence of alliances, back-stabbings and covert plots all contributed to the intensity of the experience.

Through the labours of the international convention and the respective foreign ministers, the nations were slowly able to come to a memorandum of understanding to collectively strengthen international security. This forming of compromises, pacts and deals gave the delegates a whole new perspective on global issues.

At the closing ceremony, Hansen Han (The Grove), who was the Foreign Minister of the Republic of Illyria, won the Best Delegate Award for his country, while Liron Chan (The Grove) was also highly commended for his efforts.

– Hansen Han (The Grove)

HWA CHONG ASIA-PACIFIC YOUNG LEADERS SUMMIT

ATHLETICS

Athletics training commenced towards the latter end of the Spring term to prepare some of our elite athletes for the competitive meets.

The first few fixtures saw Harrow streaking ahead and securing first place in all three age categories with as many boys as possible taking part in the range of events. The Guy Butler Shield was a closely fought match, with Harrow losing narrowly to a dominant Eton team.

The middle-distance team had an impressive year, some beating personal best times by 20 seconds or more in their 1500m races. Tom Emery (Moretons) displayed exceptional improvement, breaking four minutes (3:57:98) for his 1500m time. Off the back of this, he was invited to compete in the National Championships in July. Tommy Mackay (Newlands) broke the School Intermediate discus record, throwing 42:05m, and is currently ranked 15th nationally in the under-17 age group. Further elite-level success was seen by Dylan Gibbs (Druries) who threw 44:57m in the national under-15 javelin championships, placing him third overall in the country. Cameron Knight (Newlands) performed well and came

12th overall in the national under-17 long-jump competition. There were other exceptional developing athletes in the squad, with 44 Harrovians making it to the County Championships.

The School started the process of developing links with Harrow Athletics Club, one of the strongest clubs in Europe. If approved, our strongest athletes will have the opportunity to train with the best

Harrow AC athletes and their coaches, and to compete for Harrow AC in the holiday period, thus increasing their opportunities for competition and development.

Sincere thanks must go to Gary White, who stepped down from his post as Master-in-Charge of Athletics after 18 years of service.

– Richard Finch, Director of Sport and Master-in-Charge of Athletics

Guy Butler Shield

Borough Championships

BIATHLON

The Matthew Raynham Trophy is a biathlon competition in memory of Matthew Raynham (Druries 19873), Head of School 1991–92, who died in a car accident after leaving Harrow.

After a hiatus of two years, April saw the return of the biathlon races of a 20-length swim and 3km cross-country run, or a 2000m row followed by the 3km

run. A record 450 boys (and a few beaks) competed in the races. Newlands won the trophies for both the swim/run and the row/run House team events, with Elmfield and Lyon’s coming second and third respectively in the swim/run competition, and The Grove and The Park achieving second and third respectively in the row/ run competition. The Brewster Cup for the best individual swim/run performance went to Henry Gray (Lyon’s) who won the event in a time of 19 mins 2 secs. The individual row/run winner was George Ferguson (Newlands) in a time

CLIMBING

Nine boys represented Harrow at the Independent Schools’ Climbing Competition. The competition was organised in the same format as in the Olympics, with entrants from 14 schools. Captain Hugo Heffer (Elmfield) achieved individual Gold in Boulder, Lead and Combined competitions. The teams gained gold medals in the Under-16 and Under-18 categories.

of 21 mins 6 secs. Speediest rower was Kepueli Tuipulotu (Druries) with a time of 6 mins 57 secs, and the fastest swim of the day was achieved by Sean Pao (Bradbys) in 5 mins 28 seconds. Cameron Elliott (West Acre) was fastest around the cross-country course with a time of 11 mins 35 secs. A sale of t-shirts raised £3410, which was donated to Young Harrow Foundation, who will use the money to fund an arts therapy programme for Ukrainian children and young adults in the Harrow area.

Harrow climbers also hosted adventure climber and author Tim Emmett, who is expert in many different climbing disciplines. He is considered a pioneer in deep-water soloing and has established the hardest waterfall ice climbs in the world, with Hemlikin Falls in Canada being the hardest. He is also a pioneer in climbing then jumping off the summits, this involves climbing with a parachute then jumping back down. Tim taught the Marmots how to warm up properly before any difficult climb and then went on to a session covering exercises and workouts for improving specific skills.

– Rob Robson, Master-in-Charge

Harrow hosted adventure climber Tim Emmett

CRICKET

Harrow enjoyed an uninterrupted cricket season for the first time since the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, and over 300 Harrovians enjoyed a variety of formats of cricket on the Philathletic pitches. There were many highlights throughout the club.

The 1st XI were strong once again and played with tremendous spirit and heart all season long. The Junior Colts sides showed wonderful consistency throughout the summer (winning over 75% of their fixtures). The Yearlings and Junior Colts E and F team sides showed their usual character and determination as many of them began their cricketing careers against more experienced opposition C and D team sides. The senior boys showed sufficient love of the game that Harrow fielded a 6th XI for the first time in living memory.

The Yearlings A also travelled to Somerset for their first end-of-season tour and enjoyed fantastic hospitality from Millfield and King’s Taunton.

There were many highlights away from the external fixture circuit too. Harrow hosted it’s first Cricket in the Community Day during April 2022, with local primary schools and cricket clubs receiving coaching from beaks and boys on the Philathletic pitches. Harrow once again hosted the MCC Foundation Hubs Finals Day during half-term, with boys and girls from all over the country enjoying the Harrow cricket pitches as the MCC Foundation Hub sides competed for victory. House cricket proved

to be competitive as ever. Elmfield dominated House and Torpid competions, defeating Rendalls in the Torpids final and The Park in the House final. Moretons proved too strong for The Park in the Yearlings competition final.

1ST XI

The XI finished the season with a record to be proud of, winning 11 games and losing three. They were ably led by John Richardson (Elmfield) whose strategy and manner were beyond reproach throughout the season. The side started in impressive form, defeating the London Schools Cricket Association by six runs before thumping Wellington College by five wickets in the Cowdrey Cup. Cameron Ellis’ (Rendalls) and Veer Patel’s (The Knoll) 63* and 64 proved too strong for the Wellington opposition. Connor O’Flaherty’s (The Head Master’s) 5-11 ruined a good game of cricket against Hampton with Harrow finishing the victors by 116 runs to kick off a winning start to the season.

A long away trip to Malvern College proved a tougher test as the season entered May. The XI lost the toss and were asked to field. The ground’s short boundaries proved difficult to defend as Malvern posted a formidable 316/6, but the XI showed the character and heart that would later come to define their season as five of the players passed 50 as Harrow narrowly fell short on 295/7. The XI bounced back immediately from this setback as they comfortably defeated Oxford University Blues (won by four wickets), Charterhouse (won by 67 runs), MCC (won by seven wickets) and I Zingari (won by nine wickets) throughout May. James Nelson (Bradbys) and Phoenix

Ashworth (The Head Master’s) both spun Oxford away with four wickets each and Brij Sheopuri’s (Lyon’s) 88* against Charterhouse was one of the most valuable knocks of the season (Harrow had been 30-4 after ten overs before Sheopuri came to the crease). Jasper Blackwood (Elmfield) and Shrey Rawal (Rendalls) ripped through the MCC top order with three wickets each and Charlie Nelson’s (Bradbys) 57* made light work of the MCC total. Veer Patel’s 81* helped set a formidable 249 for the Wanderers to chase but Brij Sheopuri’s 5-57 ensured that they never got close as the Wanderers finished on 192/9.

The XI lost momentum after the halfterm break with rain curtalling fixtures against the Free Foresters and Radley that the XI looked set to win comfortably. They then faced a very strong Tonbridge side (with the winner likely to claim the Cowdrey Cup). In an exceptional game of school cricket that ebbed and flowed throughout the full 110-over day, Harrow narrowly fell short of the Tonbridge target by four runs. Skipper Richardson ripped out the Tonbridge top-order with three early wickets and it was Brij Sheopuri who again counter-punched impressively with a brisk 66 to take Harrow to the edge of victory. Lord’s was looming on the horizon and the XI needed to rediscover their early season winning ways and they did just that against Mumbai CC (won by four wickets) and St Edward’s, Oxford (won by 28 runs). The side had enjoyed a really strong season and had proven to be very hard to beat. The scene was set for the match that Harrow would play against Eton at Lord’s on the final Tuesday of term.

LORD’S

The coin fell in Eton’s favour at the toss and they asked Harrow to bat first in cloudy and overcast conditions. George Cutler (The Knoll) opened the batting with pure class to neutralise any advantage that the Eton seamers might have enjoyed before

eventually falling for a fine 46. The Eton seamers counter-punched well to knock over Charlie Nelson, Karan Zaveri (Elmfield) and Veer Patel to leave the XI five wickets down and in a delicate position at lunch.

Cameron Ellis and Max Ferreira (The Grove) returned to the crease after lunch looking to push the Harrow total up beyond 200 and it was Ellis’ 43 and Connor O’Flaherty’s 41 in particular that started to take the match away from Eton. The Harrow lower order batted impressively alongside Ellis and O’Flaherty to take Harrow beyond 200 and up to 265/9 from their 55 overs, a formidable target having been five wickets down at lunch.

The XI started their defence perfectly with Shrey Rawal trapping the Eton opener plumb in front in the second over. Harrow

bowled with accuracy and precision for large periods of the Eton innings and none of the Eton batsman ever managed to get into full flow. The XI built pressure and took wickets at regular intervals throughout the afternoon. James Nelson took 3-28 to dislodge the Eton top order and Shrey Rawal and Brij Sheopuri both took two wickets to dampen any hope of another lower-order counter-attack similar to Harrow’s efforts earlier in the day. With Eton nine down and still 86 runs adrift, Phoenix Ashworth clung on to a spectacular catch at mid-on off the bowling of Sheopuri to seal a famous victory for Harrow. The XI produced a performance that was steely, steady, purposeful, unruffled and, significantly, shared across them all.

– Johny Marsden, Master-in-Charge

Victory at Lord’s

Lord's XI

CROSS-COUNTRY

The season started with a bang for the Seniors with a long journey up to Sedbergh School.

Areconnaissance of the English Schools

Fell Championships course, around and up Winder, was followed by food in a boarding house and back to a nearby field to camp for the night. Double helpings of sausages sandwiches were enjoyed at camp breakfast, fuelling the team to first place, a remarkable (and auspicious) achievement in the fells for a school from London.

Over the course of the autumn, the team progressed all the way in the ESAA Crosscountry Cup, from Boroughs (hosted at Harrow) to Regionals (Verulamium Park, St Albans) to Nationals (Newquay, Cornwall). Achieving tenth place nationally again demonstrated the strength and depth of the Senior squad.

After the Christmas break, the team dominated at the prestigious and historic Knole Run, coming second only to Abingdon,

which was the best finish for Harrow in institutional memory. In February, runners contested the King Henry VIII relays, essentially the national relay competition, with Harrow coming sixth among specialist running schools such as the The Judd School and Shrewsbury.

Later in February, Harrow again came second to Abingdon in the Radley Relays but gained the upper hand in this fierce seasonal battle with victory at Marlborough in early March. Tom Emery (Moretons) rounded off a fine year with individual pole position at Winchester. Graham Lambert (Lyon’s), captain for the past two years, led by fine example all season and will be sorely missed.

– Rupert Allison, Master-in-Charge

Middlesex Schools Championships

Cross-country squad

FENCING

The club played nine competitive matches against other schools, with seven wins and two draws.

We returned to the Lansdowne Club in the Summer term for the James Chambers Memorial Cup, an annual match held in honour of a former coach of both the Harrow and Lansdowne Fencing Clubs. The boys fought well, beating the Lansdowne in the foil 45-41 but losing in the épée 44-45. Therefore, Harrow won this year’s James Chambers Cup 89-86: a tight match with two nail-biting finales.

After the COVID-19 pandemic had halted the Public Schools’ Fencing Competition, it was back on in March at the Lee Valley Athletics Centre. We had a successful three days, although sadly a few of the Senior boys were sitting mocks at the same time and could not compete. The boys fenced very well, with standout performances by François de Robert Hautequere (Lyon’s), who came fifth of 73 Senior foilists,

FIVES

Harrow enjoyed a bumper year during the School’s 450th anniverary celebrations. There were several victories at Senior level, cumulating with the top two pairs making the Open Championship semi-finals and three Junior pairs achieving the same. Phoenix Ashworth (The Head Master’s) and Johnny Barley’s (The Grove) victory in the final was a marvellous finish to a very enjoyable year for everyone involved.

The squad also visited several local primary schools to give pupils there the chance to experience fives, as part of the Shaftesbury Enterprise programme.

– Ian Hutchinson, Cricket and Fives Coach

Daniel Eldridge (The Grove), who came 16th of 88 Senior épéeists, Henry Barker (The Park) who was ninth of 78 MountHaes épéeists, and Aidan Lee and Luke Pain (both The Head Master’s) who ranked 11th and third, respectively, of 48 MountHaes saberists.

This year, fencing ties were awarded to Rupert Cullinane (Newlands) and Hadrian Ho (The Head Master’s) in recognition of their steadfast commitment to the club and their development in skill.

– Rachel Maerz, Master-in-Charge

Fencing squad

Fives squad

GOLF

The golf team enjoyed another successful season, victorious in 13 of their 17 regular season fixtures and winning the Independent Schools Regional Final for the second year in succession.

The team of Max Shirvell, Toby Shirvell (both The Head Master’s) and Aidan Wong (The Park) travelled up to Formby for two days, competing against the best young golfers in the country in the National Finals. They went on to tie for seventh place, with Toby Shirvell finishing -2 and tied for ninth place.

Earlier in the season, the same three attended the Alexander Quin Invitational at Celtic Manor, a world-ranking event. Max Shirvell shot -5 on day one to hold a three-shot lead over his nearest competitor.

HARROW FOOTBALL

Harrow football had its first proper season in almost three years. The tour was still logistically too difficult to arrange before Christmas, but the New Year ushered in a full season of fixtures. The XI, Outcasts and the resurrected Princes appeared on suitably muddy fields, achieving mixed success against OH teams. Under the captaincy of Nick Martin (The Knoll), the XI had a successful season, victorious in most matches. The Outcasts and Princes found the going somewhat tougher against enthusiastic OHs.

Founder’s Day was a huge success; the kitchen had so many OHs to feed they almost ran out of food! The season finished with a very successful Harrow football dinner at the Oriental Club where over 50 guests enjoyed speeches, awards and the vociferous singing of Songs.

At School, the House competition recommenced in full, again for the first time in three years. Apart from Shells, boys in the Removes and Fifth Form had played very little footer, but all got the chance to play. At House and Torpid level, Newlands achieved most success, while at Yearlings a heroic struggle in the mud of Hempstall 6 saw The Park overcome Elmfield by just one base.

Any OHs wishing to play should contact the Harrow Association or Mark Ridgway (mjmr@harrowschool.org.uk).

– David Wendelken, Master-in-Charge

A tough second day in blustery conditions saw him drop back down the field and finish the third round in a tie for fifth place.

The team valiantly defended the Gerald Micklem Trophy, now back at its regular home of Woking Golf Club. They came up against a very strong Wellington side and narrowly lost out 3-2 in the opening round before putting in a scintillating performance to outgun Winchester 5-0. The Plate final was a tense affair in which the lead changed hands regularly. Bradfield

managed to edge the game 3-2.

We said goodbye to both Max Shirvell and Toby Shirvell who have travelled to the US to attend Wake Forest University in North Carolina. Both have been wonderful servants of Harrow School golf and their legacy will be long remembered. Jerome Ponniah (The Head Master’s 2001³) continued to provide his expertise in coaching the squad.

– Joss Pinsent, Master-in-Charge

Founder’s Day

Harrow football XI

HOCKEY

Pre-season hockey began with a mixed-year-group tournament at Eton College a few days before start of the Spring term. The boys also enjoyed pre-season sessions twice a week throughout the entirety of the Autumn term.

With the welcome return of external fixtures, the 1st team had a successful season, reaching round 2 of the National Plate competition. A particular highlight was the 1st team beating Eton 4-1 in March after losing 1-2 to the same team in February, showing the excellent progression made by the team during the season. The 2nd XI had some impressive wins against Haileybury, Eton and Haberdashers’ School, and the Junior Colts A had three successful wins during the season.

– Kat Allan, Master-in-Charge

Hockey v Eton, Yearlings A

Hockey 1st team squad

JUDO

Over 30 boys returned to unrestricted judo training and the Harrow team participated in national competitions that have not taken place since 2020.

Atypical term of judo at Harrow involved twice weekly training sessions, friendly fixtures with other schools and masterclasses from visiting coaches. A highlight of the year was a visit from double Olympic silver medallist and six-time all-Japan champion Yoko Tanabe, who delivered a superb seminar on the theme of contest preparation.

A team of 22 boys entered the HMC Independent Schools Judo Tournament. Nine Shell boys entered the Junior (under-14) age band of the competition and the day got off to an excellent start with Ben Allard (The Grove) taking the gold medal in the Under-42kg category. A flurry of silver medals followed, with Harrison Gray (Lyon’s), Rory Griffin (The Head Master’s) and Jake Turner (Druries) finishing second in the Under-46kg, Under-50kg and Under-55kg categories respectively. Tristan Tyacke (The Grove) and Neharen Inpan (Bradbys) earned silver medals in the Under-60kg and Under-73kg divisions. In the Over-73kg category, Mac McDowell (Elmfield) took a silver medal, with the bronze going to Arjan Basran (The Park). After some excellent contests, Matthew Finnegan (Druries) retired injured from the Under-66kg pool.

In the Intermediate (under-16) age band, Algy Royle (Rendalls) and Michel Quist (The Grove) finished with gold medals in the Under-60kg and Under-90kg categories respectively. James Lanni (The Grove) earned a silver in the Under-66kg division.

In the Senior (under-18) age band, Jude Esposito (Newlands) took gold in the Under-73kg category with perhaps the most dominant display of the day. The remainder of the Senior age band was not well populated by other schools so there were many, very competitive, all-Harrow

contests. In an all-Harrow Under-81kg division, Oliver Newall (Moretons) finished with gold and Greg Morgan (Lyon’s) silver, with Josua Biles (Bradbys) and Josh Soyemi (The Head Master’s) taking the bronze medals. In the Under-90kg category, Giancarlo Urselli (The Grove) took gold, with Emmanuel Olowe (The Grove) and Lukas Edstrom (Bradbys) finishing with silver and bronze medals respectively. In the Under-100kg group Philip Truscott (Elmfield) earned a silver medal, with Edwin Oh (Rendalls) taking the bronze.

Harrow finished with six gold, ten silver and five bronze medals. Unfortunately, with many of the Senior medals not contested by other schools, they could not count towards the official medal tally and the trophy for winning school was effectively decided by the younger age bands, in which Harrow finished level with Whitgift. The tie was unlocked on the number of silver medals and Harrow had to settle for second place after six years at the top.

Sixteen boys qualified for the British Schools Judo Championships at the English

Institute of Sport. The number of entrants (over 700) and level of judo was, perhaps, the highest this tournament has seen. There were no easy contests but four Harrovians battled through to medal positions. In the Junior Over-73kg category Mac McDowell and Arjan Basran took both bronze medals. In the Senior Under-90kg category, Lukas Edstrom also finished with a bronze. In an outstanding individual performance, Emmanuel Olowe finished with the gold medal to became British Schools Champion, a first for Harrow at Senior level. In the overall medal table, Harrow were tied on 12 points with Eastbury Community School, so the winner was decided on the number of gold medals and Harrow again just missed out on the top spot.

In the Summer term, we focused on gradings, with all regular attendees achieving a belt promotion. Of particular note was Emmanuel Olowe, who became the first Harrovian to achieve the coveted rank of Black Belt while still at School.

– Matt Glossop, Master-in-Charge

The Harrow Development Trust sponsors Harrow’s judo programme.

British Schools Judo Championships medal winners

Judo squad

POLO

In the Spring and Summer terms, the polo teams had a number of exciting fixtures. In the Spring term, polo matches were played in an outdoor arena, and in the Summer term, the matches were played on grass.

In the spring, we played Wellington College, Eton, Stowe, Rugby and Heathfield. In the summer, we faced Radley College at Kirtlington Park Polo Club. At Cirencester Park Polo Club, our opponents were Stowe and Cheltenham College. However, the biggest match was undoubtedly in June against Eton. The match was part of the La Martina Varsity Polo Day at Guards Polo Club, with over 1,000 spectators. The match started with an early goal from Eton. In the second chukka, Eton scored again but Harrow’s polo captain, Hector Rogberg (Druries), managed skilfully to score for Harrow. In the third chukka, Eton scored again, with Harrow’s Shrey Rawal (Rendalls) only

managing to hit the post. Going into the final chukka, Harrow had it all to play for. Hector Rogberg and Shrey Rawal both scored, bringing the score to 3-3. For the first time in the history of the competition, we decided to go for a fifth chukka and a golden goal to win the game. Eton fouled and gave Harrow a 25m penalty. Hector Rogberg stayed very calm and slotted the ball between the posts to gain victory for Harrow. Throughout the match, Ulysses Hu

RACKETS

In April, we had the official opening of the Prenn Hue Williams court. This was an excellent occasion with a good turn out and a fitting tribute to the unstinting efforts of John Prenn (The Head Master’s 1966³) and Charles Hue Williams (Bradbys 1956²) in supporting Harrow’s rackets over many decades.

It was great to return to playing at Queen’s. Tarquin Sotir (Druries), who was selected for the Foster Cup, had a fine match in the first round and managed to hold off a spirited display from his opponent from Tonbridge to win a tight match 3-1. He showed equal determination, skill and character in his next match, against another Tonbridge opponent, but was edged out 15-13 in the final game.

In the First Pair doubles, Max Shirvell (The Head Master’s) and Sotir took on Wellington in the first round and were

(Rendalls) and Orlando Hill (The Head Master’s) demonstrated outstanding defensive play. Shrey Rawal received the cup for the most valuable player for setting up the last play of the game that awarded Harrow the penalty.

Hector Rogberg and Ulysses Hu were both selected to play for the Under-19 England squad in an exhibition match at HIckstead Polo Club.

– Darren Bell, Master-in-Charge

convincing in a 3-0 win. The next match was against the first seeds Eton. In a match full of twists and turns, we overhauled a one-game deficit to lead 2-1 and got 8-0 up in the fourth game. Eton turned the tide at this point, and we were just unable to close out the match, losing 2-3.

We had three pairs in the Second Pair doubles event. Federico Ghersi (The Head Master’s) and Alonso Fontana (The Grove), Sam Owston (Moretons) and Henry Oelhafen (Lyon’s), and Veer Patel (The Knoll) and Stephan Baranov (Moretons) all underlined the excellent strength in depth of the group of senior players by reaching the quarter-finals. It was very heartening to see the efforts that all the boys made in preparation for the events held at Queen’s Club. They were very ably backed by Joey Snell as the new Assistant Rackets Professional.

– John Eaton, Rackets Professional

RUGBY

It was good to have a full season of rugby back at Harrow after the pandemic-ravaged non-season of 2021/22. There was a clear appetite for rugby across the School with over 450 boys playing for 21 teams. At a time when many schools are struggling to get sides out, rugby at Harrow is stronger than ever.

The year’s efforts were led by a memorable season from the XV. Captained by Max Ferreira (The Grove), they started the season with big wins over Hurstpierpoint (53-7) and Dulwich College (47-7). A first defeat came away to Whitgift (7-0), back on the fixture list after an absence of many years, and a fixture the XV were unlucky not to come away from as victors. A 19-0 victory against St Paul’s was followed by a superb clash against Berkhamsted, which was one of the best games seen on The Sunley in recent years, ending in a 10-10 draw. Further victories came against Northampton School for Boys, Bedford, Eton, Epsom, Hampton, St Benedict’s Ealing and a very memorable win away at Tonbridge 10-8, where the XV scored with the final play of the game. In the National Schools Under-18 Cup, Harrow reached the quarter-finals for the first time in our history, sadly losing away at Sherborne 7-3 to end an otherwise

superb season with ten wins, one draw and two losses.

Across the School, there were memorable unbeaten seasons for the 3rd XV and Yearlings A, while both the Colts and Junior Colts A sides had tremendous seasons, losing only three games and one game respectively. Overall, it was statistically the best season in recent years with 166 games played and 127 wins, leading to an impressive 78% win rate across the School, but also a season emphasised by the number of boys playing.

In the Spring term, Harrow’s reputation as one of the top 7s schools in the country was reaffirmed with a strong showing from the 1st VII at the Surrey 7s, where they reached the semi-finals. Most impressive

was the victory for the Colts at the Rosslyn Park Under-16 7s competition, in which they overcame 256 teams to win in emphatic fashion.

Rugby at the School was further buoyed by successes in the professional game from current and Old Harrovians. Oliver Stirling (Lyon’s), number 8 for the XV, signed a professional contract with London Irish following the end of his Upper Sixth year. There was also tremendous success for Henry Arundell (The Knoll 20163) who, one year after leaving Harrow, made his full England debut against Australia, scoring a scintillating try with his first touch.

– James Melville, Master-in-Charge

Harrow v Eton

1st XV squad

SHOOTING (CLAY PIGEON)

In the Autumn term of 2021, Harrow was once more able to shoot competitively. At the Marlborough Challenge in Wiltshire in October, of 23 teams taking part, Harrow Y team achieved the third-highest score.

They were only two clays (of 250) off second place. Notable performances were from Angus Ludlam (Druries) and Alexander Seely (The Head Master’s), both of whom scored 36/40, two clays short of the competition’s High Gun score of 38.

In November, we travelled to the Mendip Shooting Ground to compete in the Millfield Challenge. On a beautiful, cold and windy day, we did not perform as well as could have been expected and finished

half-way through the field of 29 teams. Later that month, one team contested the Land Plate at Holland & Holland, shooting a range of guns from .410 to black powder and achieving third place.

On the last Thursday in February 2022, Harrow’s 11th annual Fido May Trophy Competition took place. Under a dusting of snow, 100 competitors in 25 teams took part in a challenging competition that saw Harrow take tenth place.

INTER-HOUSE CLAYS

In May, the Inter-House Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition, which for the first time in more than a dozen years took place under rainy conditions, was won by The Head Master’s whose team broke a total of 88 out of a possible 128 clays. West Acre came a very close second with 85/128. Third place was a draw between Moretons and The Grove, both with 78/128. On a course that required a similar technical level as in 2021, but with more pleasing targets, the competition High Gun title was won by Matthew Gaffaney (Bradbys) with 25/32.

PARENTS AND SONS

In April, 68 competitors divided into four squads took part in the annual Parents and Sons Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition at the E J Churchill Ground on the West Wycombe estate of Sir Edward Dashwood. The competition, which took place on a beautiful day in stunning surroundings, was won with a score of 372/500 by the father and son pairings of Angus Ludlam and Algie Anderson (Moretons). The Solent Salver for Clay Pigeon Shooting and the Woodcock Trophy will be held by them for the following year.

Clay pigeon shooting at Harrow remained as popular as ever and we continued with our weekly trips to the E J Churchill Shooting Ground.

– Damian Cox, Master-in-Charge

SOCCER

It was with great excitement that the boys returned to a first full season since 2019, playing free-flowing, attacking football that amassed a total of 626 goals across 25 different teams.

The 1st XI improved significantly over the course of the season and went through a real purple patch in the middle of the Spring term. It wasn’t quite enough to win the league this year but, captained by Chike Odogwu (Moretons), several boys will look back on the season with pride, including Alex Gabbitas (Druries), Roger Litton (Newlands), Felix Majumdar (The Knoll), Archie Chatwin (West Acre) and topscorer Hugo Anderson (Newlands). The 2nd XI enjoyed a brilliant season, scoring an average of three goals a game to come out winners of their league in barnstorming fashion. The Colts A and Junior Colts A and B sides were very narrow runners-up in

Soccer Results 2022

their respective leagues, with the Yearling As struggling in terms of results but improving vastly with their performance levels over the course of the season.

One of the highlights of the footballing term was the FA Day, an event that enabled the School to mark the 150th anniversary of the FA Cup, established by Charles Alcock (Druries 1855³). Over 200 competitive games took place across the

Hill in four different tournaments in a single afternoon. This was a whole-School effort and it proved to be a real opportunity to celebrate the footballing enthusiasm in the local community, our partner schools and the FA itself. In view of both the original and current FA Cups, a re-run of the 1872 final was played out in rather wet conditions before an evening of talks and dinners, with a few celebrity appearances. – Dean Holt, Master-in-Charge

SQUASH

The 2021/22 squash season saw a welcome return to something like normality, although one or two fixtures were lost, such as those with Lancing and the Jesters.

Our team (and quasiprofessionalism) was bolstered by the arrival in the Sixth Form of Jat Tse (Rendalls), a former Asian number one at Under-15. Happily, the First V’s fortunes did not depend too often solely on our first seed, and we won 15 of our 19 matches. We reached the second round of the National Schools

Competition, losing narrowly to a strong St Paul’s side with just a little more firepower at number 4 and 5. The annual OH match was hotly contested and extremely competitive, with Jat’s game against Seigo Masuda (Rendalls 2011³) drawing quite a crowd. We also returned after a few years’ absence to the final round of the Roehampton Invitational, playing well until a loss to the very powerful Epsom. The game enjoyed an excellent spike in popularity with the arrival as a full time-coach of Robbie Temple, a former pro on the world tour and a coach at Queen’s.

– Fred Sugarman-Warner, Master-in-Charge

Squash squad

Swimming squad

SWIMMING

This season saw some of the fastest-ever swimming at Harrow and was certainly one of the most successful to date. On the interschool circuit, Harrow won matches against Abingdon, Charterhouse, Dulwich and Hurstpierpoint, while the development squad drew with Coopers’ Company & Coborn and came second in the Tonbridge Trophy.

In September, Harrow won the London Schools’ Championships and, in the English Schools’ competition, the Senior team was placed fifth in both the freestyle and medley relays, while the Junior squad came third in the freestyle relay. At the World Schools Swim Championships, Harrow earned a medal in every event entered and won every relay. The School won seven gold medals, and Adam Wong (The Park) set a World School Games Record in the 50m breaststroke, swimming up an age group.

Individually, Adam Wong, Henry Gray (Lyon’s) and Nick Finch (Newlands) attended trials for the British Championships and Commonwealth Games, and Henry Gray was selected for the European Youth Olympics Team. Nine Harrovians qualified for swimming national competition.

Harrow returned to former glory at the Bath Cup and John Nalson Medley Relay, the premier independent schools swimming competition. The School won the John Nalson Medley in a time of 1:48.41, the third-fastest time ever in the event, and came second in the Bath Cup in 3:35.95, narrowly missing out to Ardingly College. This was an outstanding result, particularly as the squad included two Fifth Formers and a Remove.

The Ducks and Ducklings on Speech Day was similarly outstanding, with all but three records falling. Highlights were Henry Gray and Nick Finch setting potentially unbreakable records of 26.40 seconds and 24.53 seconds in the 50m backstroke and butterfly events respectively, while Lyon’s

broke the Junior Medley record by a little over seven seconds. The Ducker Cup for fastest senior 100m freestyle was awarded to James Rates (Newlands), who was also awarded swimming Flannels, while the Junior Ducker Cup was awarded to Henry Gray. The Chris Lai Swimmer of the Year was Nick Finch, and the Junior Swimmer of the Year was Henry Gray. The Sonia Newstead Cup for improvement was awarded to Nicklas Høst-Verbraak (The Head Master’s) and, in recognition of his contribution and commitment to the Swimming Club, Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) was awarded the Hamilton Cup.

Henry Gray, competing for Team GB in the European Youth Games, won gold for his butterfly leg in the medley relay team.

Nick Finch participated in the British National Summer Championships. He won gold in the 100m butterfly and 50m freestyle, silver in the 100m freestyle and bronze in the 50m butterfly.

– William Seex, Master-in-Charge

A large number of boys played tennis at all levels, supported by both in-house and external coaches. We started playing in September, taking part in the Bright Ideas for Tennis charity run by one of our external coaches, Danny Sapsford. This charity supports tennis in the community and particularly gives people with disabilities the chance to enjoy the sport.

Anumber of our Senior players and two beaks headed off the to the National Tennis Centre in Roehampton to play against current and former professional UK players. It was a 24-hour event, and we got the slot just after midnight! The boys had a great time and raised several thousand pounds for this worthwhile charity.

There were strong players in all age groups but especially so at Senior level. Indeed, the 1st VI lost only once, to Bradfield, and the 2nd VI only to Tonbridge. Particularly good results were recorded against Eton and

Radley. Similar success was mirrored by other year groups. Indeed Mostyn Fulford (The Knoll) established himself as part of an excellent Senior first pair despite being a Fifth Former. His partner, Cameron Timlin (Bradbys) is in the Lower Sixth. Another Colt, Hugo Maclean (West Acre), also played in the Senior 2nd VI. We finished the season against St Edward’s, Oxford, where Yearlings and Junior Colts A and B and 1st VI did not concede a match in a 9-0 whitewash. The 2nd VI dropped just three games in their victory.

There were some excellent House competitions. Aidan Wong (The Park) beat Cameron Timlin (Bradbys) in the Senior singles competition; experienced heads

claimed it was the highest standard for at least 20 years. In the doubles competition at Senior level, the pairing of Cameron Timlin and Henry Proctor (Bradbys) was victorious for Bradbys against The Park. In the Torpid doubles, The Park team of Jack Scott and Adam Wong triumphed, while at Yearlings level Rendalls pair Charlie Chambers and Diego Castellano Burguera were successful.

The Parent and Son Competition had a number of entries, with players of all standards taking part. At Yearlings level, Charlie Chambers was again successful playing with his father Guy, while at Senior level Aidan Wong and his father Arnold won in a tough competition.

– David Wendelken, Master-in-Charge

Senior tennis squad

Junior Colts A tennis team

WATER POLO

Water polo continued to be one of the fastest-growing sports on the Hill. In the inter-school circuit, Harrow started the season with a tough (8-5) defeat at the hands of Charterhouse, which was quickly rectified with a (7-4) victory over John Lyon and a resounding win at Abingdon (12-2).

In the spring, Harrow continued in good form with a win at Stowe (9-3) and, on Founder’s Day, hosted the OH water polo players in a nail-biting 6-6 draw. The Torpids team played a home-and-away fixture against John Lyon, winning 7-3 with home advantage, but struggled to deal with John Lyon’s shallow pool, losing 4-1.

In the English Schools Swimming Association (ESSA) competition, Harrow had its best cup run in recent memory. In the qualifying stage, Harrow won its first ESSA game in over half a decade, defeating

Marlborough 5-2. This was certainly a long time coming and testament to the boys’ endless resilience, earning progression to the Plate semi-finals. Harrow went on to defeat Emanuel School (7-1) and Ibstock Place (6-3), but very hard-fought losses to Eton (7-3) and KCS Wimbledon (6-4) meant the boys went out with their heads held high.

In the inter-House competitions, Newlands beat The Knoll in the Speech Day final, while, in the Torpids competition, Newlands beat Druries. Senior Water Polo

Player of the Year was awarded to Sam McGougan (Bradbys) in recognition of his 25 season goals across all competitions, and Junior Water Polo Player of the Year was Sias Bruinette (Newlands) for his outstanding contributions to Harrow’s ESSA Cup run. Water polo Flannels were awarded to captain Jake Ramus (Lyon’s) and Tristan Bentsen (Druries), and halfFlannels were awarded to Max Wilson (The Park), Sam McGougan and Anton Shashenkov (The Knoll). – William Seex, Master-in-Charge

Harrow's water polo squad for the ESSA competitions

THE ARCHIVE

Harrow’s 450th anniversary proved a busy period for the Archive. One the biggest events in the Archive calendar was the ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral, which involved the transportation of the School charter across London to be blessed by the Archbishop of London.

It was also the culmination of the royal seal project for which the School Conservator, Danila Narcisi, handmade replicas of the School seal to be presented to each of the Houses, International Schools and other members of the Harrow Family. Following the success of this project, the Archive was tasked with providing information to form the basis of the story told in the Summer term’s Son et Lumière production.

The Archive also collaborated with the Harrow Association to update the digital archive resources. These include The Harrovian website, WW1 website and Harrow Families website. The updates are intended to improve the user experience and we aim to launch the new pages in 2023.

There were a number of interesting displays relating to the 450th anniversary, but perhaps one of the highlights of the year was the Speech Day display in the Vaughan. The library received over 600 visitors and the feedback was extremely positive.

The Archive collections continued to grow due to donations and purchases but also through the discovery of records secreted away around the School. We found a stash of old film reels dating back to the 1950s, which included unseen footage of the Queen’s first visit to the School in 1957. It was a particularly joyful project to take those to be digitised to mark the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee weekend.

The Golland Society, named after the founder of the Archive, beak Jim Golland, carried on with the work it began last year. A number of boys engaged enthusiastically

with the collections, talks and plans for the various upcoming heritage projects.

The day-to-day activities of the Archive returned to their pre-pandemic levels, with researchers being welcomed back on site. Email, letter and phone enquiries, however, remained high. The Librarians came down to the Archive regularly to work on the updated database with the aim of creating a searchable catalogue for researchers, cataloguing School leavers and indexing previously uncatalogued records from the Archive store.

– Tace Fox, Archivist

The School’s charter and seal with the replica seals were on display at St Paul’s Cathedral

Archivist Tace Fox and Conservator Danila Narcisi at St Paul’s Cathedral

OLD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY

The autumn began in something of a low gear. The major refurbishment programme in Old Schools was not completed in OSRG areas much before half-term and Covid procedures restricted the use of the gallery only to small groups of Remove boys doing their scheduled Elective sessions.

Social-distancing procedures were strictly adhered to. No public access was permitted, and the exhibition programme was put into abeyance. The curatorial team focused on behind-the-scenes collections care and the reorganisation of storage provision for the artworks. The Curator’s upgraded office acquired a beautiful balcony at mezzanine level with purposedesigned cabinets into which the Egyptian antiquities given by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson (Harrow 1814²) were relocated. In December, the OSRG Conservator, Danila Narcisi, was tasked with making replicas of the large wax seal that is attached to the School’s foundation charter. Having carefully taken a mould from the original and attempted a variety of methods to achieve the most accurate weight, texture and colour, Ms Narcisi produced over 30 replicas that were duly distributed to the representatives of the Harrow Family at the commencement of the Harrow 450 celebrations in St Paul’s Cathedral in February.

The major exhibition produced by the OSRG team for Harrow 450 opened on 22 February. Entitled Harrow 1572–2022, it brought together the best paintings, prints, engravings, sculptures and archival documents portraying the development of the School from its foundation to the present day. Several recently discovered artworks were conserved and researched for the exhibition, not least an oil painting of the High Street (circa 1830s) once owned by Sir Peter Smithers (Rendalls 1927²), who shared an office with Ian Fleming during his days in naval intelligence, and whose covert exploits were a source of inspiration for the character James Bond. The exhibition included a feature focusing on the story of the Silver Arrow competition and displayed costumes, bows, arrows, quiver, scorecard and contemporary portraits of the 1760s.

The last silver arrow, made in 1772 but never awarded, was also included. The fragility of the exhibits means that they are unlikely ever to be put on display again.

Plans for the Harrow 450 programme included a scheme to bring together the busts of Harrovian prime ministers for permanent display in the War Memorial Building. The marble bust (created from his death mask) of assassinated prime minister Spencer Perceval (Harrow 1774) was removed from his OSRG plinth to keep company with Palmerston and Churchill in

the new setting. Professional lighting advice for the display was provided by Charles Marsden Smedley (The Park 1972³), who also facilitated the provision of new plinths for the busts of Alexander of Tunis (The Head Master’s 1906¹) and Jawaharlal Nehru (The Head Master’s 1905²).

The Community Event on 30 April was a record-breaking day for the gallery. Well over 1,000 visitors came through the doors to enjoy the exhibitions and learn the story of the School.

Nine boys volunteered their services in

The HDT supports the OSRG Conservator’s post.

Bust of Alexander of Tunis

the OSRG to attain the requisite credits for their Duke of Edinburgh’s Bronze Awards.

Nearly 40 new objects were accessioned. One notable purchase from an auction sale was an oil painting, Study of The Head Master’s House, painted by Julian Barrow (Bradbys 1953²). What is special about this particular artwork is that it was in the collection of School Governor Judge Lawrence Verney (The Head Master’s 1938²) who set up the Verney Prize for Argument in 1974 in commemoration of the 30 members of the Verney family who had attended Harrow since 1774.

On the last day of the Summer term, the Curator succeeded in acquiring a two-volume set of The Highgrove Florilegium with major contributions by Richard Shirley Smith (The Knoll 19492). It will be displayed alongside Banks’ Florilegium in the OSRG in 2023.

– Julia Walton, OSRG Curator

Oil painting of the High Street c1830s, once owned by Sir Peter Smithers

Harrow 1572–2022 exhibition

Much has been written, in its 450th year, about the founding of Harrow School (first given this name by the Governors in 1703). The roots of some of the School’s distinguishing features and customs go almost as deep; many others are of more recent, and sometimes surprising, origin.

BUILDINGS

Although John Lyon died in 1592, work did not start on building the first schoolroom until after the death of his wife Joan in 1608. It was not completed until 1615 and, after that, no other significant School buildings were constructed until the addition of the east wing to the original schoolroom in 1819. This new wing contained form rooms, a library and the first Speech Room (now the Old Speech Room Gallery).

Work on the first School Chapel began in 1839, but it was not until 1857 that another building specifically for the purpose of academic teaching was constructed. New Schools was built on the site of the old Dancing School, which the Dancing Master had been given permission to build, at his own expense, in the 1760s when dancing was considered a more important part of a gentleman’s education than many academic subjects. When New Schools opened, boys soon discovered that by tying the handles of two doors together, you could trap the inmates of two form rooms inside.

Construction of the first building specifically for the study of science started in 1874, and the Art School – then known

Harrow Firsts

East wing of Old Schools

as the Drawing School – was built in 1895.

The first House built with the purpose of boarding boys was probably Church Hill, which was erected in 1846 by Mr Middlemist near site of the War Memorial Building. Bradbys was the first of Harrow’s current Houses designed specifically for boarding – The Head Master’s, Druries, Moretons, The Grove, The Park and West Acre were existing private houses that were remodelled, extended and in some cases, as they seemed to be prone to burning down, rebuilt. Bradbys was constructed in 1848 by the Rev H Keary. It was named Bradbys after the House Master of the time in 1864.

THE FIRST HARROVIANS

The first pupil has traditionally been recognised as Macharie Wildblood, the son of the vicar of St Mary’s Church, who was also a Governor of the School. Macharie’s name was registered, and mysteriously later crossed out, on 7 August 1615.

John Lyon’s 1591 statutes allowed for boys other than the ’30 poor scholars’ recorded on the charter to be educated at his school. These ‘foreigners’ had to pay for their tuition and accommodation. The first foreigner for whom there is a record is one Hammond Claxton in 1630. He was probably a relative of Edward Claxton, who was a Governor from 1638 to 1654. The first foreigner of whom anything is known is William Baxter, who arrived from the Welsh borders in 1668. It is said that he spoke only Welsh when he came to the School, but he is recorded as later saying that ‘he first heard the Muses at Harrow’.

Bradbys

Macharie’s name was registered, and mysteriously later crossed out

New Schools

Church Hill House, 1914 Engraving by Walter M Keesey published by Blacks

MASTERS

William Launce was a 27-year-old MA of Trinity College, Cambridge, and a man of no particular distinction, when he was appointed the first Master of the Free Grammar School of John Lyon in 1615. He was probably chosen because he was known to Lord North, who was lord of the manor of Harrow and a Governor of the School. William’s younger brother, Thomas, was appointed as Usher, a second teacher, so beginning a tradition of Masters ‘keeping it in the family’ that continued into the 19th century.

In the interim between Joan Lyon’s death in 1608 and the official opening of the Free Grammar School in 1615, however, a precursor school, also funded by John Lyon, existed. Its exact location may have been a building that was known as Church House in what is now part of St Mary’s Churchyard. Sometime after Joan Lyon died, the Governors elected ‘a schoolmaster at the free schole’, who was funded through John Lyon’s will. The man who could therefore be considered Harrow’s first Master, Anthony Rate, had been a tutor in the Gerard family, members of which were instrumental in helping John Lyon obtain his royal charter.

In 1650, as the School had grown larger and the burden of teaching the youngest children to read and write before they started Latin greater, the Head Master,

William Hide, organised for poor children in Harrow and surrounding villages to be taught to read in English by ‘Dames’ appointed by the Governors. In the same year, he secured funds from the Governors to pay a ‘Writing Master’. Although he seems not to have been the first one to be employed, the first Writing Master of whom there is a record is Henry Reeves, who was appointed in 1748. One of his sons, also Henry, succeeded him as Writing Master and was appointed the first official School Librarian in 1802.

In the School’s early years, Latin and Greek were the only subjects that could be taught. During the 18th century, this limited curriculum was supplemented by teaching in mathematics, history and modern languages, and accomplishments such as dancing, drawing and fencing, which had come to be considered an indispensable part of a gentleman’s education. These subjects had to be taught outside the prescribed timetable, and boys had to pay extra for them. The first teachers were people unconnected with the School who offered lessons to whomever was willing to pay. Later, School-appointed ‘Extra Masters’ were employed in their place, although they were still paid directly by pupils. In 1819, Jacob Marillier was employed expressly to teach mathematics, with his brother Joseph as a French teacher; first science Master,

George Griffiths, was appointed in 1867. Eventually, in 1869, the Modern Side was established, giving boys the choice between joining the Classical Side, considered appropriate for the brightest boys, or the Modern Side, where the main subjects were history, mathematics, modern languages and natural science. The first Head of the Modern Side was Edward Bowen, lyricist of many Harrow Songs.

It is not clear when technology was first introduced to Harrow. Plans for the new Physics School, which opened in 1971, included, according to a report in The Harrovian, an area ‘where computer,

The Physics Schools opened in 1971

Dr Chris Crowe, the first Head of Computer Studies

project and “technology” rooms have their being’. The first ‘microprocessor’ was eventually introduced into the School in 1979. In 1981, on Speech Day, the Head Master, Michael Hoban, announced plans for ‘the introduction into our curriculum of education on a wider scale in the use of microprocessors; of the creation of a commodious audiovisual room for general use; of the establishment of a media centre to feed the various departments and to keep their individual pieces of equipment in good trim’. Until the 2010s, computer-studies teaching took place mostly in science lessons. In 2017, Dr Chris Crowe was made the first Head of Computer Studies.

HOUSES

The first ‘foreigners’ who attended the School were probably housed by local families who had no connection to the School. In 1650, the Master, William Hide, was allowed by the Governors to lease a house instead of living in his quarters in the Schoolhouse. It is probable that he moved to this larger house so that he could supplement his income by charging some of these foreigners for board and lodging. Boys were certainly boarding with the Master when, in 1670, the Master, William Horne, was given an increased allowance by the Governors specifically for the purpose of setting up the house to accommodate them. The house, which was burnt down in 1838,

stood on the same site as The Head Master’s now does. For many decades, boys boarded in houses known as Dames Houses and in houses owned or rented by Assistant Masters, who earned the bulk of their income in this way. In 1885, the School set up the Harrow Park Trust to buy The Park from its Master-owner and eventually all the principal Houses came into the School’s hands.

CONTIO LATINA

From as early as the 1650s, boys were encouraged to display their proficiency in Latin by giving speeches in the language, often on festive occasions. The chief orator

was likely to have been the ‘Janitor’ (probably the senior Monitor), and he would probably have received payment for his efforts. The first record of the occasion that came to be known as Contio Latina was in 1674, when a boy named John Dennis gave an ‘oration’ at the Governors’ annual audit meeting. Dennis went on to take a Founder’s Exhibition at Cambridge (from where he was sent down for sword fighting) and later became a minor poet, playwright and literary critic. The first Contiones were delivered by the boys who were the most proficient at Latin; it was not until the 19th century that it became the duty of the Head of School.

Contio Latina is now delivered by the Head of School

SPEECH DAY

Archery was one of the few physical activities prescribed by John Lyon’s statutes of 1591. It does not seem to have been a sport that boys took part in with any special enthusiasm until, in 1678, the Governors ordered new archery butts to be provided for the ‘execution of the Founder’s wishes’ at a site nearer the School than the old ones. In 1684, a retired diplomat living in Harrow, Sir Gilbert Talbot, presented a prize of a silver arrow, for which six and sometimes 12 boys in costumes amounting

to fancy dress competed annually. This competition became a highlight of the School year, with boys taking a month off schoolwork to practise. It seems to have been so significant that, in 1750, Head Master Thomas Thackeray adopted the crossed arrows as a School badge and subsequently added it to the lion on the School crest. The competition was held annually from 1697 until 1771, when the event is said to have become unacceptably rowdy, and the Head Master, Dr Heath, unwilling allow the boys to devote so much

time to practising. In its place, Dr Heath instituted not one but three Speech Days, in May, June and July. These involved senior boys declaiming Greek or Latin oratorical monologues, or occasionally extracts from the Aeneid and, later, Shakespeare. Speech Days were reduced to two in in 1829 and one in 1844. Before the building of the first Speech Room in Old Schools in 1819, Speech Day took place in the Dancing School where New Schools now stands.

Two portraits of boys in Silver Arrow costumes from the Harrow School collection. Left – John Sayer, 1770, by George Romney (1734–1802); right – John, Lord Mount Stuart, 1759, after Allan Ramsay (1713–84)

John Farmer

The Silver Arrow trophy

SONGS

Musician John Farmer was first employed, and paid, by boys from Harrow’s Musical Society in 1862 to help them with their musical activities. At the time, music was regarded with a degree of suspicion by the School but, in 1864, Farmer was eventually appointed School Organist and Instructor in Music by Head Master Montagu Butler, and conducted the first-ever concert given by boys in a School building. Farmer encouraged the participation of all boys in massed singing sessions and persuaded the House Masters to let him come into the Houses for evening singing parties. Grove Hill and Moretons were the first to welcome him. A letter in The Harrovian of 13 November 1869 records that: ‘The formation of the Glee Society and of the Supplementary Choir, bears witness to the increased interest in music, which has lately arisen in the School; nor, must we omit to mention the House Choirs, for they, from their wide-spread nature, exercise a far greater influence than either of the former bodies’.

At the first gatherings, the songs were of a hearty traditional nature, but Farmer wanted boys to have their own songs that meant something to them, so he asked Harrow Masters to provide lyrics for some of his compositions. The earliest songs produced by Masters, the first of which was Io Triumphe in 1864, were in Latin but, in 1867, the first song with English lyrics, Willow the King, was written by Edward Bowen.

What could be considered the first Churchill Songs took place when Sir Winston Churchill attended Songs in 1940. He returned the following year and these ‘Songs visits’ continued annually almost until the end of his life. Today, Churchill Songs is held every year in his memory.

The Glees and Twelves competition also seems to have been established soon after John Farmer’s arrival. The Harrovian of 27 May 1871 records: ‘The successful House in the glee singing was again the Rev. Dr. Butler’s, after a close contest with Mr. Hayward’s House. For the best set of twelve voices, Mr. Hayward’s House easily carried off the palm, and their victory was, by universal consent, well-deserved.’

Churchill Songs, 2017

Edward E Bowen, House Master of The Grove 1881–1901

SCHOOL DRESS

Today’s School dress has its roots in sportswear. Until the middle of 19th century, Harrovians wore the ordinary costume of the time. In the 1850s, most boys had adopted the combination of a tailcoat, black waistcoat, striped trousers, black tie and a type of top hat known as a beaver; younger boys wore coats without tails. The straw hat seems to have originated in a hat worn for cricket in the 1820s, and it had become common as summer wear during the 1830s; sometime in the 1860s, it became the preferred weekday headgear. By 1881, some boys had adopted grey flannel trousers to wear with their tails at cricket, and by 1888 they had come into general use, along with a blue jacket that had been introduced during the 1880s for games. By 1900, there were two distinct styles of dress: formal School dress and the greyers and bluer combination, known as half-change.

During the First World War, bluers and greyers with a white shirt, black tie and straw hat were first adopted as standard School dress for reasons of economy. After the Second World War, the difficulty in obtaining the necessary straw meant that compulsory wearing of the hat fell temporarily into abeyance, much to the concern of many boys. The Harrovian of 23 October 1946 included a poem in its honour:

Pride of our Hill, once gracing every head, How art thou fallen since the days of yore!

The waste of frolic, scarcity and war

Conspire to make thee all but gone and dead. Once thou wert Harrow, it could well be said: And Herga’s sons could then be known for sure

By the faint mark that ‘neath their crowns they bore. What will now serve to make them known instead?

The loyalties we learned upon the Hill, The spirit of good friendship and fair play, The things that matter – all are with us still, Though their straw symbol’s nearly passed away. With a straight bat we’ll yet play a straight game; Hats or no hats, we’ll go on just the same.

Harrow hat

Younger boys’ uniform in the 1860s

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

A Timeline History of Harrow School 1572 to the Present by Dale Vargas

A History of Harrow School by Christopher Tyerman

Harrow by J Fisher Williams

Harrow School Yesterday and Today by E D Laborde Harrow School by Edward W Howson and George Townsend Warner

A version of the article appeared in the programme for the 2022 Churchill Songs at the Royal Albert Hall.

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The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition

Shell Prize

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The Clementi Collard Prize for Imperial History

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The Oxenham Remove Prize for Latin Reading

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The Remove Values Medal

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The James Poke Junior Prize for Music Composition

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The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry

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The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Fifth Form Prize

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The Fifth Form Art Prize

The Mark Maples Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Lower School

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The MacPherson Fifth Form Prize for Ancient History

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The Lady Bourchier Junior Reading Prize

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The Oxenham Fifth Form Prize for Latin Reading

Sam Phillips

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The Verney Fifth Form Prize for French

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St John Smith

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise

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The Kingsley Prize for Design Technology

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

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Zachary Uduehi

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The Fifth Form Theology and Philosophy Prize

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The Ottley Prize for Shakespeare

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

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The Harry Watts General Knowledge Fifth Form Prize

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The Lower Crawford Prize for Mathematics

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Alex Yi

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LOWER SIXTH PRIZES

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The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

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The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

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The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

Alex Aldrich-Blake

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The Paul Lewis Senior Science Lecture Prize

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition

Lower Sixth Form Prize

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Olympiad Competition

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The Harvard Book Prize

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The Bourchier Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

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The Geoffrey Simmonds Prize for Economics

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The Christopher Cooke Prize for English Literature

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The Hyde Thomson Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

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The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

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The Lower Sixth Form Theology and Philosophy

Research Prize

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Solo Singing

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The Eustace Prize for Biology

The Charles Lillingston Prize for History

The Business Prize

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Language

The Oxenham Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Reading

The Beddington Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Dr R A Robinson Prize for Practical Science

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

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The Lower Sixth Form History of Art Prize

The Lower Sixth Form Values Medal

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Ivan Thayil

Josh Thompson

Yizi Wei

Yuzhen Yang

Sunny Ye, Sch.

UPPER SIXTH PRIZES

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The Parsonson Prize for Mathematics

The Coward Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The Dalton Prize for Mathematics

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The Jonathan Head Barrow Sixth Form Prize for Short Story

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

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Tobias Adetula

Aakash Aggarwal, Sch.

Que Akhavan Zanjani, Sch.

Ezekiel Akinsanya

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

Edward Blunt

Jake Brockwell

The Aberdeen Prize for Design Technology

The Christie-Murray Prize for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts

The Angad Paul Prize for Economics

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

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The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The Mumtaz Habib Senior Essay Prize

The Halliday Prize for All-round Geographical

Contributions

The Lucas Prize for Brass Instruments

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Pigou Prize for Economics

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Adam Chambers, Sch.(Art) The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Justin Chan

The Neeld Prize for Mathematics

Brandon Chang, Sch., Exh.(Mus.) The A.W. Hill Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Baker Prize for Mathematics

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

The Salters’ Company Prize for Chemistry

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Gold Certificate in the UK Physics Olympiad Competition

David Chen, Sch.

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Edward Cleeve, Sch. The A W Hill Prize for Chemistry

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Kyle Debrah, Exh.(Mus.) The Harry Shapland Prize for Drama

Harvey Douglas

The Angus Sixsmith Prize for Piping

Max Ferreira, Sch.(OT), Sch.(Art) The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Christopher Gujadhur

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Vadim Gurinov, Sch.(Art) The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Henry Hancock

The Leonard Walton Upper Sixth Form French Prize

Edos Herwegh Vonk, Sch. The David McLean Prize for Engineering

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

The Technical Theatre Prize

British Physics Olympiad Gold Award

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Matt Travis The Harry Watts General Knowledge Upper Sixth Form Prize

The St Helier Prize for English Literature

The Terence Rattigan Prize

Aarav Tribhuvan, Sch. The A W Hill Prize for Biology

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Marcus Tung, Sch., Sch.(Art) The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Rafe Hogben

The Gaskell Prize for Photography

Nicklas Host-Verbraak, Sch.(OT) The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Medicine

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

William Wauchope, Sch. The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

The Oxenham Upper Sixth Form Prize for Latin Reading

The Spicer Prize for Theology and Philosophy

Freddie Weatherby Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Eddie Jodrell

Jack Joyce

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

The Hyde Thomson Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

The Ralton Prize for Business

Leon Kinaro, Sch.

Yujin Koshiba, Sch.(Sport)

Archie Kyd, Sch.

Ben Kyd

Angus Labrum

Patrick Lehrell

Ben Leonard

The Chinese Prize

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Ralph Moore Senior Prize for Handwriting

The Sir Percival Marling Prize for Design Technology

The Alastair McLean Prize for Drama

Haiwei Li, Sch.(Mus.) The Verney Prize for Pianoforte

Lucas Maia

Felix Majumdar

The Guy Butlin Prize for Spanish

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Nick Martin, Sch.(Art) The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Joe McGuinness, Ex.(Mus.) The Oxenham Upper Sixth Prize for Greek Reading

Issah Ali Merchant, Sch. The Baron Boulos Prize for Economics

Henry Oelhafen

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

James Pang, Sch. The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Max Paton-Smith, Sch.(Drama) The Warwick-Smith Prize for Outstanding Contribution to the Rattigan Society

Henry Pearce, Sch.(OT) The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Archie Powell, Sch. Anthology 450 Prize (Senior)

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Ilyas Qureshi, Exh.(Mus.) The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

John Richardson

Tom Roe

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Russell Prize for Shakespeare

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Nathan Shepard, Exh.(Mus.) The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir

The Oliver Sichel Prize for Singing

Jun Wha Shin, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) The Botfield Upper Sixth Form Prize for German

The Coward Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The Stenhouse Prize for Woodwind Instruments

Hanno Sie The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian

William Tate, Sch.(DTE) The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Upper School

The Williams Prize for Biology

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Freddie Taylor, Exh.(Mus.) The Charles Laborde Prize for Geography

The Macnamara Prize for Geography

Theo Tomlinson, Sch.(Drama) The Sebastian Graham-Jones Prize for Drama

Apollo Wilkins, Sch. The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Dylan Winward, Sch. The Dodd Prize for Oratory

The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

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

The McIntosh Prize for History

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

The Technical Theatre Prize

Joseph Wragg, Sch.(Mus.) The Bourchier Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The Briscoe Eyre Upper Sixth Form Prize for Music

The David Gordon Memorial Prize for Services to the Chapel Choir

The James Poke Prize for Music Composition

The Mavrogordato Prize for Ancient History

The Oliver Sichel Prize for Singing

The Upper Sixth Form Values Medal

David Xu, Sch. Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Cody Xu, Sch.

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

The Exeter Prize for Biology

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Benji Xu The Calcutt Prize for Art History

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Jonathan Yuan, Sch.(Mus.) The Wallace and Walton Prize for Strings

Bryan Yuen

The Botfield Upper Sixth Form Prize for German Newton Zhu Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry

Olympiad Competition

Remi Jokosenumi, Sch.(OT) The Head Master’s Prize

Phoenix Ashworth, Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) The Head Master’s Prize

HARROW 450 A PHOTOGRAPHIC CELEBRATION OF HARROW SCHOOL

Over 450 beautiful photographs which include rarely seen artefacts from the Harrow School Archive, Old Speech Room Gallery and views from across the estate.

THIS BEAUTIFUL BOOK is a visual biography of Harrow School. From its founding to the present day, photographer Will Cooper takes us on a journey that delves deep into Harrow’s archives and collections, buildings and traditions.

We visit the quieter corners of the School, rediscover familiar friends, uncover the unknown and travel through time to enjoy rarely seen artefacts from the School’s collections.

From Byron’s slippers to Churchill’s letters, from the Fourth Form Room to Lyon’s, these stunning photographs make up a unique record of 450 years of Harrow School.

BY WILLIAM COOPER £80

HOW TO ORDER

To order your copy visit harrowschoolenterprises.com/a-photographiccelebration-of-harrow-school or scan the QR code.

plus P&P

Postage and packaging will be an additional £4.40

HARROW ASSOCIATION

A GLOBAL OLD HARROVIAN COMMUNITY

The Harrow Association (HA) supports and connects Harrovians of all generations, wherever they are in the world, helping them maintain lifelong connections with the School and with each other, and assisting their various global endeavours.

The HA works closely with the Harrow School 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 areas: Community, Careers and Employability, and Heritage.

COMMUNITY

KEEPING OHs CONNECTED

It was wonderful to be able to welcome 125 OHs to the first House Dinner for many months in the 2021 Autumn term, with The Knoll House dinner at The Ironmongers’ Hall in celebration of the House’s 150th anniversary in September. In October, Speech Room was once again filled with the voices of OHs singing Harrow songs as we welcomed back the 1975³–1980² cohort to the Hill for HA Songs.

Paul Manduca (Rendalls 1965³) gave the first Harrow 450 Giant Talk, ‘The City of London: Global Leadership Post Brexit’, to a large audience of OHs in October, and November saw many OHs who had served or are currently serving in the armed forces attending the War Memorial Rededication Ceremony to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the laying of the War Memorial foundation stone. Later in the year, OHs were in fine voice at our much-loved annual HA Carol Service at St Stephen Walbrook, with many familiar faces in attendance.

In November, we were saddened to hear of the death of our much-loved former colleague Jeremy Lloyd-Jones (Druries 1974¹), HA Manager between 2003 and 2008. He continues to be greatly missed by many OHs, the School and the wider Harrow community.

January 2022 saw the launch of the 450th anniversary of the foundation of the School. Many OHs joined the School at St Paul’s Cathedral for the Harrow 450 Service of Refoundation in February, and many others joined remotely via livestream for

what was a truly memorable event. Later that month, on Founder’s Day, a record number of OHs returned to play Harrow footer and other sports after a two-year hiatus. In March, we held a special HA Songs for Former Heads and Deputy Heads of School with 70 OHs and guests gathering in Speech Room. A well-attended Harrow 450 dinner was held in New York for OHs and guests in April, the first of several OH dinners across the globe. In March, we bade farewell to our President of five years HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (The Park 1960³), for whose unstinting service to the HA during his tenure we were extremely grateful. In April, we welcomed Timothy Bentinck MBE (Moretons 1966³) as our new HA President for the next five years.

Harrow 450 Giant talk – Paul Manduca

Harrow Association President Timothy Bentinck MBE with Chairman Adam Hart

Harrow 450 dinner in New York

Harrow 450 dinner in New York

The global OH community continued to connect through the exclusive OH networking platform OH Connect, finding old friends, making career connections, booking for events or advertising their businesses. Over 4,200 OHs are now registered on the site, the largest number of alumni using this platform of any UK

school, and we encourage all OHs to join the site if they haven’t yet done so. Many OH clubs and societies were able to hold in-person events for their members, including the OH Players, who performed The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse over two nights in early September, continuing their run of 70 years

of uninterrupted performances of Shakespeare plays. Other groups who met over the months included the OH Association Football Club, OH Golf Society, Harrow Wanderers, OH Cross-country, The Byronics and the Harrow Aviation Club, who hosted a wonderful day for Harrovians at Elstree Aerodrome in June.

HERITAGE

DIGITAL ARCHIVES AND PODCASTS

CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY

A NEW GRADUATE AND POST-GRADUATE INITIATIVE

In autumn 2021, the HA continued to work alongside Michael Wright, and latterly Janki Amin, the School’s Careers Advisor, employed jointly by the School and the HA, as well as the wider School Careers team to offer career support and guidance to Harrovians. In September 2021, the HA launched a new careers initiative for OHs of all generations, but more specifically for OHs at university and recent graduates. It offers fully funded one-to-one consultations with one of two leading careers experts, Andrea Darley,

whose expertise is in the field of graduate recruitment and selection, and Alastair Hill (Elmfield 1984³), a pioneering career and performance coach. This offer was widely taken up and proved invaluable to many OHs getting to grips with the recruitment and jobs market and by those who are after later-life careers guidance.

Many OHs continued to give their time to support the Business Lunches programme and careers talks organised by the Careers team. The regular work experience programme was able to start again in the summer, with many boys being offered placements by OHs.

The HA is proud of its close relationship with the School Archive, and we continued to work together both to preserve Harrow’s traditions and heritage and share our history. The HA continued to sponsor small heritage projects such as the refurbishment of the memorial benches on the Chapel Terrace. Another project that got underway was the upgrade to the Harrow Digital Archive, including the much-used The Harrovian site. The launch of this all-encompassing, new-look site will mark the conclusion of the 450th anniversary year. Meanwhile, we also continued to produce and release our podcasts recorded by Harry Bucknall (West Acre 1978³) and Chris Stebbings (Rendalls 1978³) and featuring former beaks and OHs.

OH Players performed The Tempest at the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse

Founder’s Day Harrow football

Memorial benches on Chapel Terrace

OH NEWS AND OHs IN THE NEWS

Theglobal OH community continued to impress with all manner of achievements, and we relished collating these and sharing them with fellow OHs in our annual magazine, Follow Up! In the latest magazine, we featured OH professional rugby players, OHs in law, the young OH behind DASH water, an OH artist making a name for himself globally and a piece on OHs living and working in the Cayman Islands. OHs continued to win awards, start new businesses, receive Honours and much more besides. We encourage OHs to stay in touch and let us know what they’re up to so we can celebrate and champion their success.

OUR SINCEREST GRATITUDE

Following nearly 17 years with the HA, our Director, Perena Shryane, retired at the end of August 2022.

The many OHs who have dealt with her over the years will know of her dedication and deep affection for Harrow School and all things Old Harrovian. We are sure you will join us in extending our sincerest gratitude for her tireless commitment to the HA, and for the numerous initiatives she introduced during her tenure. OHs have all enjoyed the benefit of her efforts and we all wish her well for what will no doubt be a busy retirement.

KEEP IN TOUCH

Telephone us on +44 (0)20 8872 8200

Email us at ha@harrowschool.org.uk or oldharrovians@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 harrowschool-harrowfamilies.org.uk

Read digital editions of the Contio dating back to 1770 at harrowschool-contiolatina.org.uk

Access digital material relating to Harrow and WW1 at harrowschool-ww1.org.uk

THE EXECUTIVE

President

Timothy Bentinck MBE (Moretons 1966³)

Chairman

Adam Hart (West Acre 19771)

Executive Board

Heyrick Bond-Gunning (West Acre 1985³) – until April 2022

Pierre Ali-Noor (West Acre 2001³)

James Darley (The Park 1984³)

James de Broë-Ferguson (The Grove 1981³)

Phillip Gajland (Druries 2010³)

Mumtaz Habib (Bradbys 2003³)

Peter Hedley (West Acre 2008³)

Harry Melsom (Elmfield 1998³)

Will Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 1998³)

Director

Perena Shryane – retired August 2022

Interim Director

Will Landale (The Grove 1978³) landalewjf@harrowschool.org.uk

Alumni Officer

Shama Alimohamed alimohamedsp@harrowschool.org.uk

Communications Manager

Jessica Bellringer bellringerjr@harrowschool.org.uk

Data Management Officer

James McLeod mcleodj@harrowschool.org.uk

Database and Research Officer

Emma Pinto pintoel@harrowschool.org.uk

Finance Manager

Debbie Hannaway hannawayd@harrowschool.org.uk

Careers Advisor Janki Amin aminja@harrowschool.org.uk

Sir Jeremy Greenstock at HA Songs for former Heads of School

HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST

It is rare to be reflecting on a year of which a major part included – and still includes – a celebration of 450 years.

The Harrow Development Trust (HDT) has played its part in these happy celebrations. A prelude to the anniversary took place in November 2021 with a spectacular Gala Auction and Dinner at Banqueting House, a celebration of Harrovian talent that raised £750,000 towards our 450 priorities.

In February, for the first time in the history of the HDT, we held a Harrow 450 Giving Day, involving many members of the Harrow community from boys in the School to OHs and parents around the world. Over the 36-hour period, an astonishing £1 million was raised in gifts, pledges and matched funding.

We also introduced the 450 Society, a way to honour benefactors at various contribution levels, ranging from Bronze to Platinum. Membership has risen to more than 1,195 and increases weekly, thus fulfilling the Trustees’ strategy of widening donor participation substantially.

An additional legacy of the 450th year is taking shape on the eastern, London-facing side of the Hill. There, our exciting new science building is gradually rising from its foundations. Further up the Hill, the School’s dining hall is being comprehensively renovated and extended. Both projects will be completed next year.

The HDT Trustees and I would like to extend our sincerest thanks to the many contributors who have ‘played their part’ and supported the School’s ambitions in this the 450th year since Harrow’s foundation. Thank you.

– Douglas Collins, CEO

HARROW 450 – CELEBRATING OUR PAST AND REFOUNDING OUR FUTURE

Two short videos were commissioned as part of the Harrow 450 programme. They can be viewed here:

Celebrating our Past harrowschool.org.uk/support/ celebrating-our-past-refounding -our-future

Refounding our Future harrowschool.org.uk/support/harrow-450

2021/2022 HEADLINES

£8.7m FUNDS RAISED IN NEW GIFTS

1,146 SUPPORTERS GAVE TO HARROW

492 NEW DONORS

5,422 GIFTS MADE

£70m

RAISED IN DONATIONS AND PLEDGES TO DATE TOWARDS THE £100M HARROW 450 CAMPAIGN TARGET

450 SOCIETY

The 450 Society recognises everyone who supports the Harrow 450 programme. We are deeply grateful to the 1,195 members of the Harrow global community who have joined to date. We are especially thrilled that 52 beaks and staff, 500 current and 250 former parents and 57 boys are members, demonstrating their support for the School and for the generations of Harrovians who will follow in their footsteps. The 450 Society will remain open for new members throughout 2023 and beyond and we would be delighted to welcome new members at any time.

HARROW 450 GALA DINNER, TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN AND GIVING DAY

During the year, the HDT undertook three key fundraising events that raised an extraordinary £2,250,000

£750,000

TELEPHONE CAMPAIGN

£500,000

£1m GIVING DAY

GALA DINNER

BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

The School aims, by the end of this decade, to increase its bursary provision from its current support for around 100 boys to supporting over 250 boys, of whom 100 would be on awards of 90% or more of the fees. The HDT is aiming to raise £20m as part of the plan to fund this ambition.

raised for £2.8m bursaries

114 boys supported by bursary funding

The first Churchill Place holder completed his first year at Harrow (and was appointed a School Monitor) and a second holder completed two years at prep school, funded by the Churchill Place scheme.

BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

The HDT is funding the building programme currently underway on the Hill.

Science building

The new science building is rising out of the ground at pace and is on track to be finished in time for the start of the next academic year.

1m

£ legacy received

Science building under construction

Shepherd Churchill Dining Hall

When this significant work is completed in 2024, the dining hall will be a wonderful hub, bringing the School together three times a day as well as offering substantial commercial opportunities and will be available to share with the local community.

HERITAGE

The HDT aims to raise £10m to help fund the heritage projects that are part of the Harrow 450 campaign.

2022 saw the completion of the Teaching and Learning Hub in Old Schools, a fitting fusion of the old and the new: Harrow’s first building with a facility to equip Harrovians for the technological challenges and opportunities of the 21st century.

Over the summer of 2022, significant investment was made in The Park, The Knoll and Elmfield. The aim of these works was to improve the common spaces in the Houses. These projects are part of a wider programme of improvement that will contine throughout the 12 boarding Houses over the next decade.

HOW TO SUPPORT HARROW

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

Visit harrowschool.org.uk/supportharrow to find out more or speak to the HDT team on +44 (0)20 8872 8500.

WHO’S WHO IN THE HDT Trustees

Jim Glover (Rendalls 19783) Chairman

John Batting (The Park 1972²)

Marina Brounger

Matthew Fosh (The Head Master’s 1971² )

Nikhil Hirdaramani (The Park 1988³)

Adam Hart (West Acre 19771)

Patrick Wong (West Acre 1986³)

Harrow Development Trust

Douglas Collins Chief Executive

William Landale (The Grove 1978³) Director

William Young Director

Felicity Benjamin PA to the Chief Executive

James McLeod Data Management Officer

Gregory Warmback (Newlands 20141) Development Officer

Emma Pinto Database and Research Officer

Debbie Hannaway Finance Manager

Jessica Bellringer Communications Manager

Proposed remodelling of the entrance to the Shepherd Churchill building

The Harrow Development Trust is a registered charity, no 296097

ORDER OF BENEFACTORS

WE CELEBRATE OUR BENEFACTORS

Benefactors who have given or pledged sums to the School, via Harrow Development Trust, for the continuing advancement of Harrow are listed in the following pages. Those who have donated to the Harrow 450 Campaign and who qualify for membership of the 450 Society are denoted with a 450. We remain grateful to those who have donated in previous years. We express deep gratitude to all of them, including those who have asked for their names to remain anonymous or whom we may have inadvertently omitted, for which we apologise. Benefactors who are recently deceased are marked with an *.

Dr C J D Catto 450

J H Cook 450

E A C Crump 450

Forrest 450

J P A Readman 450

E C D Sixsmith 450

W E Whitehouse-Vaux 450

Sir John Beckwith CBE 450

S A StJ Miller 450

I F M Ellvers 450

M K Whitelock

M J T Chamberlayne 450

G Dahl 450

D Pollock-Hill 450

G Stafford Allen 450

J Babtie

M G Copeland 450

R W Hensman OBE DL

A F Kemp 450

Cllr H W V Meares 450

S J Richards

B Q Back 450

T C B Dehn 450

R J Goodhew

M J Keenan 450

J E Lesser

Sir George White Bt 450

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Mr A Abenov & Mrs A Temirtas

Mr & Mrs K Abualsaud

Mr & Mrs B Acar

Mr & Mrs R Ackah 450

Dr & Mrs A M Ackermann

Mr A Adams 450

Mr & Mrs F Addati

Mrs O Adebiyi 450

Mr & Mrs O Adetula

Mr & Mrs D K T Adomakoh

Mr A Ait El Caid & Ms C Caponi

Mr & Mrs M Aiyeola

Mr & Mrs T Akindele

Mrs C Alabi

Mrs M Alaka 450

Mr M Aldridge 450

Mr & Mrs J W E Allday

Lt Col & Mrs P Allen 450

Mr R Amaan 450

Mr & Mrs E E Amankrah

Miss A Amihyia 450

Mr & Mrs E Amissah 450

Mr & Mrs C Anantaprakorn 450

Dr & Mrs S H C Anderson 450

Mr & Mrs D I S Anderson

Mr & Mrs A E Anenih 450

Dr & Mrs A Anyanwu 450

Dr & Mrs M Apabhai 450

Mrs L M Arnison 450

Mr & Mrs D K Arthur 450

Ms G Ashkenazi 450

Mr & Mrs S A Ashley 450

Mr & Mrs P J C Ashworth

Mr & Mrs A Au-Yeung 450

Mr T-J Aw & Dr N Chauvidul-Aw

Mr & Mrs A Awolesi

Mrs R L Ayliffe 450

Mr & Mrs G E I Ayoub 450

Mrs L H A Balagova Kandour

Mr & Mrs C J Ball 450

Mr & Mrs C D Banfield 450

Mr & Mrs P J C Barley 450

Mr & Mrs B T Barrett

Mr & Mrs R Barry

Mr & Mrs Z S Basak 450

Mr & Mrs T A Basran 450

Mr G W Bater & Ms K M E Hudson 450

Ms Z Bavakunji 450

Mr & Mrs K A Bedu-Addo 450

Mr & Mrs Y Berk 450

Mr & Mrs R Bernardi 450

Mr & Mrs J C H Berry

Mr & Mrs J S Bhaika 450

Mr & Mrs N Bibolat 450

Mr & Mrs M R J Blake McGrath

Mr & Mrs R C Blunt 450

Mr & Mrs J Boegh-Nielsen 450

Mr & Mrs B Bokan 450

Mr & Mrs S N Boland 450

Mr S J Boreham & Ms E J Crawford 450

Mr & Mrs J A R Bovell 450

Miss S L Bradshaw 450

Mr & Mrs G Breeze 450

Mr & Mrs P Brindley 450

Mr & Mrs D M Brocklebank 450

Mr & Mrs D W J Brounger 450

Mr & Mrs R D Brown 450

Mr & Mrs H M P Bruinette

Mr & Mrs N F Bullen 450

Mrs M Burston

Mr & Mrs R Burt

Mr & Mrs R Burt 450

Mr & Mrs J P Byrne 450

Mr & Mrs J Campbell 450

Mr & Mrs P H Casely-Hayford 450

Mr J Castellano La Chica & Mrs C Burguera Arienza 450

Mr & Mrs T S R Chalmers

Mr & Mrs G A Chambers 450

Mr Y S Chan & Ms P S Wan 450

Dr A W F Chan & Dr W S W Ho 450

Dr & Mrs R Chan 450

Mr C L Chan & Mrs S L Ma 450

Mr K B S Chang & Ms M W J Chow 450

Mr & Mrs R N Chatwin

Mr & Mrs K M Chau

Mr T Chen & Mrs X Fan 450

Mr H Chen & Mrs X Hu 450

Mr L R Chen & Ms S X Ding 450

Mr Y H Chen & Ms M C Luk 450

Mr R L Cheng & Mrs H Zhang 450

Mr E Cherpion & Mrs I Vander Elst 450

Mrs P J Chetwynd-Talbot

Mr F S Y Cheuk & Mrs K S K Cheuk-Wong 450

Mrs T Chiimba 450

Mr C S Ching & Ms Y Y Tsang 450

Mr & Mrs A Chisnall 450

Mr D Chiu & Mrs Y N N So 450

Mr W Cooper

Mr E Choi & Ms Y Chung 450

Mr J K M Chow & Ms N M A Chan 450

Mr & The Hon B C Clayton-Bennett 450

Mr A K J Codrington 450

Mrs J L Codrington

Ms F H Coldicott

Mr & Mrs J R Collier-Wright

Mr & Mrs A M Collins 450

Dr & Mrs R E Cook

Mr & Dr J Corsellis

Mr & Mrs J E H Cowlrick 450

Mrs L A Cross

Mrs C Curtis 450

Mr & Mrs H P B Cutler 450

Mr & Mrs M N Cutts 450

Mr & Mrs F Da Silveira Pinheiro 450

Mr & Mrs B D’Angelin 450

Sir Edward & Lady Dashwood

Mr & Mrs R de Hemptinne 450

Mr & Mrs R K Debrah 450

Mr & Mrs K Denman 450

Mr & Dr C Desai 450

Mr F S Dewotor & Ms E Panshina 450

Mr X Ding & Mrs Y Zhang 450

Dr F J Dolby

Mr & Mrs M C Doros 450

Mrs L Doughty 450

Mr & Mrs B Dreesmann 450

Mr C Du Roy De Blicquy & Mrs M L N De Brouwer 450

Mr & Mrs H J Du Toit 450

Mr & Mrs A P Dunn 450

Mr & Mrs O Edu

Mr N J Ekpenyong & Ms N E Xenofontova 450

Mr & Mrs M R Eldridge 450

Mr & Mrs P Eledan

Mr & Dr M K Elliott 450

Mr & Mrs M C Emerson

Mr & Mrs J M Emery 450

Mrs A P Engelen

Mr & Mrs D Epton

Mr & Mrs J P Esposito 450

Ms E R Evans

Mr & Mrs J Evans-Tovey

Mr & Mrs A J Everall 450

Mr & Mrs T W Falcon

Mr M Fan & Mrs F Y Zhang 450

Mrs E V Farah

Mr & Mrs M Fasinro 450

Mrs A C Felton

Mr & Mrs H M Fenwick

Mr & Mrs S Ferneyhough

Ms A C Filotico 450

Mr & Mrs P Finch

Mr & Mrs T J Fitzherbert 450

Mr J L Fontana & Mrs P Satrustegui

Mr J S Ford & Ms S M Huang 450

Mr & Mrs R Forrest 450

Mr & Mrs S C Francis 450

Mr W Fu & Ms L Yuan 450

Mr & Mrs J S P Fulford 450

Mr & Mrs J S Gallagher 450

Dr M R Gardner & Dr M A Sahra-Naward 450

Mr A Gardner & Mrs A Mac-Crohon Gardner 450

Mr K Gaw & Mrs P Tung-Gaw 450

Mr & Mrs I R Gethin 450

Mr & Mrs S Ghersi 450

Mr G S L Gianasso 450

Mrs L J Gianasso

Mr & Mrs M G Gibson 450

Mr & Mrs J M S Gisborne 450

Mr E S Gleason & Ms P J Robinson

Mr & Mrs H C Goldberg 450

Mr & Mrs A A Gosden 450

Mr C P J Gower & Ms R G Johannes

Mr & Mrs E Grant 450

Mr R C Grassly

Mr & Mrs J R Gray 450

Mr & Mrs P D Gray 450

Mr M A J Gregory

Mr J T Griffin & Ms K M H Cole 450

Mr C Gu & Mrs W Jiang 450

Mr M Gujadhur & Ms H S Gujadhur Bell 450

Mr C Guo & Mrs L Wang 450

Mr Z Guo & Ms S Wang

Mr & Mrs G Hall

Mr & Mrs R H Hamblin 450

Mr & Mrs A H Hammad 450

Mr P Handley 450

Mr & Mrs C P Hargreaves

Mr & Mrs J D Harrison 450

Mr & Mrs P A Haworth 450

Mr & Mrs C A E Hedley

Mr O Hemsley

Mr M L Henry & Mrs D K Finnegan 450

Mr & Mrs M L Herron

Mr & Mrs U R W Herschel 450

Mr & Mrs M P Hersee 450

Dr F Higuchi 450

Mr C E Hill 450

Mr & Mrs T P J Hill

Mr & Mrs R Hinduja 450

Mr L S H Ho & Ms P S D Li 450

Mr & Mrs T Hobbs

Mr & Mrs A J Hoggett 450

Ms J M Holmes

Mr H M Hong & Ms K W Ma

Mrs Y Hong 450

Mr & Mrs T W Hopkins

Mr & Mrs N Hoshi 450

The Hon William Hotham 450

Mr G Howes & Ms F Milligan

Mr W H Hu & Ms H Chen 450

Mr D Hu & Mrs L Yang 450

Mr J Huang & Mrs Y Tao

Ms V Hunston-Field

Dr J Hyun & Dr Y Ra

Mr & Ms M T Inpan 450

Dr & Dr T Ishikawa 450

Ms N Ivancev 450

Mr M Jang & Mrs G Lim

Mr H Jiang & Ms W Zhou 450

Mr & Mrs W A Jodrell

Mr & Mrs A M Jokosenumi

Dr & Dr B Jones 450

Mr & Mrs G Jones

Mr & Mrs T A Jones 450

Mr D Joshi & Mrs A Tiwari

Mrs T Josserand 450

Mr & Mrs J R Joyce 450

Mr J Kain & Ms L Ban 450

Mr S T Kainth & Ms R K Mehmi 450

Mr N F A Kamil 450

Dr M Kandour

Mrs M Kantaria 450

Mr & Dr C Kantaris

Mr & Dr S Karri 450

Mr & Mrs R R Kawkabani

Mr & Mrs T Keaveney 450

Mr M P Keeble

Mr & Mrs C L Keey 450

Mr & Mrs J L Keffer 450

Mr & Mrs G J A Keith

Mr & Mrs M S Kelsey 450

Dr L Kenda

Mr & Mrs A Kingsley 450

Mr & Mrs A Kolawole 450

Mr B Ku & Mrs J Kim 450

Mr T Kulibayev & Ms G Ashkenazi

Mr & Mrs T Kuner 450

Mr & Mrs Y Kunitomo 450

Mr & Mrs J B G Laing 450

Dr & Mrs T Y D Lam 450

Mr Y L J Lam & Ms S H M Chan 450

Mr & Mrs J K W Lam

Dr C M Lambert & Dr J Ives

Mr & Mrs G B Langston 450

Mr & Mrs P Lanni 450

Mr & Mrs A Latham 450

Mr & Mrs C P Latilla-Campbell 450

Ms E A Lawless 450

Mr L Lawrence-Ojo & Miss A Ogunbayo

Mr & Mrs N J A Lawson 450

Dr A Lee

Mrs S Lee-Clarke

Mr & Mrs J J Leney 450

Mr & Mrs B Leonard 450

Mr & Mrs G Leong

Dr & Mrs C B Lesesne 450

Mr & Mrs J Leung 450

Mr M T N Liddiard OBE MStJ JP 450

Mr K C H Lin & Mrs M Koshiba Lin 450

Mr & Mrs J M Linares 450

Professor & Mrs C Liu 450

Mr & Mrs E K Y Lo 450

Mr & Mrs J A Lozinski 450

Dr & Dr R Lubbe 450

Mr & Mrs F C R Ludlam 450

Mr R Lumley

Mr H C L Ma & Dr G Y S Leung

Mr & Mrs J V Macdonald 450

Mr C I C MacGregor

Mr & Mrs R A C Mackay 450

Mr H Mackie

Mr & Mrs A J H Maclean 450

Mr T M Macleod & Ms C E Wei 450

Mr A C Maia & Ms T Stalker

Mr K Maidment & Mrs S Pesel

Mr G Majed & Ms C Gale 450

Dr A N Majumdar & Mrs I R Carvigan 450

The Duke and Duchess of Marlborough

Mr & Mrs O Marre

Mr S C Martin & Dr L Lakasing 450

Mr & Mrs M J Martins 450

Dr & Mrs W Mazrani

Mr & Mrs J W E McCorquodale 450

Mr & Mrs P A McCreanor 450

Mr & Mrs P J McCullagh 450

Mr & Mrs S C McDermid 450

Mr G McDowell

Mr & Mrs R S McDowell 450

Mr & Mrs T J McDowell 450

Mr & Mrs H C S McLean 450

Mr M P McPhail & Ms J A Saville 450

Mr & Mrs J Miall

Mr & Mrs K Middlemass

Mr & Mrs D P Miell 450

Mr G Miller 450

Mr & Mrs J Mills

Mr N Mishin & Dr K Rubina 450

Mr J F Mistry & Mrs J D Cambatta-Mistry 450

Mr T Mitchell & Ms T L Falk-Mitchell 450

Mr S Moon & Mrs S Minjung 450

Mr J I Moon & Mrs J Park 450

Mr & Mrs D G Morgan

Mrs M T Morgan

Mr & Mrs C E S Morrison 450

Mr & Mrs A S W Mould

Mr A Mugica

Mr A A Müller & Mrs S L Foster 450

Mr & Mrs N Munro-Peebles

Mr J R Murray

Mr K Myers & Mrs C Harrington

Mr & Ms A Nanda

Mr R D Nelson

Mr & Mrs P J G Newman

Mr & Mrs W Nsouli

Mr & Mrs O Obatoyinbo 450

Mr & Mrs M O’Brien 450

Mrs K O’Callaghan 450

Mr & Mrs J A Odofin 450

Mr & Mrs A O Odunsi 450

Mr & Mrs R J Oelhafen 450

Mr & Mrs N O’Hara

Mr & Mrs A Ojomo 450

Mr & Mrs O J Olaigbe 450

Mr D L Older & Mrs C R Gut 450

Mr & Mrs J M Olugbodi

Dr A Ordonez Espana & Dr A M Velasco Bolanos

Mr & Mrs U Orji 450

Dr E Otuseso 450

Dr & Mrs C Owens 450

Mr & Mrs A M Oyegade 450

Mr & Mrs P Paintal 450

Mr U Palazzo & Mrs G Tancredi-Palazzo 450

Mr D Pan & Mrs Y Cheng 450

Mr H Pang & Ms K Y K Leung 450

Mr & Mrs J B G Parry-George 450

Dr C Pase 450

Mr & Mrs A Patel

Mr & Mrs T J Paton-Smith

Mr & Mrs M A Pearce

Mr J J H Pedersen & Ms J Tsar 450

Mrs A M Pelham Green

Viscount & Viscountess Petersham 450

Mr & Mrs L R L Phillips 450

Mr & Mrs R C D Phillips

Mr & Mrs N Piranditta

Mr F Polese 450

Dr R Ponniah & Dr R Menon-Ponniah 450

Mr & Mrs A D Ponniah 450

Mr & Mrs N Porter 450

Mr & Mrs I H F Potter 450

Mr & Mrs R C Powell

Mr S R Pringle 450

Mrs M Procter 450

Mr A R Procter 450

Mr & Mrs J Puri 450

Mr & Mrs V Puri 450

Mr & Mrs S V O Quist 450

Mr & Mrs M Rahman

Mr & Mrs S Raithatha 450

Mr & Mrs T Ramus 450

Mr U U Rashid & Ms T M U Rehman 450

Mrs F Redknapp 450

B A P Regnard-Weinrabe 450

Mr & Mrs B J Reid 450

Mr & Mrs R S Revill 450

Mr & Mrs C M Rezek 450

Mr D Riegals

Mr & Mrs T W Riddell-Webster 450

Mr & Mrs A W Riddick 450

Mr G H Ridley & Mrs J C Bone-Ridley 450

Mr & Mrs J G Rienow

Mr & Mrs M T Robinson

Mrs C Robu & Mr M Malaure 450

Ms C Rodriquez

Mr C E Rogberg & Dr A F H Welin

Mr W P Rollason & Ms C E Artis 450

Mr & Mrs I A J Ross 450

Mr & Mrs S R C Rowntree 450

Ms A Rudman & Mr D Shorthouse

Mr D Safronov & Mr M Madden 450

Mr & Mrs L Samonas

Mr & Mrs S Santhamoorthy 450

Baron & Baroness P C W Schell 450

Mr & Mrs G M Scott 450

Mr & Mrs C Selvan 450

Mr & Mrs R Sethi

Mr & Mrs J Shanahan

Mrs V S Sharron 450

Mr M Sheng & Mrs X Wang 450

Mr & Mrs A V Sheopuri

Dr C Shi & Dr Y Tao 450

Mrs J Shin 450

Mr & Mrs W Shirvell 450

Mr D Shorthouse & Ms A Rudman 450

Mr & Mrs D Shortt 450

Mr & Mrs H T Simpson

Sir Kevin Smith CBE

Mrs Y Smith 450

Mr D Smith & Ms L Letcher 450

Mr N Smith

Mr & Mrs P R G Smith 450

Mr & Mrs A C W Snow 450

Mr B So & Ms D Li 450

Mr & Mrs S S Sohal 450

Mr X Song & Ms Y Ding

Mr F Song & Mrs X Xu 450

Dr J H Song & Dr S K Oh 450

Mr T Sotir & Ms T Cleminshaw 450

Mr & Mrs A Soyemi 450

Mr & Mrs J A Stabb

Mr & Mrs G S Storey

Mr & Mrs E A Strange 450

Mr & Mrs B Stratton 450

Mr & Mrs O M Stratton 450

Miss M H Stubinski 450

Mr & Dr J Sule 450

Dr S Sumathipala & Ms I Bourne 450

Mr L Sun & Mrs F Huang 450

Mr & Mrs R St. J B Sutherland 450

Mr & Mrs P D Tack

Chief & Mrs M Taiga 450

Mr & Mrs D A G Tait 450

Mr & Mrs S E J Tallis 450

Mr Y Tang & Mrs L Li

Mr H Tang & Mrs Q Ai 450

Mr & Mrs J L Tanner

Mr F H Tarar 450

Mr & Mrs A J Tasker 450

Mrs M Tawfik 450

Mr D Taylor 450

Mr & Mrs S J Taylor 450

Mr & Mrs V J Thayil 450

Mr & Mrs J P B Thompson 450

Mr & Mrs R S Timblo 450

Mr P J Timlin & Ms D W Muchiri 450

Mr & Mrs A B Treherne Pollock 450

Mr C P Trott & Ms A C E Dismont Trott 450

Mr & Mrs L Trudel 450

Mr & Mrs M Tung 450

Mr & Mrs G M Turner

Mr J C Tyacke & Dr K B Traffa-Tyacke 450

Mr & Mrs N Ul-Ghani

Mr & Mrs A Unuigbe 450

Mr C Van Aeken & Mrs K De Wulf 450

Mr J Van den Berghe & Mrs E Callens

Mr S R Veluvali & Mrs C Sharma

Mr W A C Verbraak & Mrs K Host-Verbraak 450

Mr & Mrs W J Von Kumberg 450

Mr B J J Walker 450

Mr & Mrs G C Walsh 450

Mr & Mrs M C Walton 450

Mr G S G Wan & Ms M Fu 450

Mr H Wang & Mrs S Xi 450

Ms N Ware

Mr & Mrs H G Watson 450

Mr & Mrs A P Webster 450

Mrs S L S Whiddington

Mr & Mrs H J Wickham 450

Mr & Mrs R Wijeratne 450

Mr W Willwong & Dr R Oliver-Willwong

Mr & Mrs G M Winters

Mr M Wiszniewski & Mrs I Minkiewicz 450

Mr N C Wong & Ms P A Mercer 450

Mr & Mrs A C C Wong 450

Mr X Xiang & Ms N Fang 450

Mr J M Xu & Mrs Y Hong

Mr H Yang & Mrs J Lin 450

Mr P Yang & Mrs W Jia 450

Dato Sri Yap & Datin Sri Ting 450

Mr O Yaroslavskyi & Mrs M Yaroslavska 450

Mr H P Yeo & Ms W Q Chen 450

Tan Sri Sir Francis Yeoh

Mr R Yeung 450

Mr T C L Yip & Ms C K M Cheung 450

Mr & Mrs K Young 450

Mr & Mrs C Zampa 450

Mr B Zhang & Mrs Y Wu

Governors, staff and former staff

Mr J A Ansbro

Ms L S A Ashe 450

Dr T M Bailey 450

Dr S Barke 450

Mrs K Barnes 450

I D S Beer 450

Mrs J R Bellringer 450

Mrs J Benwell-Froggatt 450

Mr P J Bieneman 450

Mrs M S Brounger 450

Mr D L Collins 450

Mrs J Cooper 450

Dr C M C Crowe 450

Miss L de Guzman 450

Mr P Donlevey 450

Dr D J Earl 450

Mr D Egan 450

Mr D G Emkes 450

Mr P J Evans 450

Mrs S L Fellows 450

Mrs K A Fletcher 450

Mr E J H Gould 450

Mr J P B Hall 450

Miss D Hannaway 450

Dr F G Hardy

Dr S A Harrison 450

Mr J B Hawkins 450

Miss E M Hetherington 450

Mr E W Higgins 450

Mr P D Hunter 450

Mr I J H Hutchinson 450

Mr H K Johnson 450

Mr S Jones 450

Mr W M A Land 450

Dr S-C Lim 450

Mr N J Marchant 450

Mr J Marsden 450

Mrs C E Marshall 450

Mr J P Murrin 450

Ms W Nichols

Mrs E O’Connor 450

Dr C Owens 450

Dr A T R P Pateman 450

Dr G Patterson 450

Mr N Porter 450

The Rev’d J E Power 450

Miss S E Price 450

Mr M Ramprakash MBE 450

Mr J R Reed 450

Mr M J M Ridgway 450

Mr D Rimmer 450

Mr T Sakai 450

Mrs C I Sampson 450

Ms N T Sarsfield 450

Mr G Sharp 450

Mr B J D Shaw 450

Mrs C G Shaw 450

Mr R C J Shaw 450

Mr N A Shryane MBE 450

Mrs P R Shryane 450

Ms M Smith 450

Mrs N Till

Rev N Tivey

Mr M J Tremlett 450

Mrs R M Tremlett 450

Mrs N A Walker 450

Ms L Worton 450

Mr W G H Young 450

Trusts, Foundations & Companies

3D Print UK

ANS Group Ltd

ASK Charitable Trust

Bayfield Charitable Trust

Bitesize Luxury

Bristol Cellars

Catherine Matthews Interiors

Cazenove Capital Management Limited

Col W H Whitbread Trust

Cripps Pemberton Greenish

David Williams-Ellis

David Yarrow Photography

E.J. Churchill

FCR Ludlam Ltd

Goldman Sachs Gives

Hamish Mackie Sculpture

Harrow School Golf Society

Hoopers Carpets

Ian Robert Kumar MacLaren 1999 Settlement

Jam Sandwich

Joseph Warren Foundation

Keystone Tutors

KogoPAY Group

Merrill Lynch

Morgan Stanley

Mosimann’s

Orbis Investment

Peter Beckwith Harrow Trust

PKF Littlejohn

Pol Roger

Reignwood Investment UK Ltd

Rivington Street Studios

Savills

Standard Chartered

Tennis and Rackets Association

The A G Leventis Foundation

The Albert van den Bergh Charitable Trust

The British Schools and Universities Foundation

The Constance Travis Charitable Trust

The Doughty Family Foundation

The Giving Force Foundation

The Lourie Foundation

The Macquerie Group

The Safaris of Graham Jones

The Saint Paul Foundation

The Warwick Square Watermark Foundation

The Zetland Charitable Trust

Wealmoor Limited

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 refurbishments of the School estate. Some of our areas of operation include filming and photoshoots, weddings and events, the hire of sports facilities, public and private tours, retail and education including English language summer camps.

HSEL is responsible for the operation of the School’s Fitness Club as a ‘dual-use’ facility, enabling over 1,200 local members and staff to use the swimming pool, fitness gyms, classes and sports hall, as well as hiring out the School’s other sporting facilities. During the year we welcomed Saracens men’s and women’s teams, Manchester United women’s team including many of the England Lionesses, England Athletics, The London Irish Academy and numerous other local community sports clubs and camps.

The Events and Locations Team hosted an array of successful events, filming and photoshoots. ITV’s Endeavour filmed twice at the School, a documentary on Winston Churchill was recorded, and World Rugby filmed on our athletics track and at the Fitness Club. There were high-profile photoshoots for fashion brands including Ralph Lauren, as well as numerous bridal and engagement photoshoots using the School as a backdrop.

The School’s four licensed civil wedding venues, varying in capacity from five to 550 people, saw over 20 weddings during the year. We also ran popular wreathmaking workshops in the Field House Club in the run up to Christmas, and hosted awards ceremonies for the Metropolitan Police and many other private parties and events, including a memorable duckthemed first birthday party in the Alcock Pavilion in August.

Public and private tours of the School proved increasingly popular, including a special-interest Winston Churchill tour.

We welcomed 198 international students from 26 countries in July and August, when

Harrow School Short Courses ran, for the first time since the COVID-19 pandemic, at Harrow and Heathfield Schools. The residential courses included high-quality English language lessons and fun activities and excursions. We also offered complimentary places to five refugee students from Ukraine and ran a course for the Boston Consulting Group who did not have English lessons.

Young Athlete Camp, Saracens, Philomel, Independent Schools Football Association, Camp Beaumont, Developing Goalkeepers UK, Pilgrims and KKCL successfully ran their courses and camps at the School, and Susan Daughtry Education held mock 11+ exams.

HSSC Online went from strength to

strength, teaching over 1,300 English lessons across the year. We continued to provide administrative and logistic support to the Lumina university programme, assisting students with higher-education support. Harrow School Online released its first ever A-level results with 85% of pupils achieving A*–A and 98% of pupils achieving A*–B.

To mark the 450th anniversary of the School, a special range of merchandise was developed and sold in the School’s Hill Shop. Items included Harrow hat cufflinks, water bottles, umbrellas, stress balls, the Harrow 450 | A Photographic Celebration of Harrow School book and a beautiful handmade bone china cachepot.

– Harry Ogden, Business Director

Harrow hat cufflinks

The School’s licensed wedding venues hosted over 20 weddings

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Gohil Photography

HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOLS LTD

Harrow International Schools Limited (HISL) is the entity of John Lyon’s Foundation that sub-licences Harrow School’s brand for use by licensed schools in return for a fee. Monies generated from the Harrow-branded licensed schools are largely used to provide places at Harrow School and John Lyon for pupils who need financial support.

Widening access to Harrow School and John Lyon by increasing bursary funding, supporting outreach projects and making a Harrow education available to more children internationally are the drivers behind the desire to establish Harrowbranded schools in different parts of the world.

HISL has an executive team to manage its day-to-day operations, including an oversight team, the primary function of which is to report to the HISL board and the Foundation Governors on the

performance of the licensed schools and their compliance with their licences. The oversight team undertakes physical or virtual visits to every school at least twice a year. The framework for all reviews is the Harrow Standards, which outline HISL’s expectations of Harrow-branded schools in their delivery of the core elements of a Harrow education in their local environment. The Harrow Standards help to differentiate Harrow-branded schools from their local competitors and are designed to support them in external

third-party inspection and accreditation.

Harrow School has developed increasingly strong links with the Harrowbranded licensed schools and collaboration is increasing all the time. Among other things, Harrow School provides support for teacher recruitment and senior-staff induction (including at Harrow School itself), continuing professional development and the sharing of best practice between staff, and opportunities for interaction between pupils. Chris Barry is the International Schools’ Liaison at Harrow.

AISL HARROW SCHOOLS

Since the first Harrow-branded international school opened in Bangkok in 1998, HISL has entered into further agreements with its founding partner, Asia International School Limited (AISL), which is based in Hong Kong. Further Harrow International Schools have been established in Beijing (2006), Hong Kong (2012), Shanghai (2016), Shenzhen (2020), Haikou (2020), and Appi in Japan (2022). The last five years or so have seen a significant step change in the size and scale of the group of AISL Harrow Schools, with the opening of the more recently conceived Harrow Innovation Leadership Academies

and Harrow Little Lions (Early Years Centres), which are located in China and may enrol Chinese nationals.

With the exception of Harrow International School Appi, all AISL Harrow Schools offer an all-through co-education from early years to A-level. There are currently 11 AISL Harrow Schools across Thailand, Hong Kong, China and Japan, with over 7,000 students being educated, taught and cared for by nearly 2,000 staff.

Some of the AISL Harrow International Schools are very well established, with Harrow International School Bangkok approaching its 25th anniversary in 2023 and Harrow International School Hong Kong having just celebrated its tenth

anniversary. Despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic, the last two years have brought the addition of six new AISL Harrow Schools, predominantly around the Greater Bay area in Southern China, with a Harrow International School opening in Shenzhen and a Harrow Innovation Leadership Academy in Zhuhai, as well as a Harrow International School and Harrow Innovation Leadership Academy on the island of Haikou. Other Harrow Innovation Leadership Academies have also opened in Nanning and Chongqing. These schools are filling from the bottom up, with most children currently in Early Years and the primary stages of their education.

Most recently, in August 2022, AISL Harrow Schools expanded to Japan with the opening of Harrow International School Appi. Set among the mountains of Iwate Prefecture, Harrow Appi is the first full-boarding school in the group, catering for students aged 11 to 18 (Years 7 to 13). As a full-boarding school, it arguably most closely mirrors the experience of studying at Harrow School in the UK. Although the school is only months old, the first cohort of students have already been making the most of their mountain location with weekend camps and expeditions.

As we undertake our rigorous programme of oversight, we are delighted to see the students as AISL Harrow Schools flourishing. Despite some long periods of pandemic-induced school closures and

Harrow International School Appi, Japan

remote learning, summer 2022 saw those Harrow International Schools with public-examination-aged students – in Bangkok, Beijing, Hong Kong and Shanghai – achieve another very strong set of public examination results, with Harrow International School Shanghai achieving 79% A/A* at A-level, and the schools in Beijing and Bangkok both achieving their best-ever A-level results with 75% A/A* and 69% A/A* respectively. Harrow Hong Kong achieved another set of outstanding results with 75% A/A* and 85% A* at IGCSE.

It was also another excellent year for university acceptances, with a more than two-fold increase in students securing Oxbridge places compared to 2021, and a three-fold increase in students attending Ivy League universities relative to 2021, including the first entrant to Harvard. There was a 12.5% increase in students gaining places at world top-ten universities.

AMITY HARROW SCHOOLS

In September 2021, HISL was delighted to announce a new international schools’ partnership with Amity Education Group, which will establish four Harrow International Schools in India and another in New York State, USA.

Amity is an India-based educational foundation that owns and operates 25 schools and ten universities across India and in 13 other countries, educating over 175,000 students. These highly ranked institutions are known for their academic rigour and holistic approach to character development. During our negotiations, we were delighted to find that Amity’s approach to educational excellence matched Harrow School's own, with its focus on blending tradition with modernity.

The first of the Amity Harrow Schools is currently under construction in Bengaluru (formerly Bangalore), India, and is planned to open in September 2023 within a purpose-built 60-acre campus in Devanahalli, close to the international airport. Harrow International School Bengaluru will initially offer students aged 11 to 18 an education based on the National Curriculum for England. The school will be coeducational and offer both day and boarding places. Three other Harrow International Schools in India will follow.

Harrow International School New York will be located in a stunning 170-acre campus in Oakdale, Long Island – 60 miles

from New York. The school site, which in the past has housed a secondary school and a university campus, is undergoing a complete refurbishment. The school will develop an innovative, bespoke curriculum to meet the needs of its students and it will also be coeducational and offer both day and boarding places.

– Mel Mrowiec, Chairman, Harrow International Schools Limited

Chris Barry, International Schools Liaison (right), with Andrew Leale, Headmaster of Harrow International School Bengaluru

JOHN LYON SCHOOL

The 2021/22 school year was one of significant change for John Lyon. We became Harrow’s only coeducational school, as we welcomed girls into Year 7 for the first time in the school’s 145-year history. In addition, with the amalgamation of John Lyon Senior and Quainton Hall Prep, we became an all-through school offering 3–18 education to families on the Hill, around Harrow and from further afield.

Numerous celebrations took place during the year to mark John Lyon’s 145th anniversary, and concluded with a Values Day event. This was a poignant occasion, as the whole school community came together as one, from nursery to senior school, to celebrate the school’s core values and all that is amazing about the wonderful community that is John Lyon.

There was great emphasis on sustainability, with a focus on reducing our carbon and paper footprint. For the Queen’s Platinum Jubilee, we planted over 100 saplings on our estate in support of the Queen’s Green Canopy initiative. Notably, Sixth Form pupils took part in and won the Harrow Family of Schools sustainability competition. Building on this success, we embarked on a packed timetable of projects including pupils attending a mock COP26 conference, reducing our paper-based communication, plate waste, and more.

Talks on the Hill, Excellence Talks and TEDx talks returned. Pupils heard from several high-profile speakers on themes covering the community and environment, regeneration, world events and politics. The Patani Lecture Series, enabled by a generous donation and aimed at enthusing aspiring science pupils, was established. At the inaugural lecture, Professor Hugh Montgomery OBE of University College London shared his experiences as an intensive care doctor during the pandemic.

From termly Solos concerts to collaborations with the Royal Academy of Music and London Chamber Orchestra and House singing competitions, pupils enjoyed a robust programme of music events. After the hiatus of the pandemic, productions of Oliver! and Shakespeare’s The Tempest were delivered by our Drama teams, live to packed audiences.

STEAM provision grew as Design & Technology was added to the GCSE offering. A group of Year 9 STEAM pupils took part in the National VEX IQ robotics competition, finishing in a respectable sixth place and collecting an innovation award.

The introduction of girls led to an increase in our sport provision and the girls integrated remarkably into sport life, playing across both girls-only and mixed teams. Overall, we saw tremendous success in sport. Our cricketers reached the Middlesex Under-15 and T20 Senior Cups, while our tennis stars played many competitive LTA fixtures, and our archers retained the Silver Arrow trophy in a nail-bitingly close victory against Harrow School. It was the most successful year for the John Lyon football programme, with pupils achieving positive results in over 55% of all matches played. In hockey, we entered

our first indoor competition and won the Under-14 County Cup.

Pupils were rewarded for their hard work with tremendous GCSE results, enabling them to take up their places in our Sixth Form.

Lyonians made their way around the country to the UK’s top universities to study psychology, engineering, politics, computer science, economics and music after brilliant A-level results. It was encouraging to learn that, while the national picture showed a decline in results, John Lyon continued to see excellent results across the board. The University of Southampton, Warwick, Kings College London, the London School of Economics and University of Bristol were among the leavers’ destinations.

– Katherine Haynes, Head

A group of Year 9 STEAM pupils took part in the National VEX IQ robotics competition

Girls joined the school for the first time in its 145-year history

Private Events At Harrow School

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SPECIAL OFFER: State ‘Harrow Record’ when you book to receive a complimentary Harrow School tour guide to attend your event. Our experienced tour guides can offer pre-dinner entertainment or deliver a welcome address on the history of the School to set the scene for your guests.

JOHN LYON’S CHARITY

As much as 2021/22 was a celebration for John Lyon’s Charity (JLC), it is important to also mention the previous two years.

COVID-19 caused a devastating impact on the children and young people’s (CYP) sector in the JLC’s Beneficial Area. It exacerbated the difficulties the sector was already facing following the numerous funding cuts over the past decade, threatening to sweep away even the strongest organisations. As a response, we ring-fenced an additional £22 million from our endowment to be spent over six years to help protect the CYP sector in our Beneficial Area. This funding is in addition to JLC’s ongoing annual grant-giving of around £12 million per year. It was a hard two years, filled with unprecedented challenges and new strategies to ensure the CYP sector survives a post-Covid world.

Despite the many challenges, it was important for John Lyon’s Charity to

recognise a very important landmark: 30 years of grant-giving. In November 2021, it was 30 years since the Order to establish John Lyon’s Charity was adopted and signed by our Trustee. By the end of our fiscal year in March 2022, we committed to grant just shy of £200 million to over 1,800 organisations: £100 million of that will have been granted in the previous five years alone. To celebrate 30 years of grant-giving, we held a special event at the V&A Museum, an institution we have had a longstanding relationship with since JLC’s inception. The event included inspiring speeches and performances from groups we have funded and, most importantly, we hosted a variety of grantees whom we had supported over the 30 years.

To mark the beginning of our anniversary celebrations, we ran a Throwback Thirty

campaign, which looked back over the past 30 years at the charities we have supported, including some of those that gained their first funding from JLC. We also had the opportunity to celebrate our 30th anniversary on Sky News. CEO of JLC, Lynne Guyton, spoke to Kay Burley on her Breakfast Show to highlight the charity’s many successes.

To further mark the occasion, the charity sent its furry representative – John the Lyon – to celebrate with youth groups across north and west London. John the Lyon surprised groups who benefited from the JLC’s School Holiday Activity Fund (SHAF). In the past, this fund has enabled trips to the beach, theme parks and theatre outings to young people, some of whom have never experienced these activities before.

– Lynne Guyton, CEO

JLC’s furry representative, John the Lyon, commemorated the charity’s 30-year anniversary with youth groups across north and west London

CEO Lynne Guyton on Kay Burley’s Breakfast Show

450 Society Join the

The 450 Society recognises those supporting the Harrow 450 campaign

It is our ambition to attract 4,500 members by 2025. There are different tiers of membership: involvement is just as important as value.

All members will receive a special Harrow 450 anniversary commemorative lapel pin and have their name displayed on the virtual LCD in the Science Schools when the new building opens.

To find out more or join today visit harrowschool.org.uk/450-Society