Harrow Record 2021-22

HARROW RECORD 2020–21

Reports from 2020–21 plus news and views from the Hill

02 News 08 Academic 22 Societies 34 The Arts 60 Leadership and Service 72 Sport 88 Heritage 98 Listings 106 Foundation Family 128 Last Word

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FROM THE HEAD MASTER Undeterred by the continuing constraints of life with Covid, boys and staff displayed an extraordinary energy and vibrancy during 2020–21, and I was thrilled at the sheer appetite across every area of the School for endeavour, for service, for excellence and for personal challenge.

The enormous amount of activity undertaken and the range and depth of achievement over the year was inspiring.

I hope you enjoy reading about the many society meetings, lectures, concerts and exhibitions that took place – online and in real life. Along with the importance of continuing to learn, maintaining our sense of community was vital, and the eclectic happenings in our virtual world, I believe, are testament to our success in remaining “together” during a period when we were often apart.

We never lose sight of those whose lives have been made more difficult by the continuing pandemic and, during the course of the year, we re-doubled our efforts to support those in our local community who needed extra help. Shaftesbury Enterprise and your generosity made a significant difference to so many young people across the borough and more widely; the impact of that generosity is detailed in the pages of this magazine.

I am proud of your sons’ response to learning in what became an alien world. We have always been a strong community on the Hill but, in a world where togetherness suddenly became a challenge, we all realised just how fortunate we are to be Harrovians and part of the Harrow Family.

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.

Fully supported by HDT’s Plan 450.

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HARROW 450: BUILDING BEGINS

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n February 2021, the Head Master, Alastair Land, turned over the first spade of earth for the Harrow 450 estate development project. It was a significant moment that had been seven years in the planning.

The vision of physical transformation of the eastern side of the School estate was largely that of Head Master Jim Hawkins (2011–18). He proposed a plan in which the academic and other major School buildings would be situated around a green space reminiscent of an Oxbridge quad that would become the heart of the School.

The plan was, in part, a response to the necessity of replacing the gradually failing Sports Centre building and a desire to create modern, fit-for-purpose accommodation for Biology and Chemistry, whose Victorian buildings were not designed with today’s teaching requirements or health and safety standards in mind. It was also a way of moving boys off the increasingly busy High Street.

After much consultation, the first plans proposed also included a larger Ryan Theatre foyer, a new Drama Studio, improved rackets and fives courts, a new concert hall, a new Admissions centre and a one-way system for the roads around the Hill. The lengthy and complex planning process, and restrictions on building on the Hill, meant that a number of these projects had eventually to be set aside, and it was not until 2020 that permission was finally granted by the High Court for the construction of a new Sports Centre and science building.

In the meantime, however, professional surveys had revealed that the Shepherd

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Churchill Hall was in need of significant repair and improvement. When the building was constructed in the 1970s, boys were served at their tables by dining hall staff rather than in the self-service cafeteria style that currently operates.

The kitchens were also designed for this different type of service, and for almost 100 fewer boys. The power supplies to the building were also revealed to be woefully inadequate, and the turfed flat roof outside the Shepherd Churchill Room had intractable problems with rainwater ingress.

The significant defects of the Shepherd Churchill Hall meant that it became the top priority in the building plan. In view of this, the construction logistics plan was revised, so that work would start at the Shepherd Churchill Hall, physically at the highest point of the planned projects, leaving the Sports Centre, at the lowest point, until last.

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To enable these major projects, a new access road for plant and machinery had first to be built, and it was for this that the first turf was turned in the spring of 2021.

By September 2021, the new access road from the Watford Road near Northwick Park Hospital to the back of the Shepherd Churchill had been constructed, and the first steps towards creating the foundations for the science building had begun.

Creation of the new road and preparing the site for the new buildings involved extensive excavation work. Although this necessitated the felling of several trees, the School has committed to replacing every tree removed with three new ones. Trees of particular interest, and those given by donors, will be replaced with another of the same species or, where this is not possible, with one of the most suitable similar type. The School will also be creating a new pinetum in the field below Lyon’s, which will feature native trees and specimens from other parts of the world.

Alongside these major projects, several others that were among the original suggestions have already been undertaken; the School now has a Drama Studio and refurbished rackets and fives courts, and a new Centre for Teaching, Learning, AI and Cognitive Studies is also taking shape in Old Schools.

The Shepherd Churchill Hall and science building projects are due to be completed in 2023, and the Sports Centre by 2025 – 12 years after the plans were first conceived.

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s the Covid pandemic continued to restrict large gatherings, some of the principal fixtures in the School calendar underwent something of a transformation.

Founder’s Day moved entirely online.

For the 2021 celebrations, members of The Guild created a montage of photographs of Founder’s Day Harrow football matches from the past, recorded music and drama excerpts, and created an exciting online art exhibition, all topped off with a medley of Harrow Songs.

Speech Day, too, had to be adapted to Covid conditions. Although it took place at the end of June, rather than on the traditional Saturday before May half-term, and without any parents in attendance, Prizes were presented to winners in Speech Room, Bill took place in Bill Yard as usual, and boys were able to visit the Speech Day art exhibitions. The Pipe Band and Byron Consort gave performances outside the War Memorial Building and several tennis and cricket matches took place.

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n September 2020, Harrow welcomed the first recipients of a new bursary initiative, Churchill Places. The aim of this new bursary scheme is to find boys who, in their own way, demonstrate the characteristics of personal courage, wide-ranging thinking and a global outlook, and who may one day change the world for the better. Over the next five years, the Harrow Development Trust aims to raise £10 million to expand the number of Churchill Places awarded every year. These places will be offered to boys joining Harrow either in the Sixth Form or in Year 9, identifying some candidates when they are in Year 6 and seeing them through two years of prep school before coming to Harrow.

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VALETE CHARLES FARRAR-BELL

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harles Farrar-Bell (CJFB) (Moretons 19721) was for 29 years a distinguished member of the Mathematics Department. Son of OH Michael FarrarBell (19252), he was the fourth generation of his family in Moretons. Sons Henry (20023) and Johnny (20043), duly followed. His forebears designed much of the stained glass around the School.

On leaving Harrow, Charles read Engineering Science at Worcester College, Oxford, and then obtained a PGCE. He taught at Bradfield College for 11 years, before returning to the Hill in 1992.

Aside from teaching Maths, he was House Master of The Knoll, Master-inCharge of Cross Country, a cornerstone of athletics, and a touchstone for many as one of the convenors of Flambards. A pioneer and advocate for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award, his Gold Award expeditions to the Cairngorms will be remembered with fondness. He and his wife, Sarah, have now set up home in north Norfolk.

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hris Mann (CDLM) became a beak at Harrow in 2002, having started his career as a teacher of Biology at Epsom College. During his years at Harrow, he offered invaluable advice to generations of Harrovians seeking a career in medicine.

He was also a long-serving Long Ducker organiser, Assistant House Master in The Head Master’s, a prominent rugby coach, Master-in-Charge of many international expeditions, an athletics and cross-country instructor, and Organisation Master, responsible for arranging invigilation timetables and cover for lessons. Most recently, Harrow football prospered under his care, with three XIs being fielded on a typical weekend. His annual Harrow football tours will be remembered by many a grateful Upper Sixth Former.

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artin Roberts (MR) grew up in Derby and studied at the University of Hull.

He was a Post-Doc at the University of Nottingham and at Temple University in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. He was Head of Physics and Head of Science at Uppingham before joining the Physics Department at Harrow in 2001. He extended the Engineering Education Scheme at Harrow to include many more boys per year, and oversaw at least 40 projects: most of them developed to undergraduate level and all of them achieving CREST Gold Awards. Along with Matt Glossop, he introduced an advanced Physics course, giving boys a

taste of university study and exposing them to exciting but challenging topics such as quantum mechanics in a far more rigorous way than in A level Physics. He oversaw the Da Vinci Society, the School’s engineering society, and brought many distinguished speakers to the School. Outside the Physics Department, MR was for many years Master-in-Charge of Marmots climbing club. He was also a talented bass player and jazz pianist and was a regular fixture with the Big Band and the Orchestra.

EXAMINATION RESULTS AND UNIVERSITY DESTINATIONS

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n 2021, for the third consecutive year, the percentage of grade 9s at GCSE was over 40% of entries, with the percentage of grades at 9–8 being well over threequarters of entries. Thirty-six boys achieved ten or more grade 9s, with 57 boys acquiring nine or more grade 9s.

At A level, over two-thirds of boys achieved A*–A. Seven boys obtained five or

more A* grades and 44 boys were awarded three or more A* grades.

Harrovians obtained places at six of the world’s top ten universities. Twenty-seven boys have taken up places at North American universities including Harvard, Yale, Brown, UChicago and NYU, and Harrovians have been offered places at five Ivy League schools.

2021 leavers with Head Master Jim Hawkins at the start of their Shell year in 2016

Nearly a third of Harrovians have places at one of the QS world top 20 universities including UCL, Imperial and the University of Pennsylvania, with over 65% taking places at one of the QS world top 100 universities such as Durham, LSE and St Andrews, and Northwestern, UC Berkeley and NYU in the US.

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department has worked well on a number of projects across the estate, including the start of some huge projects that will take place over the course of the next few years.

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Completion of extension works to provide new accommodation for boys and extra common space.

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The construction of an access road to enable the refurbishment of the Shepherd Churchill Dining Hall and the construction of the new science and sports buildings.

The road will take construction traffic away from the main roads to help mitigate any risks during the large-scale projects.

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Conversion of 3 High Street to become the Senior Management Team offices, creating office and meeting space at the centre of the Hill.

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Completion of phase one of the extension to provide new accommodation for the Assistant House Master and Matron, and new common space for the House. The next phase will take place over 2021–22 and will involve the refurbishment of the vacated staff accommodation to become new rooms and common space for boys.

Improvements were also made to the multi-use games area.

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Phase 2 of repairs to the roof and redecoration of form rooms, including the installation of 7 RENDALLS solar panels to contribute to the School’s Refurbishment of the E Floor tosh. environmental sustainability programme.

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Conversion of one of the School’s commercial units for use by the School’s Shaftesbury Enterprise partner, Young Harrow Foundation.

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ACADEMIC OPPORTUNITY: WHAT DOES IT MEAN IN PRACTICE? Every school aspires to deliver academic opportunity, although there are inevitably different definitions of what the term means.

Opportunity is defined as a time or set of circumstances that makes it possible to do something; articulating and specifying exactly what we want to achieve, and for whom, is of paramount importance.

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s Harrow began to look forward to its 450th year, I reflected a great deal on the aims and aspirations of its founder John Lyon, and wondered what he would have thought if he were able to visit the School today. I am sure he would be baffled by the Microsoft Surface Books and the technological platforms, bewildered by virtual learning environments and the forthcoming artificial intelligence centre.

I suspect, though, he would be more likely to muse upon broader philosophical questions. Godliness and good learning were his principal aims and he bequeathed half of his estate for the founding of what became known as the Free Grammar School of John Lyon. In other words, the very foundational purpose of the School was to provide opportunity, especially to those who could not otherwise afford it.

Over recent years, increased emphasis has been placed on widening access to the School and seeking to create the circumstances that make it possible for boys to attend who might not otherwise be able to do so. The pandemic exacerbated a number of the structural, societal and familial challenges that many adolescents face; for countless students, there was no access to technology, support for learning was minimal, and domestic circumstances made it almost impossible for educational progress to be achieved. For such pupils,

their circumstances prevent them from achieving their full potential. Recognising the full extent of the challenges and disadvantage and ensuring that we all increase our awareness of these issues is the first step, but it is not sufficient by itself. Through the work of Shaftesbury Enterprise at Harrow School, we sought to support young people in a concrete way: to provide internet facilities, structured lessons and supporting resources. The growth and rapid development of these programmes was testament to the scope of the challenge and the size of the demand.

Opportunity ought to be life-changing and there could be few more transformative experiences than an immersive five years of life on the Hill as a member of a leading all-boys, full-boarding school. Considerable financial investment has been made in opening up a large number of fully funded places for boys whose circumstances prevent them from achieving their full

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potential. For many individuals, even those in the neighbouring boroughs, it might feel as if Harrow School is from another world with its quirky uniform, eccentric nomenclature and freshly mown lawns. The first time that I set foot in an independent school was at the age of 21 as part of my PGCE, having only ever heard of two independent schools (one of them was Harrow, for the record!) and could not believe that they had a Steinway grand piano. Had I been there ten years earlier at the age of 11 as part of an admissions process, I suspect that I would have been even more wowed, quite possibly to the point of being prohibitively intimidated.

Academic success comes in many forms and guises. It is often reduced to the percentages of grade 9 at GCSE and A* at A level. These are indubitably important and a valuable metric; qualifications are passports to the next phase of education or employment and should not be undermined. Yet invariably, these headlines reflect admissions processes as well as the quality of teaching and learning. A good admissions process must judge potential – it must gauge what qualities and abilities a candidate has that can be developed and can lead to future success and prospective usefulness to society. At Harrow, we have always sought to go beyond simple metrics and to be holistic in our approach, emphasising qualitative data as well as quantitative. A process that seeks to maximise opportunity is not blind to

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context but rather views each applicant within their unique context to measure their potential.

Intellectual curiosity and resilience can come in many forms; for some it might be overcoming algorithmic challenges in the designing of a new app, while for others it might be working out how to travel to school each day in a way that minimises interactions with drug dealers

or criminal gangs.

In Harrow’s 450th year, I am sure that John Lyon would approve of the changes that are taking place – the widening of access and the opening up of academic opportunities. It chimes with the vision that he had and the investment that he left behind to turn this vision into a reality.

– Michael Gray, Director of Studies, 2019-21

The Rayleigh Observatory was installed thanks to funding from the HDT.

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

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 Aum Amin (Elmfield), Max Morgan (Moretons), Henry Procter (Bradbys), Will Howitt (Lyon’s) and Aiden Hargraves (The Head Master’s) all achieving a gold medal.

Will Howitt, Neil Kumar (West Acre), Alex Yi (Druries), Aum Amin, Monty Behar-Sheehan (Bradbys), Henry Webster (Druries), Brandon Chang (Druries) and Julian Herschel (The Grove) started an exciting project linked with UCL astrophysicists involving modelling the interior of neutron stars. Aum Amin and Julian Herschel took part in the International Asteroid Search Campaign survey and processed eight data sets hunting for undiscovered asteroids.

Penn Behagg (Elmfield), Atticus Malley (The Head Master’s), Rohan Ragoowansi (Elmfield) and Aaron Patel (The Knoll) began an exciting project using the Rayleigh Observatory imaging equipment to chart asteroids. Harrovians also imaged the Sun using the dedicated Lunt Solar Telescope, which allows daytime imaging for astronomers.

Many boys and School staff visited the Observatory to view the partial solar eclipse in June 2021 safely through the dedicated solar telescope, and we held many open evenings for the whole School community.

– Chris Crowe, Head of Astronomy

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ne of the biggest challenges of lockdown was trying to teach the practical aspects of Biology remotely. We could video ourselves conducting experiments, but this was no substitute for boys grappling with the apparatus and handling the specimens themselves.

It is very important in Biology that students have a feel for the organisms they are studying and appreciate from first-hand experience the difficulties in collecting good data. It was therefore a great relief to be able to do practical work again at the start of the academic year even if what we could do was constrained by COVID-19 protocols.

Fortunately, the pandemic did not stop the competitions run by the Royal Society of Biology from going ahead. Many boys were keen to engage with these and were rewarded with some excellent

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results. In the Remove, 18 boys achieved gold awards in the Biology Challenge, beating the record of 14 golds in 2017. In the Biology Olympiad, three boys secured gold, including Lower Sixth Form boys James Pang (Druries) and Nicklas

Host-Verbraak (The Head Master’s). To prove this was no fluke, both boys went on to achieve gold in the Intermediate Biology Olympiad, a competition designed specifically for Year 12 students.

– Nick Keylock, Head of Biology

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young team of four Harrow chemists won the national finals of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Top of the Bench competition. Shells Rishaad Bhushan (The Grove) and Penn Behagg (Elmfield) joined Remove Henry Webster (Druries) and Fifth Former Aum Amin (Elmfield) to score full marks and beat 30 teams from across the country. The team had won their regional final in November 2019 after several rounds of questions to celebrate the 150th anniversary of the Periodic Table, but the final, which had been due to take place in March 2020, was postponed because of the Covid pandemic. Special mention should be made of Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) and Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) who were part of the team to win the regional heat but were then too old to continue in the postponed final.

Inspired by the challenge of lockdown learning, Dr Dean Holt introduced the Chemistry Race. Modelled on the C3L6 monthly challenges, participants could gain points each month for both the quality and speed of answers to a range of tricky questions.

Re-emerging from lockdown, beaks and technician teams worked hard to ensure laboratory work could continue, swiftly

adapting to film and recording experimental work for those studying remotely.

Moving the RSC Analyst competition into schools to overcome restrictions opened the competition to a much wider audience and 30 enthusiastic Lower Sixth chemists grappled with the identity of unknown samples around a fictional scenario.

In the C3L6 competition, Brandon Chang (Druries) ranked amongst the top 0.74% of over 7,000 candidates and received the elite Roentgenium certificate and an invitation to a residential camp at St Catherine’s College, Cambridge. Forty-seven Lower Sixth

Harrovians engaged with this challenging paper, winning 11 copper, 11 silver and eight gold awards. Henry Webster deserves particular mention for his gold, as he entered two years early as a Remove.

There was a strong set of results in the Chemistry Olympiad, with four of the nine gold awards won by boys below the Upper Sixth. Fourteen boys were awarded silver awards and 11 bronze.

The Senior Science Lecture was won by George Williams (Moretons) for his talk on pharmaceutical drugs.

– Christian Penhale, Head of Chemistry

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espite the difficulties of an Autumn term much restrained by Covid, the tradition of the Contio remained unbroken.

Head of School Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) delivered the Contio to a Speech Room attended by the Head Master, members of Druries and a few other invited guests. The event was streamed live to all the Houses and recorded for posterity. It should also be noted, unusually, that the Governors were not present because of Covid restrictions, and so the Head Master stepped in to deliver the responsio.

The Classics Department was able to proceed with the first Coutts Lecture in September 2020. We welcomed Professor Michael Scott of the University of Warwick, who delivered masterclasses on Herodotus and Delphi to the Shell boys, guided the Sixth Form through parts of Arrian’s Periplus, and discussed trade networks between the Greeks, Romans and Indians.

Speech Room, with social distancing, was full for his evening lecture on ‘A Global Ancient World’, in which he discussed the vast social and economic networks of the Greeks and Romans.

The annual Oxenham Latin and Greek Reading Competition ran in April this year, rather than in the Spring term. Winners in the Shell year were Robert Young (The Grove) and Jamie Jevons (Lyon’s); June Hyun (West Acre) won both the Latin and Greek categories in the Remove. Adam Ait El Caid

Professor Michael Scott gave the 2020 Coutts Lecture in Classics

won the Sixth Form prize for Latin recitation and Paddy Breeze (Elmfield) the Sixth Form Greek category.

The Plumptre Classics Prizes for Sixth Form were adjudicated by Dr Andrew Sillett from Oxford University. Toby de la Billiere (Elmfield) won best essay in Latin Literature, William Wauchope (The Knoll) won best essay in Greek Literature, Joseph Wragg (The Grove) won best essay in Ancient History, and Paddy Breeze won all

Contio was delivered only to members of Druries and invited guests

the rest. Arthur Pilkington (Rendalls) won the Lower Sixth Pember Prize for the best entries in both the Latin and Greek translation categories.

During the summer, the department ran the fifth annual Harrow Classics for All Teachers Conference, which on this occasion was online. More than 90 maintained-school teachers signed up for the various courses.

– Steven Kennedy, Head of Classics

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he appetite for Computer Science increased again, with a doubling in the number of undergraduate applications among our Sixth Form.

The Shells learnt Python fundamentals and applied algorithm design and programming principles to program Edison robots equipped with sensors to perform complex tasks. Extra computing courses were offered in both the Lower School and the Sixth Form. Several boys entered the international Informatics Olympiad, with commendations awarded across the board.

Boys in the Remove enjoyed creating their own unique projects in addition to their IGCSE studies, with projects as diverse as automatic motorised speedboats built using Arduino boards, 2D RPG games simulating life on the Hill, and VR environments uploaded to the Steam gaming platform. Two boys also entered the Government-run CyberFirst recruitment programme – a student scheme inspired and led by the National Cyber Security Centre that aims to support and prepare people for a career in cybersecurity.

The Art of Programming Elective was again among the most popular choices for

boys in the Lower Sixth. From gaming consoles and smartphones to tablets and PCs, boys learnt to develop their own games and software. By the end of the course, they programmed graphics-driven games that sometimes even included their

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t was a particularly challenging year for the department as it engaged in hybrid and online teaching, while adjusting practical elements of the subject in a Covid-friendly way. Aside from this, many boys continued to enjoy the academic nature of the subject while fostering independent projects to nurture their abilities.

Fifth Form boys took on projects such as motorbike café racers: stripping, repairing and rebuilding custom motorbikes to a high-end finish. A number of year groups, including boys in different parts of the world, created Rube Goldberg machines using everyday objects that formed basic machines to complete amusing tasks.

When boys were on the Hill, their creations ranged from high-end furniture with decorative inserts to fantastic 3D-printed Art Deco cities.

The department used the lockdown period to renovate and make improvements to the workshop and studios. These included improving workspaces, the introduction of more modern technology, and new machinery.

The improvements, which have been praised by the Design & Technology Association’s health and safety consultant, helped produce a safe and more enjoyable environment for boys to learn in.

Two teams of Harrovians entered the F1 in Schools competition this year, one in the professional class and another in the development class. This competition promotes teamwork, business strategy and design of a Formula 1 car that can travel 30m in under one second.

Harrovians were impressive in raising over £2,500 in sponsorship endorsements.

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own artificial intelligence. The supplemental course in scientific computing for Lower Sixth physicists proved useful preparation for university interviews and personal statements.

– Chris Crowe, Head of Computer Science

HDT sponsored the DTE entry to the Greenpower Racing competition.

teams of boys making model sports cars to see which could successfully navigate a track in the fastest time.

In anticipation of the national heats of the Greenpower Racing competition in September, the team spent the year refining and fine tuning their electric race car to make it more efficient and faster than its predecessor.

– Tom Knight, Head of Design, Technology & Engineering

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f the 800 submissions to the Durham University Economics Essay Competition, Issah Merchant (The Knoll) came second with an outstanding response to the question ‘Discuss the current environmental policy challenges with regards to the renewables sector’, which focused on the regulatory, technological and market challenges. This is something of an area of expertise for Issah, who joined Leon Kinaro (Moretons), Edward Blunt (Elmfield) and Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) in making an excellent submission to the IEA Budget Challenge. Their entry was well balanced and included measured but ambitious spending financed by a small wealth tax and more green taxes. Anton Shashenkov (The Knoll) wrote an essay for the Immerse competition on ‘Which Business leader has had the biggest impact on society in the last 50 years?’. He was

awarded a partial scholarship for his compelling essay on Mark Zuckerberg.

Adiran Inpan (Bradbys) was also commended in the John Locke Institute essay competition with his response to the question ‘Should we abolish the minimum wage?’, arguing that we should keep but amend it and make it more nuanced. Henry Oelhafen (Lyon’s) was highly commended in the New College of the Humanities essay competition.

During Expeditions Week, 35 boys visited Chelsea Football Club and completed some in-depth work on the ‘Business of football’. Deepan Sakthivel (Bradbys) was part of a group of students who set up their own trading competition across schools. Thirty teams entered from Harrow, with four teams making the top 20. Alvaro Talayero Osio (Newlands) led the winning team of Michael Chiimba, Joe Brankin-Frisby and

Boys visited Chelsea Football Club

Henry Pearce (all Newlands). Their total returns were $549,683. Rufus Williams and Adam Chambers (both Rendalls) were joint winners with Daniel Chang (Lyon’s) of the inaugural Lower Sixth Sustainability Competition with their work on sustainable uniform. Daniel’s project on vertical farming engaged multiple stakeholders and had a clear view of the costs and benefits.

– David Morgan, Head of Economics

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oys enthusiastically took part in our many competitions. Dr Spencer Bentley adjudicated the Learnt Poetry Competition, with the winning performances going to Rory Grant (Moretons), Jasper Smallwood (The Knoll) and Indi Abrams (The Grove). The Lady Bourchier Reading Competition took place online, with the novelist Ashley Hickson-Lovence joining. He gave the junior prize to Adiran Inpan (Bradbys) and the senior prize to William Wauchope (The Knoll). Mr Hickson-Lovence then returned to us in the Summer term to give a talk about his journey to becoming a novelist, beginning with an impressive performance poem about his experiences.

The Winston Churchill Essay Prize asked boys to consider whether statues deny the realities of the past. Boys approached the task in a wide range of ways, with the winning essays going to Matthew Chin (Bradbys), Ilyas Qureshi (The Park), June Hyun (West Acre) and Hans Patel (Newlands). The Jonathan Head Barrow Short Story prize was on the topic of food, which led to some real literary treats. The winning short stories were from Matthew Chin, Charlie Ni (Elmfield), Otto Marre (The Grove) and Aarav Tribhuvan (Moretons).

There was much poetry writing during the year, starting with an exciting 12-word poem competition on National Poetry Day, on the theme of vision. Joe McLean’s (Druries) winning poem captured a poignant nostalgia. The Augustus Fleet poetry writing competition was won by Chris Liu, Oscar Wickham (both The Head Master’s) and Otto Marre.

Joe McLean Grandpa Colossal giant, Filled with tales, Pouring wisdom, Suddenly, not the same Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) led an exciting new project with the Harrow Family of schools. Meeting regularly online, student editors from the Harrow International Schools, Harrow School Online and John Lyon put together an excellent anthology of creative writing, set around the theme of connections, illustrated with beautiful artwork from the different schools.

This year’s Jeremy Lemmon Prize for an essay on Shakespeare asked candidates to write essays on a friendship in one of

The Jonathan Head Barrow Prize was on the topic of food

Shakespeare’s plays, considering it in light of the line in Amiens’ song, ‘Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly’ (As You Like It). The prize was awarded to John Richardson (Elmfield) for an enjoyable and wide-ranging investigation of Hamlet and Horatio. The Lower School prize was awarded to Alexander Newman (Druries), who wrote on Marc Antony’s fireworks show (‘I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him’) in Julius Caesar.

– Lucy Ashe, Head of English

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he department welcomed boys from across the Sixth Form to Elective courses on the Geography of Disease and Cultural Geography and Anthropology, which saw boys able to conduct wideranging research extending beyond the confines of the curriculum. Boys delivered and attended a suite of lectures on their particular areas of research, welcomed speakers from Newcastle University and Wetherby Prep School, and attended a large number of public events with the Royal Geographical Society (RGS) and Geographical Association (GA).

Despite the evolving national restrictions, the department undertook multiple off-site fieldwork days with Lower Sixth and Remove geographers to prepare them for their public examinations. Remove boys conducted research into fluvial dynamics on the River Chess and engaged with an innovative online fieldwork project to consider urban change in Notting Dale.

Sixth Form boys travelled to Kings Cross, Queen Elizabeth Park, Canary Wharf and Great Missenden to prepare for their non-examined assessment (NEA) and produced projects of outstanding quality as a result. Harry Swanson (Druries) was awarded second place and a Special Mention in the RGS’ Ron Cooke Award for his outstanding NEA project considering the

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impact of LGBTQ+ populations on the place profile of Kemptown in Brighton, and Shubh Malde (Elmfield) was awarded the Macnamara Prize for the NEA for his top-scoring submission considering the impacts of immigration on social inequality in the Borough of Harrow. Two teams of

Harrovians participated in the GA’s online WorldWise Quiz. The event is modelled on University Challenge and involves a face-to-face quiz for teams of three students. Twenty-six teams from nine schools entered, so the Harrovians faced a formidable competitive field, but ultimately secured a superb result with one team finishing in third place among the seniors.

– Piers Lemoine, Head of Geography

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he academic year started in unusual circumstances with boys and beaks having to wait patiently outside Old Schools before entering the building for their lessons.

A new Shell curriculum entitled ‘Equality, justice and liberation through time’ was taught for the first time and allowed boys and beaks to reflect on important periods of history that have not conventionally been studied in the past.

The Seal, the History Department magazine, published some superb articles and included an edition which showcased the essays produced as entries for the Speech Day prizes.

The highlight of the academic year

saw a team of Harrovians, captained by Dylan Winward (Lyon’s), enter the International History Bee and Bowl

competition, which took place online.

The Harrow historians performed superbly and won the competition convincingly, ensuring that the team was crowned European Champions of the International History Quiz Bowl 2020. Joseph Wragg (The Grove) finished fifth in the European History Bee (the individual competition), which was a remarkable achievement.

Another notable individual achievement saw Jun Wha Shin (Elmfield) placed third in the Foundation for the History of Totalitarianism essay competition. This resulted in Jun Wha being invited to the Polish Embassy for the awards ceremony.

– Rob Potter, Head of History

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he Upper Sixth continued to study the rigorous Pre-U syllabus but, inevitably, having produced some excellent Personal Investigations including on the use of pigments in the work of Vermeer, a feminist approach to Velazquez and an investigation of Hockney’s iPad drawings, the boys were unable to sit the examinations. However, we used the opportunity to think about ‘institutions’ through an investigation of museology and the wider art world, including a trip to the British Museum as well as a tour of the commercial gallery David Zwirner.

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Lower Sixth art historians in Trafalgar Square outside the National Gallery

Art historians at the David Zwirner gallery

Meanwhile, the Lower Sixth welcomed a return to the A level syllabus, studying Renaissance Italy and early 20th-century Paris, as well as the themes of identity and war. While we were unable to organise the usual trips overseas, we were able to squeeze in a visit to the National Gallery when it reopened in the summer.

The national ARTiculation competition was once again a huge success with a number of very professional presentations by boys. However, it was Gareth Tan (Moretons) who prevailed, offering new insight into a much-loved painting, Edward Hopper’s Nighthawks. Gareth explored this painting about isolation through the prism of his own passions and experiences before bringing it up to date with its resonances with the pandemic. We were thrilled that Gareth sailed through the School heats all the way to the regional final.

Following the success of the competition in the Sixth Form, the History of Art Department also held its inaugural Junior ARTiculation. We were overwhelmed by both the interest and calibre of all the talks, and the adjudicator of the final, Kate Gordon, struggled to find a single winner, awarding the prize to two Shells: Charlie McDowell (The Knoll) and Otto Marre (The Grove).

– Juliet Bailey, Head of History of Art

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lthough many mathematics competitions were not able to run, the UK Maths Trust’s individual competitions took place as usual, and we saw some excellent performances in the Senior Maths Challenge with 25 gold, 38 silver and 16 bronze certificates awarded. Arvind Asokan (Bradbys), Leo Jiang and Daniel Zhang (both The Knoll) all scored 120/125. Sixteen boys went on to sit the first round of the British Mathematical Olympiad and a very impressive nine of these secured certificates of distinction, with James Yuen (Lyon’s) earning a medal for placing in the top 100 nationally.

The second round – the BMO2 – is an even harder paper aimed at the top couple of hundred candidates in the country. Six Harrovians entered and all performed well, with Krish Nigam (Moretons) top-scoring.

In the Spring term, it was the turn of the Lower School with the intermediate competitions, and they did not disappoint, earning an impressive 56 gold certificates in the Intermediate Maths Challenge, with 55 silver and 34 bronze. Liron Chan and Hansen Han (both The Grove) scored full marks. An astonishing 70 boys qualified to sit the follow-on Olympiad and Kangaroo papers. Top performers in each year in the Olympiad papers were Liron Chan in the Fifth Form (with Matthew Chin (Bradbys) also earning a distinction), Oscar Wickham (The Head Master’s) in the Remove (with Alex Huang and Henry Webster (Druries) also earning distinctions), and Rupert Lam (The Knoll) in the Shell, with distinctions also going to Wilfred Leung (Druries) and Larry Cao (Bradbys).

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he super-curricular activities of the MFL Department were much affected by the pandemic: no overseas trips were possible, and a number of our usual inter-school debating and drama competitions did not take place. Nevertheless, boys got stuck into the opportunities that were available, with some notable successes.

Many boys took part in the UK Linguistics Olympiad, with prizes at all levels. Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) was the first Harrovian in several years to score one of the highest marks nationally to qualify for the second round of the Advanced Stage, in which he narrowly missed out on selection for the UK team. Jan Kryca (Moretons) won the annual Research Prize in Modern Languages for his outstanding project entitled ‘The limitations of machine learning in natural language translation’.

Richard Hayward (The Knoll) was runner-up with his project on translations of children’s literature. Jun Wha Shin (Elmfield) was runner-up in the Oxford German Olympiad, and Henry Webster (Druries) was runner-up in a national original writing competition for French.

A number of boys entered the national Stephen Spender Prize for poetry

Richard Hayward undertook a project on translations of children’s literature

translation, and it was decided to run an additional internal competition. Boys could choose to translate any poem from a foreign language into English. Judges were looking for translations that read well in English, as well as showing an accurate understanding of the original. Poems were translated from languages including

Oscar Wickham won the internal Siddons competition (for Lower School boys only). The Snell Prize (open to the whole School) was shared by Brandon Chang (Druries) and Chris Liu (The Head Master’s) for retaining their 100% record across the whole academic year. The Grove won both the Yearlings and Torpids House Maths competitions, with Lyon’s securing the Senior trophy.

Krish Nigam earned second prize for his solutions to the very tough Student Problems in Mathematical Gazette. The Editor of the Gazette commented on Krish’s talent and perseverance.

Several boys were involved in delivering maths masterclasses through Shaftesbury Enterprise, although they took place online rather than in person as in previous years.

– James Hall, Acting Head of Mathematics

HDT supports the Modern Languages programme.

French, Latin, Dutch, Spanish, Mongolian and Old English. There were some excellent entries across the board. Third prize, for a translation from Russian, went to Thomas Hobbs (Newlands); second prize, for a translation from Dutch, went to Maxim van Aeken (Newlands); and first prize, for his translation from Latin of a passage from Virgil’s Georgics, went to June Hyun (West Acre).

The department teaches seven languages on-timetable – French, German, Italian, Japanese, Mandarin, Russian and Spanish – from which all Shell boys take two. The main seven languages plus an additional eight languages are available as off-timetable options – Arabic, Cantonese, Dutch, Modern Greek, Hungarian, Polish, Portuguese and Turkish. Richard Hayward, who won a place at UCL to study Russian with Hungarian, is one pupil who made the most of our provision, combining French and Russian on-timetable with Hungarian, Polish and Japanese off-timetable.

– Henry Johnson, Head of Modern Foreign Languages

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Lower Sixth physicists travelled to Thorpe Park during Expeditions Week

Physics Challenge aimed at the Lower Sixth, there were ten gold, 13 silver and five bronze awards. The gold award winners were Aakash Aggarwal (Lyon’s), Jake Brockwell (Moretons), Brandon Chang, Edward Cleeve, Edos Herwegh Vonk, Jeran Jeyanthan (Bradbys), James Pang (Druries), Inigo Sanchez Asiain Domenech (The Grove), David Xu and Newton Zhu (The Head Master’s). A special mention goes to Vincent Song and Henry Webster who sat the Senior Physics Challenge and achieved silver awards despite only being in the Remove year.

In the Lower School, about 130 Fifth Form and Remove boys entered the Intermediate Physics Challenge, with 95% of them achieving a gold or silver award.

Thirty-six boys achieved a gold award, 67 achieved silver and 20 achieved bronze. In the Fifth Form, the top scorers among the gold awards were Liron Chan (The Grove), Shrey Rawal (Rendalls), Andre Ma (Moretons), David Liu (Bradbys), Rowland

Eveleigh (The Grove) and Jonathan Riddell-Webster, while in the Remove the top scorers were Vincent Song, Mark Zeng (Elmfield), Henry Webster, June Hyun (West Acre) and Alex Huang (Bradbys). All Remove physicists also entered the Junior Physics Challenge, where 34 boys achieved a gold award, 58 a silver and 52 a bronze.

Brandon Chang produced a winning entry in the 2020 Immerse Education Essay Competition for his essay entitled ‘Why is Physics Important?’. Immerse Education received thousands of entries, so to be named as one of the highest calibre entrants was an excellent achievement.

We were able to resurrect our annual Thorpe Park trip as part of Expeditions Week. Lower Sixth physicists used phone apps to measure the acceleration produced at different points on the rides and fed this information into circular motion, Newton’s laws and energy conservation scenarios in an online quiz.

– James Bedford, Head of Physics

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hree teams, comprising 20 Lower Sixth boys, were tasked with devising novel engineering solutions in the study of the following projects: ■ Optimising the efficacy of face masks ■ The creation of a network of sensors to monitor and analyse air pollution ■ Investigating a system for sound source localisation

The teams spent six months on research and development, followed by an intensive write-up weekend. The finished reports have been submitted to the British Science Association’s CREST Gold Awards for evaluation and we are already in receipt of our first Gold Award certificates for this year.

– Robert Unwin, Head of Engineering

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new feature of the year was a regular flow of challenge questions posed to boys and beaks alike. These included conundrums involving planet-sized capacitors, Van der Waals gases, the Sun’s corona, lunar mining, Newton’s law of cooling, and the hydrodynamics of a cone in water. Brandon Chang (Druries) and Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) in the Lower Sixth, and Henry Webster (Druries) and Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) in the Remove should be commended for their efforts in tackling a number of these.

Two teams of boys entered the CERN Beamline for Schools International Competition, which tasked participants to propose a scientific experiment to perform at a particle accelerator. Team Positronly Beaming, consisting of Fifth Formers Aum Amin (Elmfield), Nurali Bibolat (Rendalls), Dante Doros (Elmfield), Christopher Liu, Jonathan Riddell-Webster (both The Grove) and Henry Webster, proposed an experiment ‘Detecting Lorentz Symmetry violations using synchrotron radiation’.

Team Heinz Beamline, consisting of Lower Sixth boys Jonathan Barley (Newlands), Brandon Chang, Edward Cleeve (Lyon’s), Edos Herwegh Vonk, David Xu (The Grove) and Remove Vincent Song, proposed ‘Investigating the absorption of electrons and positrons by different metals’. Both teams reached the final stage of the evaluation process, placing them in the top 10% of the 289 teams from across the globe who submitted entries. Team Heinz Beamline were selected to be part of the ‘shortlist’, while Team Positronly Beaming were selected for a special mention.

The British Physics Olympiad (BPhO) Round 1 paper is designed to stretch and challenge the top young physicists in the country. The Upper Sixth boys who took part achieved a good set of results with a top gold award going to Jason Zeng (Elmfield), putting him in the top 6.4% of the country, and a silver award going to Krish Nigam. A further 12 boys achieved bronze awards. Jason Zeng and Krish Nigam were subsequently invited to participate in the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad, in which they achieved bronze awards.

All Upper Sixth physicists entered the BPhO Physics Challenge, with 24 of them achieving certificates of merit, the highest award in this competition. In the Senior

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The number of boys opting to study Politics continued to grow

to see the foundations laid down by Fifth Formers in the Summer term of 2020 paying off as they began their A level studies as Lower Sixth divisions; they

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he Politics Department continued to brave the ever-changing teaching landscape to deliver lessons to boys both in person on the Hill and online via Teams. It was heartening to see the number of boys applying to read Politics and Politics-related degrees at high quality institutions both in the UK and further afield. The number of boys opting to study Politics in the Sixth Form continued to grow, demonstrating the importance of the subject to this generation of Harrovians. It was excellent

certainly hit the ground running and benefited from their introductory course in political philosophy and UK politics.

– Alastair Cook, Head of Politics

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We found that making use of online collaboration spaces where comments could be written by the boys led to deeper and more thoughtful spoken reflections.

During the lockdown, the boys were keen for the Super-Curriculum to continue. One group started to create a philosophy podcast series, which they hope will be ready during 2022. Another group of boys asked for a weekly seminar on the academic

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Upper Sixth Formers studied Freud (left) and Jung (right)

reading of the Bible, which was so popular it became quickly oversubscribed.

Andrew Arthur (The Knoll) was awarded third place in the HART Human Rights essay prize for his essay on education in Nigeria. The entries of Edred Clutton (The Knoll) and June Hyun (West Acre) were also both highly commended in their respective categories.

We were delighted to be able to release another edition of the department’s academic journal, which contained articles from boys and beaks on philosophical, theological and ethical matters.

– John McAleer, Head of Theology & Philosophy

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he necessity of online learning during the lockdown or hybrid learning for the rest of the year required creativity in delivering engaging lessons. We began by flipping the educational experience: Masters in the department deliberately delivered less instructional content when teaching online by getting the boys to prepare the lesson material in advance for ‘prep’, with the expectation that they would be able to work on live problem-solving during the lesson. The boys also worked collaboratively on group presentations – ranging from introducing the monotheistic religions in the Shell year to analysing Freud and Jung in the Upper Sixth.

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utumn 2020 was an unusual start for the School and the Vaughan Library.

We opened our doors to bubbled groups of boys, with sanitising stations and marked routes around the building. Despite the limitations on access and fewer numbers permitted inside, we successfully introduced every new Shell to the library. We updated our Library Management System to ensure all boys and staff could access the Vaughan Library catalogue via Firefly. This meant that we had more online enquiries this year and fewer personal visits, and we were reliant on emailing our booklists and photographs of the exhibitions as our footfall was limited.

We decided to build upon our collection of books on equality and diversity issues. In October, we launched Diversity Matters, a display of books and a booklist by Black, Asian and Ethnic Minority authors on a range of themes. The collection includes classic and contemporary novels, historical accounts of Black and British history and contemporary analysis of race politics.

The boys in The Guild embarked on the Desert Island Discs podcast series, where members of The Guild interviewed staff. It was a huge success, and 18 episodes were broadcast; as well as music choices, each interviewee recommended one book. The display of Desert Island Books in the Vaughan included all the book choices.

We created a new collection of graphic novels, as classic books such as Sapiens by Yuval Noah Harari and Portrait of a Dubliner

by James Joyce have been reprinted in graphic novel format.

Pride Month in June gave us the

opportunity to promote our LGBTQ+ collections to all boys and staff in the School and make the Vaughan Library a rainbow festival.

Speech Day Prizes 2021 Two hundred boys were awarded prizes this year and 705 books were ordered through the Vaughan Library. The most popular authors were George Orwell, Malorie Blackman, Richard Feynman, Professor Ian Stewart, J D Salinger, Steven D Levitt, Stephen J Dubner, J R R Tolkien, Tim Marshall and Friedrich Nietzsche.

The most popular titles included Hold Still: A Portrait of our Nation in 2020,

A Promised Land by Barack Obama, The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman, Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov, To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee, Why We Sleep

by Matthew Walker and Why Nations Fail

by Daron Acemoglu.

Photography and cookery books proved a popular choice: Japan: The Cookbook, Mob Kitchen and Atsuko’s Japanese Kitchen.

Books on nature and the environment were also in demand: The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben, Blue Planet II, A Life on Our Planet by David Attenborough and How to Avoid a Climate Disaster by Bill Gates.

– Marie Staunton, Head of Library and Archive

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LEXANDER SOCIETY MILITARY HISTORY

The first talk of the academic year was given

by Finn Maydon (The Grove). He spoke on the subject of ‘Waterloo, was it really a British victory at all?’, arguing that it was Britain’s European allies who really tipped the balance in the battle. Peter Cartwright (The Grove) gave a talk on the Battle of Assaye, focusing on whether it was the fiercest battle ever fought. Henry Ridley (The Park) discussed ‘King Philip’s War: The War that defined America’, giving a new perspective on a largely forgotten chapter of US history. Baba Obatoyinbo (The Knoll) spoke on the Nigerian Civil War, describing its causes, course, consequences and how its divisions can still

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be felt in modern-day Nigeria. Cyberwarfare was the topic of a talk by Physics beak Dr Chris Crowe, who explained how cyberwarfare is developing and how countries are trying to defend themselves against it. Hector Rogberg (Druries) lectured on ‘Lions of the North: How the Swedes saved protestant Europe’; Henry Farquhar (Lyon’s) spoke about ‘The face of battle: Stories from the men who fought at Stalingrad’; Joseph Wragg (The Grove) gave ‘A survey of warfare in the ancient Mediterranean world’; and Leo Waschkuhn (Lyon’s) presented a paper on ‘Why was the Tiger the most feared tank in World War II’.

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Shaan Nagra (CST) ‘The unanticipated Japanese triumph in the Russo-Japanese War’

Tuesday 25 May, 5pm VAUGHAN LIBRARY

ASTRONOMY SOCIETY

Mars

Head of the Astronomy Society Neil Kumar (West Acre) organised many observing evenings and lectures from interested boys.

These included a talk by Henry Webster (Druries), who gave an insightful introduction into the physics of black holes, and a talk titled ‘The Dyson Sphere and how to build one’ by Penn Behagg (Elmfield), in which he described this hypothetical megastructure, which would surround the Sun and provide power to a whole new civilisation. Inigo Sanchez-Asiain (The Grove) argued for the existence of a multiverse and

ATHENAEUM SOCIETY INTELLECTUAL EXPLORATION

The society enjoyed a mixture of traditional and online lectures. Adam Ait El Caid (Druries) spoke about ‘Eternal life: The impossible dream?’ and explored the scientific methods that might one day make living forever possible, as well as discussing how society would have to change if death were to be conquered. Matthew Harrison (West Acre) gave a talk on the topic of ‘Molecular drills’, which looked at biological machines and their applications. Gareth Tan (Moretons) explored how the malfunctioning of memory has been represented in literature and reflected on history in his lecture ‘Our malfunctioning memory’, and Sergey Antipovsky’s (West Acre) talk, ‘Why do governments intervene?’ considered what would theoretically happen in a completely free market economy and why some form of government intervention is necessary for stability.

Members of the Athenaeum Society

examined what its implications might be, and Apollo Wilkins (The Knoll) gave a talk on cryogenics and how it might allow us to travel distances through space that were previously thought impossible, as well as discussing how bodies have been frozen on Earth and whether it might be possible to wake someone from cryosleep. Julian Herschel’s (The Grove) talk looked in detail at the design of Space X’s latest rocket, nicknamed ‘Starship’, and Atticus Malley (The Head Master’s) discussed how living on Mars might be possible in the future.

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Among the lectures delivered to members of the Atlantic Society was ‘The American Constitution: can it be followed today without infringing human rights?’. The speaker, Alexander Newman (Druries), outlined why he believed the constitution cannot be adhered to in a contemporary context and why it is in need of reform. In another talk, Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) described one of the most interesting topics in the history of the USA: the path to the African American vote. Remi focused on the disenfranchisement of African Americans in the build-up to the civil rights movement and the fight for the right to vote.

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CULTURE AND POLITICS OF COUNTRIES SURROUNDING THE CASPIAN SEA

The Caspian Society participated in a fascinating and insightful talk by Alnur Abuov (Druries), Edward Blunt (Elmfield) and Archie Powell (The Head Master’s) entitled ‘Personality cults in southern ex-Soviet republics after the collapse of the USSR’, in which they heard about Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, the leader of Turkmenistan, Islam Karimov, the leader of Uzbekistan 1990–2016, and Nursultan Nazarbayev, President of Kazakhstan 1990–2019, and their rise through government ranks to become iconic “fathers” of their respective nations, in some ways resembling some of the leaders of the bygone Soviet era.

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Statue of Gurbanguly Berdimuhamedow, leader of Turkmenistan

CHESS CLUB The usual calendar of chess tournaments was cancelled and all the matches that were in the pipeline were called off.

Additionally, the coaching agreement which had just been set up with the president of Harrow Chess Club came to an abrupt end just as it was about to get going. We hope that all these things will become possible again in the near future.

Towards the end of the year, the House Chess Competition (for the highly prized

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The Computer Science Society hosted a series of lectures both remotely and in person from boys, beaks and external speakers. David Xu (The Grove) designed and built a new high-performance society PC which can run simulations 25 times faster than the current set of hardware. The society plans to use this new machine to further explore AI and machine learning.

Society meetings remained well attended with engaging sessions focused on rebuilding desktop PCs, tweaking architecture to produce more powerful systems, and occasional gaming. The society again upgraded the six desktop machines with more powerful graphics

Chess Chalice) was able to take place, albeit in an adjusted online format, and it proved to be a very exciting battle (at one point the top six Houses were separated by a single point!). Eventually, The Grove came out on top, with Liron Chan proving a revelation as their top player, having decided to spend lockdown learning how to play.

– James Hall, Master-in-Charge

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

cards and CPUs, extra RAM and better processors and motherboards. A special high-performance cluster was installed in the Physics Department to allow enthusiastic computer scientists to use high-end software that is unsuitable for operation on their mobile devices.

Upgraded Oculus Quest VR headsets allowed boys to walk around distant cities, play virtual sports, design in 3D, and even sit down to meet famous celebrities.

Leo Waschkuhn (Lyon’s) won the first budget-PC-building competition, for which boys were tasked with designing a desktop gaming PC for under £150, featuring recycled parts and discount hardware.

An off-shoot from the society, Team Enigma, designed an ecological project aimed at using sensor stations placed around the Hill to collect weather and air pollution data. Data will be fed into an AI model to make future predictions. The team plans to collect feedback from boys to gauge emotions and feelings throughout the day, to investigate any interesting correlations between environment conditions and School-life satisfaction. One member of Team Enigma, Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) also delivered a series of lectures on AI, covering the foundations of deep learning, computer vision techniques, and natural language processing.

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ENGINEERING

The Da Vinci Society talks were predominantly boy led, allowing them to develop and display their enthusiasm for engineering.

Particular highlights included an insightful talk by Aurélien Josserand (Newlands) on how aeroplanes are adapted for flight, and an excellent talk by Kevin Zhang (The Head Master’s) on how to manufacture elite running trainers. At a joint Da Vinci and Astronomy Society meeting, Q Sun (Moretons) spoke about engineering on the Moon, covering some of the aspects of engineering that would be much more difficult in the vast expanses of partial vacuums.

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Aurélien Josserand explained how aeroplanes are adapted for flight

DEBATING SOCIETY The School Debating Society enjoyed a successful year overall. The 1st Team won the second round of the English-Speaking Union (ESU) Debating Competition. Aakash Aggarwal (Lyon’s), William Wauchope (The Knoll) and Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) overcame five schools to earn a place at the ESU semi-finals in March. Harrow proposed the motion ‘This house would embrace emotion in public discourse over dispassionate objectivity’ and were opposed by a very strong team from Queensgate.

The boys capitalised on their forceful expression and delivery to overcome their opponents. They were also able to outshine other strong competitors in the rounds, from Ibstock Place School, Godolphin & Latymer, St Michael’s Catholic Grammar School and King’s College School Wimbledon. The 1st Team argued brilliantly

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in the semi-finals, on the motion that ‘This house would ban corporate funding of research within higher education institutions’ but were not able to overcome a very strong team from Bishop’s Stortford High School.

The Harrow A Team of Alexander Newman (Druries) and Vincent Song (The Head Master’s) won first place in the London Middle Schools open debating competition. The boys beat eight other schools, including Benenden School, Francis Holland, Godolphin & Latymer and Putney High. The Harrow B Team, Aum Amin (Elmfield) and Robert Young (The Grove) were placed fifth overall in the competition of 18 teams.

In the Oxford Schools’ Union debate, Haiwei Li (Bradbys) and Ezekiel Akinsanya (Lyon’s) were placed second in the Novice

category. Both boys started in the Debating Society in September 2020 and, with hard work and practice, did tremendously well not only to advance to the OSU finals but to end up only a few points behind first place – an impressive start to their debating careers.

The Debating Society was also especially active over Zoom, and held exhibition debates against Eton, Harrow School Online, an iDebate team from Rwanda, and Godolphin & Laytmer School.

The 1st Team also enjoyed a lively yet friendly match against a beaks team. The motion, proposed by the beaks, was to abolish private schools. The boys argued forcefully for the advantages of private education, and won the debate easily – and with full-throated support from an audience of mostly boys.

– Steven Kennedy, Master-in-Charge

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The Gutenberg Bible in the New York Public Library

LAMBARDS

CHRISTIAN UNION

Flambards continued to meet each week despite the disruption of the pandemic.

The meetings ranged from online Microsoft Teams calls to in-person meetings in the Hill Café. The Autumn term series consisted mainly of online talks and focused on the gospel of Mark, and various OHs (James Baron (Newlands 19702), Johnny Farrar-Bell (Moretons 20043) and Adrian May (West Acre 19843)) returned to the Hill to speak. The Spring term series was delivered exclusively through Microsoft

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The Geography Society enjoyed a wide range of lectures, delivered both online and in person. Olly Harrison (The Knoll) gave a presentation on the ills of social inequality, discussing the trade-off between economic growth and equality in advanced countries. William Barrett and Dimitri Samonas (both The Knoll) together delivered a lecture on why cellular aquaculture is the future, analysing the drawbacks of commercial fishing and introducing this method of lab-grown fish as the alternative in the future of food production. Freddie Taylor (Newlands) gave the final lecture of the year to the society on how the UK was made. He walked through how the UK was formed from its physical foundations

Area 51, one of the most secret places on Earth

to how British culture has changed and developed over time. Freddie also gave a talk called ‘The most secretive places on Earth’, in which he discussed the five places that he believed to be among the most secure and well-guarded on Earth. The talk encompassed the location as well as the origin and purpose of these places.

A group of Upper Sixth geographers presented their coursework projects to

the current Lower Sixth on topics ranging from inequality to infiltration, which sparked the interest and inspired the creativity of the next cohort for their own projects. The society also had the pleasure of welcoming Dr Andrew Lee to speak on ‘Why Geography?’. Dr Lee described the importance of Geography as an academic subject and gave insight into what Geography entails at university.

– Ezekiel Akinsanya (Lyon’s)

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Teams and changed focus to study the book of Genesis, with Philip Leung (The Park 20083) also returning to the Hill to speak to the boys. The Summer term series focused on the book of Hebrews and was the first term where visiting speakers (including Brian Wong (The Knoll 20013)) could deliver talks in person to the boys.

The meetings were well attended throughout the year despite the variety of models that they took.

– Johny Marsden, Master-in-Charge

Despite the difficulties in bringing external speakers to the Hill, thanks to the creativity and endeavour of boys and beaks the society saw some fantastic internal lectures from boys on such varied topics as Wittgenstein’s pre-linguistic philosophy, and the sociology of cults. Other highlights included a poignant and prescient lecture from Dr Spencer Bentley on the effect pandemics had on religious conversion in the ancient world, and a wonderful three-lecture series in collaboration with the Perceval Society around the influence of religion in African cultures. At a joint meeting with Scientific Society, Professor Meric Srokosz, who is Associate Director at the Faraday Institute of Science and Religion at Cambridge and also associated with the National Oceanography Centre in Southampton, spoke on the subjects of climate change and fake news, and the relationship between science and religion. The Spring term also saw the revival of the Gore Society magazine, with a second edition on ‘Equality, Rights and Justice’.

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New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina

The Alhambra in Granada, an example of Moorish influence in Spain

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The L P Hartley Society meets once every half-term to enjoy work from a particular author, poet or playwright and to use this work to inspire their own writing.

Meetings also allow boys time to share and to discuss samples of their writing.

The year’s inaugural workshop was led by Gareth Tan (Moretons) who presented on ‘The fantastical world of Haruki Murakami’, the bestselling Japanese writer, and inspired some outstanding surrealist pieces from boys. When Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) led a session on ‘The Gothic’ on a cold rainy night in midNovember, we were already attending

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The Abbey in the oak wood by Caspar David Friedrich

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Despite the disruption to the Spring term, we were fortunate enough to welcome speakers on topics such as ‘The geographical impacts of metal extraction’, ‘Why does South Africa have such a diverse landscape’ and ‘Hurricane Katrina: an inevitable disaster or government failure?’. A particular highlight this year was a lecture titled ‘The sustainable development goals: It may be too late to save the goals but is it too late to save the dream’, which provoked a thoughtful and insightful debate among participants.

– Jay Raithatha (Druries)

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Dylan Winward led a session on ‘The Gothic’

events in an online format. The sessions continued online with workshops from Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s), who gave a session inspired by Tom Hanks’ book of short stories, Uncommon Type, where all the stories are linked through a typewriter.

Alexander Newman (Druries) followed with the subject of ‘Using religion to reframe your narrative’. Indi Abrams’ (The Grove) talk on writing psychological literature was a highlight as we celebrated our return to in-person presentations.

Cameron Elliot (West Acre) closed off the year with an exciting session on writing thrillers.

Photograph by Jebulon (CCO 1.0)

In the inaugural meeting of the Hispanic Society, Remi Jokosenumi and Edward Pagani (both Lyon’s) spoke on ‘The influence of the Moors in southern Spain’ and their enduring effect on Spanish language and culture. Other speakers included Jake Ramus (Lyon’s), who spoke on ‘The Costa Rican Civil War: 44 days of bloodshed for lasting peace’, highlighting how bloodshed led to nearly a century of growth and progress. Lucas Maia (Druries) discussed ‘Hispanic history and culture in America’, tackling important issues such as race and equality. Hispanic Society members were also delighted to be addressed by author John Hooper on his book The New Spaniards.

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The Mathematical Society had a very active year and saw a huge number of talks from boys and beaks on topics including the golden ratio, “mathmagics”, game theory, curve sketching, the Rubik’s cube, public key encryption, Bernoulli numbers, topology and the Fibonacci Sequence.

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During the year, the Peel Society heard a series of talks on the theme of ‘History’s forgotten’. Subjects included the Haitian Revolution, which was the most successful slave revolt in history and led to the island’s independence from France in 1804, a talk titled ‘Legal slaves: India’s indentured labourers’, which described the labourers brought from India to work in South Africa, and another on Gustavus Adolphus and the rise of Sweden as a Great Power. Members of the society also enjoyed a series of talks on espionage. The first, delivered by Tamin Downe (The Grove) was on ‘Conquering a

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state without a single bullet: The history of subversion’. The second, from Sam Phillips (Moretons), was called ‘Was the USA or the USSR more successful at Cold War espionage?’. Other talks looked at the impact of the Culper Ring on the outcome of the American Revolution, and international espionage during the Spanish Civil War. The society also held a meeting in which members found out more about Time magazine’s Person of the Year, reviewed former winners and discussed the year’s potential candidates.

The remains of Carthage, a city discussed in a talk to the society

Photograph by Christian Manhart (CC-BY-SA 3.0 IGO)

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The Oriental Society heard a series of talks from members. Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) delivered a talk entitled ‘Deng Xiaoping: Economic visionary, draconian despot or both?’. Herwegh Vonk’s talk informed the audience about a fascinating chapter of Chinese history, navigating the extraordinary life of Deng Xiaoping and discussing his enduring legacy. Tamir Zolboo (The Head Master’s) gave a lecture, ‘From Genghis Khan to today: the rise and fall of the Mongol Empire’, which described what Mongolia was like pre-empire and how Genghis Khan united tribes across the region to form one of the strongest empires in history. Benjamin Thu Ya (Elmfield) talked to the society about Myanmar, or Burma, covering topics including Burmese culture, cuisine and politics. The prevalence and influence of religious cults in South Korea was the topic of another talk that explored several of the cults that have established themselves in South Korea and looked at why the South Koreans seem to be so susceptible to their influence. Kiefer Yeo (The Head Master’s) presented a lecture on ‘The origins of Chinese ceramics: Their significance and influence’.

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Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) gave an in-depth insight into the history of the culture surrounding Africans and their hair. The talk was entitled ‘Braid: the history behind the knots’. He described the true significance of braids in Africa, how they are used as a medium for socialising and building relationships, and how people used them to express their identities. The talk also explored the meaning of hair in slavery and how hair has been used as an expression of

rebellion over the years. He finished by speaking about reform in hair-based race relations. Joseph Wragg (The Grove) delivered an online lecture, ‘Frontier and Gateway of empires: North Africa, a history’, in which he described the history of North Africa from the time of Phoenicia and Carthage to the present day, outlining the importance of expansion and considering how North Africa used to be one of the richest places in the world.

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Pigou Society members learnt about game theory

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ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS The Pigou Society invited a wide range of speakers including Daniel Austin (Rendalls 1987³), who discussed his work in property finance and the significance and importance of current and historical factors such as the UK crashing out of the ERM or, more recently, massive quantitative easing programmes.

Siddharth Prasad, Global Head of Finance at Nomura, gave an insight into the world of finance. Former beak Alex Rusby returned to talk about behavioural science in a memorable lecture that had everyone making mistakes and thinking fast. In response to the boys’ requests for more beak-led talks, Mr Escott spoke on game theory and Miss Heatherill gave an introduction to financial markets. Bilal Rashid (Elmfield) did an outstanding job of leading the society.

Talks given by boys in the School included: ■ ‘Economics of the NBA’ – Alfred Sun (Bradbys) ■ ‘Speculative bubbles always go pop’ – Kevin Zheng (Newlands) ■ ‘Is sustainability a drag on growth?’

– Issah Merchant (The Knoll) ■ ‘Bitcoin? No, blockchain: more than magic internet money’ – Leo Jiang (The Knoll) ■ ‘Financialisation and progressive capitalism’ – Leon Kinaro (Moretons) ■ ‘Venezuela: the unexpected crisis’ – Kyle Debrah (Elmfield) and Hugo Anderson (Newlands)

■ ‘Is macroeconomic stability just a

dream?’

– Ezekiel Akinsanya (The Knoll) ■ ‘Redlining: wealth restriction and real estate segregation’ – Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s)

The first Psychology Society meeting of the year featured a talk by Joseph Mclean (Druries) on ‘Essentialism: why we are attracted to the hidden aspects of things and people’. In later meetings, Sam McGougan (Bradbys) gave a fascinating introduction to the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and Que Akhavan Zanjani (Druries) delivered a complex talk on Karl Jung and his life studies and findings. Aarav Tribhuvan (Moretons) outlined how post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) manifests itself and explained that statistics suggest that three in 100 people in the UK will have experienced PTSD at some point in their lives. Alex Adefarasin (The Grove) spoke to the society about Rorschach’s Inkblot test in a talk full of psychological insights, comedy and practical demonstrations. The infamous Stanford Prison Experiment was the subject of a talk

by Archie Tate (The Head Master’s).

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Sam McGougan (DJE)

Talks from members of the Junior Pigou Society included: ■ ‘SpaceX and NASA: a story of innovation, exploration and adaptation’ – Alexander Newman (Druries) ■ ‘Inflation, deflation or stagflation: where are we heading?’

– Adiran Inpan (Bradbys) ■ ‘How to make profit in the video games market’ – Mark Liu (Druries) ■ ‘The maths behind trading’ – Henry Webster (Druries) ■ ‘The Rise of Apple’ – Cameron Elliot (West Acre) ■ ‘It is a monopoly, but you can’t advance to go’ – Michel Quist and Vlad Plyushchenko (both The Grove) Antonio da Silveira Pinheiro (The Park) gave a joint Junior Classics and Junior Pigou Society lecture on Rome’s financial crisis of 33AD: ‘Who was to blame and how did quantitative easing rescue Rome?’, which explored this obscure yet fascinating financial crisis that has in part shaped the way our economy works today.

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There were more talks given by boys and beaks than ever before, courtesy of the very active Scientific Society secretaries Q Sun (Moretons), Simon Luo (Bradbys), Krish Nigam (Moretons) and Henry To (The Grove).

One of the highlights was a talk entitled ‘Beyond quantum computation: the science of can and can’t’ by Dr Chiara Marletto.

Dr Marletto is Professor David Deutsch’s collaborator in developing Constructor Theory, a proposal for a new mode of explanation in fundamental physics. Other visiting speakers included Thanos Kildaras of Imperial College, who spoke about ‘Lunar Geology and the Apollo Missions’. PhD student Joshua Rasera, also of Imperial, stayed with the moon to discuss spaceresource utilisation and mining on the moon.

A third speaker from Imperial, Stanley Starr, gave an insightful talk entitled ‘Living off the Land on Mars’. Mr Starr worked at the Kennedy Space Center for over 37 years. At NASA, he worked on the development of the space shuttle programme before becoming part of the Mars mission-planning team.

Dr Glenn Hurst, Associate Professor of Chemistry at the University of York, spoke on the topic of ‘Empowering the next generation to propel us towards a greener and more sustainable society’, and Dr Ian

Miller, Lecturer in Medical History at Ulster University, talked on ‘Science, the Irish famine and dietary change c.1845–1900’.

The Rayleigh Lecture 2021 was given by Professor Neil Ferguson, a name that has become very well known since the outbreak of the Covid pandemic. Professor Ferguson is Vice-Dean of the Faculty of Medicine of Imperial, former epidemiologist at the Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies, founding director of the Jameel Institute for Disease and Emergency Analytics and MRC Centre for Global Infectious Disease Analysis. He spoke on ‘How vaccines and variants are shaping epidemiology and policy in the COVID-19 pandemic’.

Talks given by boys and beaks included:

■ ‘Amino acids: how they shaped the

world’ – Nicklas Host-Verbraak (The Head Master’s) ■ ‘Paradoxes of Special Relativity’ – Brandon Chang (Druries) ■ ‘Bayesian Theory: the science behind false tests’ – Matthew Chin (Bradbys) ■ ‘The hunt for magnetic monopoles’ – Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands) ■ ‘Fluid dynamics: the wacky world of wind and water’ – Jonathan Barley (The Grove) ■ ‘The ingredients of the Universe – from

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The Sculpture Society, launched in January 2021, hosted artists, teachers, pupils and professionals with excellent knowledge in this field of the visual arts. One highlight was Jane McAdam Freud, Fellow of the Royal British Society of Sculptors, with a talk on ‘Content, context and process’, which took us on an insightful journey into her work. Jane is represented in the British Museum and the V&A and, in 2014, won the European Trebbia award for achievement in the arts.

Matt Hughes, Head of Modelling at Framestore, gave an insight into ‘The art of VFX’. An Oscar-winning creative studio, Framestore has worked with some of the greatest storytellers in film today. Professional taxidermist Elle Kaye gave a fascinating talk titled ‘Preservation of our species’, and Benji Xu and Vadim Gurinov (both The Grove),

the Big Bang and r-processes to elements’ – Chris Liu (The Head Master’s) ■ ‘The chemistry of colour: from conjugation length to the Schroedinger equation’ – Henry Webster (Druries) ■ ‘Human-parasite interactions: a brief history and possible future’ – Will Tate (The Knoll) ■ ‘Annoying allergies: why do we sneeze?’

– June Hyun (West Acre) ■ Bringing back the woolly mammoth: a stepping-stone for mankind or a fruitless endeavour?

– Newton Zhu (The Head Master’s) ■ ‘MOSFET: the gateway to technology’ – David Xu (The Grove) ■ ‘The Bhopal gas tragedy of 1984’ – Aum Amin (Elmfield) ■ ‘The world of real-life zombies’ – Charlie Read (The Grove) ■ ‘Designing new antibiotics – taking on the superbugs’ – Dr Jonathan Lockett

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the secretaries of the society, held an online interview with Clare Burnett, President of the Royal Society of Sculptors.

The Sheridan Society produced another stellar array of speakers. Max Morgan (Moretons) opened the season with a dissection of Sylvia Plath’s confessional poetry, while Joseph Wragg (The Grove) transported us to the world of Tolkien’s Silmarillion. Our American specialists Hector Michelin (Elmfield) and Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) led the way in the second term with their talks on the Beat generation and the Harlem Renaissance respectively.

A highlight of the Harrovian presentations was delivered by Indi Abrams (The Grove) who used his own writing as an example to talk boys through writing a fight scene.

Later in the year, we were able to welcome external speakers to the Hill.

We heard from Dr Emily Taylor-Pirie about literature and medicine in the 19th century. This opened boys’ eyes to the cross-over of science and literature and included a fantastic Contagion Cabaret!

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RUSSIAN-SPEAKING COUNTRIES AND EASTERN EUROPE The Slavonic Society calendar started with a visit from the newly appointed Ambassador of Russia to the United Kingdom, His Excellency Andrei Vladimirovich Kelin. In his address, the Ambassador outlined the constantly shifting diplomatic relationship between the United Kingdom and Russia over the last 450 years. He emphasised that, regardless of the political climate, the two partners have sustained their diplomatic relationship even through the uncertain times of conflict. After tackling the topic of fake news and its impact on international relationships in the 21st century, the Ambassador discussed how coronavirus had affected economic activity in the Russian Federation.

While in distance-learning mode, members of the Slavonic and Caspian Societies joined girls from St Paul’s Girls’ School for an insightful online talk by Professor Richard Mole of UCL entitled ‘Sexuality and nationality in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia’, which was a crash course in the history of the Russian attitude towards sexuality and how it has changed over the country’s turbulent history.

This was followed by a talk by Blesk Ekpenyong (Druries) and his father entitled

Leavers’ reception

Members of the Slavonic Society

‘Black skin in the Red Land: Does modernday Russia need a Black Lives Matter movement?’. The talk, which was hugely enriched by Mr Ekpenyong’s stories from his time spent as a Nigerian student in the USSR, broke many commonly held stereotypes, concluding that if Russia were to have a BLM movement it would need to be rebranded to prevent Russians from merely seeing it as a Western idea that has no relevance in Russia.

Later, members of the society, along with students from other schools, were invited by the Russian Embassy to participate in a meeting with the Russian cosmonaut Sergey Ryazanskiy to mark the 60th anniversary of Yuri Gagarin’s historical space mission.

In the Summer term, the society was treated to an online lecture from Thomas Hobbs (Newlands) entitled ‘Soviet propaganda: The fight for the hearts and minds of Russia’s young people’. After a brief overview of the background of the USSR, Hobbs expounded on how propaganda was the Bolsheviks’ most important tool of governance as it was the key to unifying the people of the 15 republics that made up the Union, and how an effective youth indoctrination programme played a crucial role in achieving this goal.

To conclude the eventful academic year, the senior members of the Slavonic Society attended a traditional farewell reception for leavers, where they could indulge themselves in a variety of Eastern European dishes.

His Excellency Andrei Vladimirovich Kelin, Russian Ambassador

Photograph by Alvesgaspar (CC BY-SA 4.0)

SOCIETIES St Peter’s Basilica in the Vatican City

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Immanuel Kant

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The Somervell Society heard a lecture on ‘Is eating people wrong’, given by Preston Chung and Ryan Lai (both The Grove), which examined Kantianism, utilitarianism, the law on necessity as a defence, natural law theory and legal positivism, the relationship between law and morality, and

whether murder as a defence can be justified in a modern society. Ayo Ajibola (Bradbys) gave a talk etitled ‘The rule of law’, which looked at the framework of the rule of law, why it is significant, and the role it has in preserving freedom by safeguarding justice.

The Summerson Society hosted talks by both students and external speakers. Max Hattersley (The Park) and George Phillips (The Head Master’s) delivered an insightful talk about the properties of various pigments, while Freddie Strange (Newlands) revealed the art market to us. Meanwhile, James Macdonald, Senior Director at Sotheby’s, introduced boys to the Old Masters, while academic Tim Demetris metaphorically took us to the papacy of Renaissance Rome, where we met two of the most important artistic patrons of the della Rovere family.

The Cow Boy. Photograph by Sturgis, c1888, JCH Grabill Collection, Library of Congress

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The Trevelyan Society continued to flourish despite the absence of external speakers.

The Lower Sixth took the lead in providing a series of talks on a wide range of topics.

Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) started the academic year by delivering a lecture on the ‘The art of hypocrisy: a global response to the autumn of 1956?’. In his talk, Dylan assessed the parallels and inter-related factors that contributed to both the Hungarian Uprising and the Suez Crisis. Jin Park (The Knoll) gave a talk on the division of Korea and why this remains important in modern Korean society. He explained the origins of the division of the Korean peninsula and its significance to the Korean people. The society also provided a welcome distraction during the lockdown in early 2021, with

The Trevelyan Society heard a talk on the American West

Jack Hedley (The Head Master’s) giving a talk on ‘The American West – the formation of America’s identity’, and Edred Clutton (The Knoll) providing a lecture on the anti-war

movement in America during the Vietnam War. The academic year ended with another presentation from Jin Park on ‘What is the end of history?’.

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Adam Chambers (Rendalls)

Art When we arrived back on the Hill in September 2020, there was a palpable sense, especially among the Fifth Form and Upper Sixth boys, that there was no time to waste, and they set about making work that was resolutely ambitious.

Paint, clay and plaster flew off the shelves and resulted in some extremely accomplished work.

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uring the Autumn term, artist Ian Murphy led our Lower Sixth Form A level cohort through a drawing masterclass, introducing an array of techniques including graphite powder and graphite sticks, with some really striking results that acted as a springboard for boys’ work throughout the academic year. In the Spring term, Visiting Artist Elizabeth Drury held an exhibition of her work both in the School’s Pasmore Gallery and online.

Elizabeth’s work explores the limitations of

Visiting Artist Elizabeth Drury

HDT funded the appointment of the School’s visiting artist.

an observational drawing, using research into object attachment theory, the mystification of everyday objects and early film sets. She inspired Harrow boys throughout the term, both remotely and on the Hill, giving one-to-one tutorials, mentoring groups and working on a series of drawings in her studio next to the Pasmore Gallery.

The annual House Art exhibition was, like so many other cultural events, held online.

However, the calibre of the 120 pieces of work submitted by all 12 Houses was in no way diminished despite boys being away from the Hill, and the result was a superb online exhibition. Mr Peter Cordeaux, Head of Art at John Lyon School, was this year’s House Art adjudicator and he provided insightful, constructive feedback about the work of every House. West Acre won best overall House, with Newlands and Elmfield the two runners-up. Individual year prizes were awarded to Otto Marre (The Grove), Alex Newman (Druries), Alex Ghani (The

Knoll), Sam McGougan (Bradbys) and George Phillips (The Head Master’s). Special prizes were awarded to Johnny Connell (Rendalls) and Nicky Platt (Moretons).

This year’s Burston Prize was awarded to George Phillips for his drawings and curated objects recreating a corner of a museum. The judge, artist Alex Chamberlin (Druries 19863), noted the collection’s mature coherence, in spite of the eclectic subject matter, which had the ability to draw the viewer’s imagination far and wide.

Most, if not all, gallery and museum exhibitions were viewed online during the academic year. However, in the Summer term the department made up for lost time by taking our Remove artists to Kew Gardens, Tate Britain and St Paul’s Cathedral to gather first-hand source material for their GCSE projects. Our Lower Sixth artists visited the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Botanical Garden in Oxford, and the Natural History Museum in London – Laurence Hedges, Director of Art

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Above, Caspar Bird (West Acre)

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Above, Caspar Bird (West Acre)

Above, Tomas Kemp (The Park)

Above, Shubh Malde (Elmfield)

Below, Arturo Saville Mascioni (Rendalls)

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Below, Harrison Zhao (West Acre)

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Below, Will Tate (The Knoll)

Below, Yoh Ishikawa (Elmfield)

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Above, Max Kawkabani (Rendalls)

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Above, Elliott Taylor (West Acre)

Below, Joseph Smith (Bradbys)

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Below, Harry Swanson (Druries)

Below, Benji Xu (The Grove)

Below, Jasper Gray (Newlands)

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Above, Charles Read (The Grove)

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Above, Patrick Lehrell (Moretons)

Above, Adam Chambers (Rendalls)

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Below, Marc Lindgren (West Acre)

Below, Marcus Tung (West Acre)

Below, Marcus Tung (West Acre)

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Photography FOX TALBOT DIGITAL PHOTOGRAPHY COMPETITION

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udges for the 2021 Fox Talbot Competition, which took place in person rather than online as it did in 2020, were Clive Barda (OBE), best-known for his work with the Royal Opera House, the RSC and the National Theatre; portrait and fine art photographer Clare Park, whose work has been exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery as well as the V&A Royal Photographic Society Collection; and Genevieve Stevenson, an artist who has worked with designers such as Halpern, Phoebe English, Ryan Lo, Richard Malone and many more. The granddaughter of a Harrovian, she expressed how “behind every photo is a thought process, searched and chosen by an individual”, and it was with this in mind that she explained her excitement to once again look “through the eyes of a student”.

First place in the Senior category was awarded to James Gibbons (West Acre) for Two Faced, a family portrait featuring his father and sister that was a superb hyper-reality image and a fine example of a successful montage. The judges commented on the “intensity of the family bond” between the two subjects, reflecting how it evoked the experience of many in lockdown during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The theme of lockdown was continued by Below, Looking Out, Rufus Hunter (Rendalls)

Above, Two Faced, James Gibbons (West Acre)

both the runners-up in this category. Rufus Hunter (Rendalls) was commended for Looking Out, a poignant black and white image of his sister at a window, gazing outside. The composition communicated a sense of hope that was utterly captivating.

Harry Tack’s (Newlands) Escape, a selfportrait montage, sought to explore how ‘by

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reading, someone can be transported away from reality into a new world’.

The powerful sense of movement also contributed to the way in which the subject appeared to be having an otherworldly experience.

In the Junior category, St John Smith’s (Newlands) entry Evening Sunset was described by the judges as a “visual poem” with its combination of seemingly everyday life with the magical sunset.

The first of two runners-up in the Junior category was Daniel Eldridge (The Grove), whose photograph A Day in London attracted recognition for its excellent framing of the focal tree at the bottom of the image. The disappearing horizon and enormity of the buildings within the image conveyed the sheer scale of urban London, simultaneously highlighting the splendour of nature.

The second runner-up was Alexandros Aldrich-Blake-Ouzounis (West Acre), whose drone image of the glorious landscape of Polzeath beach in Cornwall included some incredible colours, and no doubt demanded some intelligent piloting skills.

The judges were keen to express how impressed they were with the quality and variety of the entries.

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Above, Escape, Harry Tack (Newlands)

Above, Evening Sunset, St John Smith (Newlands)

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Below, A Day in London, Daniel Eldridge (The Grove)

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oys studying A level photography had a very challenging year producing work in a global pandemic, but lockdown did not stop them from creating a wide variety of dramatic and inspiring images. Many decided to play to their particular strengths, such as portraiture or landscape photography. Cameron Yarrow (Druries) travelled into London on his bike to photograph an empty Piccadilly Circus and used a drone to capture a vacant Emirates stadium. Some boys set themselves complex shooting plans, such as Ethan Childs (Newlands), who decided to construct a futuristic view of the world where buildings were stacked on top of each other. Rufus Hunter (Rendalls) showed an interesting take on the portrait using colour and light trails in a highly effective way. Guy Walsh (Elmfield) decided on an interesting edit of the War Memorial at Harrow, showing it in a new and exciting light. Rachel Thornton (who joined our lessons from Whitmore High School in Harrow) produced strong, attentiongrabbing black and white portraits, and Rafe Hogben’s (Newlands) surreal approach to buildings was both mysterious and eye catching. Sam Lussier (The Knoll) explored feelings associated with lockdown with his face covered in text. Boys from across the School were able to enjoy all the work done in Photography in the Speech Day exhibitions.

– Darren Bell, Head of Photography Above, Cameron Yarrow (Druries)

Above, Cameron Yarrow (Druries)

Above, Cameron Yarrow (Druries)

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Below, Rufus Hunter (Rendalls)

Above, Ethan Childs (Newlands)

Above, Rachel Thornton (Whitmore High School, Harrow) Below, Guy Walsh (Elmfield)

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Above, Orlando Hill (The Head Master’s)

Above, Rafe Hogben (Newlands)

Below, George Fenwick (The Park)

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ocial distancing for audiences, and careful additional measures for the safety of boys and staff did not derail a varied and vigorous year of Harrow Drama.

To start the season, staff in the department were involved in facilitating the OH Players’ audio production of Hamlet, with Lawrence Ubong Williams (Moretons 20033) electrifying in the title role. This inventive digital solution from the Old Harrovian company set the tone for a year of problem-solving, innovation and teamwork from all involved in bringing an ambitious series of School drama projects to fruition.

In late September, the second annual House Scenes Competition took place in the Ryan Theatre, with each House producing and presenting a dramatic extract. Mr James Trapmore, Head of Curricular Drama at King’s College School Wimbledon, commended the high standard of focus and creativity across the board, before awarding the House Scenes Trophy to The Grove for their witty, momentumfilled excerpt from Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead by Tom Stoppard.

Mr Trapmore also gave special commendations to Leo Jiang (The Knoll) and Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) for their individual acting performances.

Upper Sixth Form boys Max Morgan (Rendalls) and Gabe Rogers (The Knoll) directed Waiting for Godot, with a cast of boys from their year group. A reconfigured ‘in-the-round’ Ryan Theatre provided an appropriately atmospheric arena for Samuel Beckett’s masterpiece. Gabe Rogers and

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Waiting for Godot

Bradbys House Play, A Man for All Seasons

Freddie Strange (Newlands) brought comic timing and existential angst to Vladimir and Estragon respectively. Matthew Ball (Moretons) was a commanding, eccentric Pozzo, and George Gallagher (The Grove) was both extroverted and sympathetic as his servant, Lucky.

Just before October half-term, every new boy took to the stage in the Shell Drama Festival. Each House presented a version of one of Hans Christian Andersen’s tales, devised and directed by Lower Sixth Form boys. OH actor Tobias Deacon (Newlands 20003) joined the groups on stage as a narrator and accompanist.

Bradbys presented the first House Play of the year: A Man for All Seasons by Robert Bolt. Alison O’Neill’s production particularly brought out the thriller elements in the

piece, played out in a sparce arena evoking simultaneously a cathedral and a boxing ring. Federico Greaves gave a committed performance as Sir Thomas More, leading the energy and intelligence with which the ensemble cast attacked a play full of heated debate. Charlie Clayton brought a strong sense of morality to the role of Thomas Cromwell. Charlie De Hemptinne was playfully inventive as the Common Man – the chorus figure of the piece – and Tiernan O’Brien gave a striking cameo as Henry VIII. Next, an atmospheric, soulful production of The Great Gatsby, based on F Scott Fitzgerald’s ‘roaring twenties’ novel, was staged by The Head Master’s. A large cast brought momentum and humour in Lucy Ashe’s stylish staging, complete with accomplished period dancing. The novel’s scenes seemed to be conjured from thin air in countless moments of inventive physical theatre, finishing with the whole auditorium bathed in that famous ‘green light’ which is such a symbol of longing for the characters.

Reuben Ackermann brought pitch-perfect delivery to the character of Nick; Phoenix Ashworth was an enigmatic Gatsby.

January’s national restrictions prevented live performance in the Ryan Theatre for much of the Spring term. There was no shortage of online innovation, though: in February, 17 boys presented individual performances from home as part of the Shell Monologues Final. Adjudicator Mr David Kenworthy, Head of Drama at Marlborough College, gave inciteful, encouraging notes, before naming Tom Leonard (Lyon’s) and Hans Patel (Newlands) as joint runners-up, and Rory Grant (Moretons) as the winner, for his rendition

52 53 of Edmund from King Lear. Junior and senior boys also attended improvisation workshops online, which continued in person when ‘on-site’ business resumed in March and morphed into the newly formed Improvisation Society.

In 2020-21, all boys in the Shell year participated in weekly timetabled Drama lessons – exploring ensemble exercises, individual acting skills, theatre reviewing, scriptwriting, comedy, and Shakespeare in performance. GCSE and A level Drama divisions produced a diverse and ambitious range of practical pieces including excerpts from Shakespeare, Chekhov, Brecht and contemporary drama, and devised pieces inspired by Greek mythology and ‘falling statues’.

The Ryan Theatre was ready to reopen to

House Scenes Competition

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The Head Master’s House Play, The Great Gatsby

audiences as soon as nationwide restrictions allowed. Just before the May half-term, The Knoll presented their House play, Rope, directed by Adam Cross. Patrick Hamilton’s suspense classic presents a chilling anatomy of an apparently motiveless murder. Played out on a circular stage under the ominous hanging presence of a chandelier made of rope, the cat and mouse games gripped our first ‘in person’ audience of 2021. Jasper Smallwood had a dynamic presence as Brandon, the deranged mastermind of the scheme. Leo Jiang maintained a nervous intensity as Granno, his partner in crime. Gabe Rogers, as Rupert Cadell, the Wildean sleuth, had the audience’s rapt attention through his character’s witticisms and gradual control of the desperate conceit.

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Over the course of the year’s House plays, boys operated atmospheric lighting and sound designs, and helped to construct ambitious set pieces. Edos Herwegh Vonk (Newlands), David Liu (Bradbys) and Dylan Winward (Lyon’s) brought energy and diligence to their roles as Senior Technicians for the Theatre Production Crew.

The year’s Junior Rattigan Production, which started as a series of online workshops in February, was finally presented in June. The chosen play, A Midsummer Night’s Dream, was also a wonderful showcase for the performing talents of a large cast of Shell and Remove boys. Alison O’Neill’s production was a riot of colour and enchantment, with the ‘Shell fairy band’ overtaking the Ryan Theatre’s auditorium and dangling acrobatically from rope ladders above the stage. Kit Henson (The Park) gave an accomplished comic performance as Bottom.

Netanel Lawrence-Ojo and Jasper Smallwood (both The Knoll) were commanding as Oberon and Titania respectively; Max Morgan (Lyon’s) was a mischievous Puck. Maxi Farah (The Park), Andrew Arthur (The Knoll), Fred Hewer and Jack Scott (both The Park) were by turns furious and infatuated as the quartet of lovers.

The Knoll House Play, Rope

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Junior Rattigan Society production, A Midsummer Night’s Dream

The Jeremy Lemmon Project was established in 2019 with proceeds from the School’s gala performance of Twelfth Night at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre, to support drama training, creative collaboration and access to higher education across maintained secondary schools in the London Borough of Harrow.

2021 saw the second iteration of the project, with students from Bentley Wood High School, Nower Hill High School and Whitmore High School joining Harrow boys in this year’s company – working practically on Shakespeare with the mentoring of actors from the Globe.

Disruption to rehearsal was of course a challenge, but a combination of group and individual coaching sessions launched the project online in the spring, with an ambitious and varied monologue-sharing in March. When the group could finally meet in person in the Summer term, the strong ensemble dynamic was already established, and a glorious sharing of extracts from A Midsummer Night’s Dream in June was the first performance to take place to a live audience in the Sam Wanamaker Playhouse on the South Bank.

– Adam Cross, Director of Drama

HDT part-funded the Jeremy Lemmon Project.

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Jeremy Lemmon Project at Shakespeare’s Globe

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lthough the Covid pandemic brought unprecedented challenges, there is no doubt that the music scene at Harrow was as vibrant and healthy as ever. Excellent results were sustained, and we continued to send boys to the top institutions to further their musical education.

On return in September 2020, we had to identify spaces suitable for the safe delivery of individual tuition. The teaching of woodwind, brass and singing had to take place in rooms where there was enough room for Covid protocols to be met, so we had to use larger spaces, including Speech Room, the OH Room and Chapel.

During lockdown, we wanted boys to be given scope to develop their musical talents individually, so we did not take up screen time with online ensemble work. The boys returned to the Hill bursting with enthusiasm for making music together, and the first few weeks of the Autumn term saw ensembles come together again to work hard for the Commemoration Concert. It was very moving to hear our young musicians perform in orchestras, bands and choirs once more and, despite

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Big Band Concert

Mortimer Singer Prizes

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Glees and XIIs

Commemoration Concert

Commemoration Concert

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the ever-changing Covid protocols, we sought to keep ensembles going.

We provided regular opportunities for boys to submit performances from home for pre-recorded concerts, as well as opportunities to compete in some of the traditional competitions. Concerts resumed with near normality in September, and small subsets of the choirs performed in Chapel.

The boys worked incredibly hard for Glees and XIIs and we managed to run this event so that all boys could watch it in Houses, with only small numbers present in Speech Room.

Remembrance was celebrated with the showing of a poignant film largely produced in-house, thanks to the work of the department. A full Carol Service was pre-recorded and this featured members of

CONCERTO CONCERT PROGRAMME

■ Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 61 by Beethoven

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Allegro ma non troppo – Joseph Wragg (The Grove) Rondo. Allegro – Julian Chan (The Head Master’s) ■ Concerto for Flute and Strings, Op 45 by Arnold Hadrian Ho (The Head Master’s) ■ Allegro from Trumpet Concerto in Eb major, Hob VIIe:1 by Haydn Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) ■ Adagio – Moderato from Cello Concerto in E minor, Op 85 by Elgar Ruairi Pringle (The Head Master’s) ■ Allegro non troppo from Violin Concerto in D major, Op 77 by Brahms Jon Yuan (The Head Master’s) ■ Andante sostenuto from Piano Concerto No 2 in G minor, Op 22 by Saint-Saëns Mark Liu (Druries) ■ Allegro from Piano Concerto No 2 in F major, Op 102 by Shostakovich Daniel Sandell (Moretons) ■ Fine from Concertino for Timpani, Percussion and Strings by Panufnik Hassan Hammad (The Park) and Henry To (The Grove)

the Byron Consort, Chapel and Harmony Choirs and the Brass Ensemble. The Christmas Celebrations concluded with mini-carol services led by a socially distanced Chapel Choir, and every boy was able to participate in singing carols round the Christmas tree in Bill Yard. In January, everything moved back online. We project that by the end of 2021, 3,500 minutes of boys’ performances will be available online.

Mass gatherings for singing were always going to be a problem. The School XII recorded a programme for Harrow Association Songs in October, and a larger group of senior boys (with all Houses represented) came together to record Churchill Songs. When we were unable to return to School in January, it seemed that this great tradition of Harrow songs might be imperilled. During the start of the Summer term, however, the Director of Music rehearsed each House separately in Speech Room for 40 minutes to hear boys sing one verse of the most popular 20 songs. The boys loved this, and their act of singing together as a House and raising the roof was a joy to behold.

The boys came up with some excellent ways to keep the whole community involved with music. The Guild’s Desert Island Disc Series regularly achieved large

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listening figures, as did the Buck Society’s weekly podcasts.

When live concerts with small audiences resumed, a particular highlight before half-term was the Byron Consort’s performance in St Pancras Church as part of the London Festival of Contemporary Church Music.

In the second half of the Summer term, we sought to offer boys the usual opportunities for music making, and the chance to catch up on things they missed.

The boys produced some excellent performances in the House Instrumental Competitions, Music Prize Finals, ABRSM examinations, performances on Speech Day, Big Band Concerts, an astonishing Concerto Evening and workshops on Handel’s Messiah.

– David Woodcock, Director of Music

Smouha Chamber Music Competition

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CHAPEL THE SCHOOL 2020–21 is an academic year we shall not forget. Nonetheless it was a season when I was filled with gratitude for the way the staff worked so hard to keep the School delivering a world-class education under the severest of restrictions. I was also thankful to Fr James and Fr Stuart for the way they adapted their ministry to the challenge of offering sacred space and opportunities for worship during the year.

The underpinning goal of the Chaplaincy throughout the year was to promote opportunity for prayer and worship while providing ongoing, and online, pastoral support. Messages and services were produced each Sunday with a new Stream channel – Chapel Word.

Short messages about life and faith, hope and love were recorded all over the Hill.

From the highest point in Harrow, the roof of St Mary’s, we looked down over London, paralleling Jesus gazing down on Jerusalem during his temptation. Homilies by the School lake evoked memories of the Rabbi from Nazareth calming the storm on the sea of Galilee. Whether on the Sunley, in the Hill Shop, or on the wondrous 8th tee, each week we continued to open the ancient scriptures and, mysteriously, like a conduit, something of the Spirit of God was imparted to the human soul. We were delighted with the hundreds of ‘hits’ and even, on occasion, found Chapel messages trending!

Innovation, as in all times of struggle, was important. We missed some timehonoured occasions, but we also found new ways to gather. One highlight was certainly the introduction of a stunning Christmas tree and a double gathering of boys singing Christmas carols in Bill Yard. It was a particularly moving occasion to hear the boys’ voices as they sang so heartily.

We certainly hope that this event will become a Harrow tradition for the future.

– Fr Nic Tivey, Lead Chaplain

ST MARY’S CHURCH The School year began with some optimism that the lockdown of the previous year was behind us. In the event, although a full Autumn term proved possible, it was conducted under restricted circumstances, meaning that the weekly services at St Mary’s were spread over a fortnight with three Houses attending on each of the four days available. The Eucharist at 8am on

Sundays remained suspended for parish and School alike. Nonetheless, a programme of reflection and worship continued both in church and online. The annual Commemoration of the Founder remained possible, kept by both John Lyon School and Harrow with visits to the tomb of John Lyon. In a rather moving innovation, the socially distanced John Lyon School services concluded with every boy walking past the tomb before leaving the church. In the case of Harrow, Choral Evening Prayer was held in a similar –

though distanced – manner to recent years, with the Head of School laying a wreath on the tomb.

As the restrictions resulted in an entirely online Spring term, Founder’s Day became an online event with a reflection recorded at the grave of Montagu Butler. Indeed, in finding innovative and interesting venues for such recordings, it has been possible to remind oneself of the rich and deep connection between St Mary’s and the School. The north side clerestory windows, sadly too high to be fully appreciated, tell the story of the founding of the School, many of the memorials on the walls are to beaks and OHs, not least to the Drury family in the Anselm Chapel, and the churchyard is the final resting place of many Giants of Old and their mentors, among whom are Montagu Butler, Ralph Moore, who was Head Master during the Second World War and only Head Master to have died in office, Edgar Stogdon, a former Vicar, beak and Missioner of the Harrow Club, the Revd Francis Rendall, after whom Rendalls is named, and Edward Bowen, author of Forty Years On and better known outside the School as being a member of the very first team to win the FA Cup. Dr Wood referred to the Chapel as a “biography in stone”; St Mary’s is no less so!

– Fr James Power, Vicar of St Mary’s Church

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CONSERVATION The School estate is blessed with many ponds. Some have been created as attractive features of House gardens while others have a more practical role in holding the water that drains from the School fields to prevent flooding.

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ll of them enhance the biodiversity of the estate. Ponds require management in order to hold back the process of ecological succession and maintain their aquatic nature. One of the key tasks for Conservation this year was to remove silt and vegetation, such as reedmace, clogging up the ponds, and to fell small trees on the margins to allow more light in. The local dragonfly and damselfly populations seemed to benefit from our efforts, judging by the numbers recorded in the summer. It was a delight to see broad-bodied chasers, with their striking blue abdomens, on the pond below Lyon’s for the first time.

While we managed to plant up a small section of hedgerow on the Farm with blackthorn and hazel before the end of the autumn, lockdown in the new year put paid to further planting. Boys were encouraged to explore their local patches while stuck at home and get involved with the RSPB’s Big Garden Birdwatch. They

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Lyon’s pond

School Farm

were also sent pictures and videos of the seasonal changes taking place in Harrow as winter turned slowly into spring.

There were no new recruits to Conservation in the summer since the Removes had many weeks of cadet training to catch up on. However, in Expeditions Week, a small number of boys assisted with hosting visits to the Farm by

groups of primary school pupils. Following a successful model established in the summer of 2019, the boys led the children and accompanying adults on tours around the farmyard, fields and Park Lake, conducting activities along the way. We hope this collaboration with local schools can develop in the future.

– Nick Keylock, Master-in-Charge

A Gold group takes a break on Illgill Head in the Lake District

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THE DUKE OF EDINBURGH’S AWARD BRONZE Twenty Harrovians completed the Bronze Award; between them they pledged to contribute over 306 hours of volunteering at School, in the community and at home during the pandemic. Over 72 hours were spent coaching or tutoring younger siblings or pupils online. One boy became a social media volunteer for St John’s Ambulance and many continued to develop their coaching and leadership skills through the Harrow Rifle Corps. For their skills section, several boys developed their creativity and made art, played musical instruments and helped with School drama productions.

Others turned to sport, caring for animals and learning to cook. Some used the physical section to develop their knowledge and skills in team sports such as rugby, football, basketball and hockey. Many pledged to keep fit by developing home fitness routines or using the gym, and others developed their skills in individual sports such as fencing, skiing and squash.

All boys undertook a practice expedition and qualifying expedition in the summer.

They travelled to Tring and enjoyed the different experiences offered to them when journeying through the Chilterns on foot, with every boy making it to the top of the Ivinghoe Beacon and achieving the expedition aim.

SILVER During Expeditions Week, 65 boys from the Fifth Form took part in the practice and qualifying expeditions for The Duke of Edinburgh’s Silver Award. They travelled first to the Chiltern Hills for acclimatisation and navigation practice. The boys threw themselves into the challenge, making occasional navigational mistakes but

learning from them. They were ably assisted by a team of beaks who trained them in the skills they would need on the qualifying expedition.

The morning after, we travelled to the Black Mountains in Wales, where boys had an opportunity to show what they had learned. Based across three different campsites, the boys walked up on the ridges of that area, enjoying beautiful views of the Welsh landscape. The days were long and tiring, but they stayed in good spirits, and certainly earned their gas-stove-cooked dinners at the end of the day.

The weather was a challenge. Boys had been expecting rain, but in the end were fortunate to get a lot of sunshine, which meant they quickly learned the importance of staying hydrated. Each group worked very well together, supporting each other through the hard parts and enjoying the good parts.

GOLD At the end of term, 34 Lower Sixth boys travelled to the Lake District to complete the expedition element of the Gold Award.

The trip in the summer included both the practice and qualifying aspects of the

One group make some new friends in Langdale

Making steep descent by Wetherlam Edge to their wild camp

expedition, which were undertaken back-to-back. This meant the boys, and beaks, faced seven consecutive days of walking and wild camping, much of it in testing weather conditions, and all of it in classic British mountain terrain.

Their routes took them through deep glaciated valleys such as Langdale and Wasdale, and over many of the highest peaks in England – with some groups even scaling the biggest giant, Scafell Pike itself.

The boys were entirely self-sufficient, carrying all their food from day one and sourcing clean water from fast-moving becks and gills above the fell wall. They showed great skills of campcraft in selecting discreet and beautiful wild-camp locations, with particular highlights found in Dovedale and remote Langstrath.

The boys faced various challenges throughout the trip with fortitude and enthusiasm, and they all successfully completed the expedition. The external assessor summarised this year’s cohort as ‘probably the most committed, pleasant and resourceful’ he had come across.

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HARROW RIFLE CORPS The Harrow Rifle Corps’ training year achieved a great deal despite the obvious restrictions in place.

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he contingent paraded throughout the Autumn term by implementing House Platoons to facilitate training within secure bubbles. These mixed-service platoons engaged in a wide range of military skills and adventurous training, making use of all the grounds and facilities on offer. Cadets were able to use the climbing wall, endurance course, swimming pool and rifle range while also receiving training focused on drill, skill at arms, navigation, first aid and fieldcraft. Cadets completing the APC (Basic) Syllabus were able to progress through their training under the direction of excellent Cadet NCOs and impressively committed and adaptable CFAVs. Cadets completing the APC Syllabus (Advanced) Special to Arm Infantry were introduced to fire and manoeuvre, contact drills and section attacks on the School grounds, which laid an excellent foundation for the contingent summer camp hosted in Norfolk during Expeditions Week in June.

Ceremonial events were necessarily adjusted in line with restrictions. Cadets paraded on Remembrance Sunday without spectators and a recording was made of the event. Standards were exceptionally high and the whole School was able to watch this recording in an act of private remembrance.

Once forced to cease on-the-ground training between January and March, the contingent maintained momentum online.

APC Syllabus (Advanced) Cadets received bespoke training on the Methods of Instruction cadre, which culminated in a range of excellent lessons delivered to APC (Basic) cadets. The remainder of the contingent participated in a range of leadership training under the direction of

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CFAVs, senior cadets and external lecturers including Old Harrovians, serving and veteran personnel.

Cadets were thrilled to participate in the Ansell Bowl Competition during the Summer term, which saw outstanding turn out, command by senior cadets and exceptional feats of endurance. The Park were victorious in the Drill Competition and capitalised on this success to win the Endurance Event and the overall Ansell Bowl Competition, with Newlands and Lyon’s taking well-earned second and third places.

The Honourable Artillery Company Sword of Honour was awarded to SUO Jack Gosden (Lyon’s), who has embodied the Army’s Values and Standards throughout his time in the Harrow Rifle Corps and is a shining example of selfless commitment and exemplary standards to the junior cadets. The Harrow Rifle Corps is proud that SUO Gosden achieved an Army Scholarship alongside UO Peter Cartwright (The Grove). These cadets continue to uphold the fine tradition of the HRC and will make outstanding officers in the future.

– Piers Lemoine, Master-in-Charge

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SHAFTESBURY ENTERPRISE The vision of Shaftesbury Enterprise is to give every young person in our community, irrespective of background, the chance to thrive and achieve their full potential, find fulfilment, go on to have a successful adult life and contribute positively to society.

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e aim to achieve this by addressing some key challenges: improving educational attainment through appropriate academic intervention at primary and secondary school; improving life outcomes through offering diverse co-curricular and enrichment opportunities; supporting mental and physical wellbeing; and helping individuals to access further and higher education or employment.

In 2020–21, Shaftesbury Enterprise delivered a programme that offered significant support to young people facing the greatest barriers to progress, particularly in light of the Covid pandemic. We raised and donated almost £500,000 to support 10,000 young people through projects to help those who faced the most acute need in particularly vulnerable communities.

Projects funded through Shaftesbury Enterprise with Harrow International Schools IntoUniversity After-school sessions for students from vulnerable communities to help them catch up with learning lost because of the Covid pandemic, and help in applying to university.

Place2Be Support for children in seven schools in Hillingdon and Slough who face challenges such as bereavement, bullying, domestic violence and family breakdown, including long-term, one-to-one counselling for children with the most immediate mental health needs.

Harrow Carers Three new weekly groups: one focused on increasing academic attainment and two groups on promoting mental wellbeing for carers aged 16–18, and, in collaboration

Pupils from local schools visited the School

with Harrow College, weekly face-to-face sessions on moving into employment or further education.

Aldridge Foundation A programme of one-to-one tutoring and coaching for pupils at Sudell Primary School whose existing learning gaps have widened during the COVID-19 pandemic, to ensure that these children, who may have difficult backgrounds and been disproportionately affected by the pandemic, have the same chance to catch up academically and thrive as every child in the UK.

Westside Young Leaders Academy (WYLA) WYLA provides support and early intervention for Black and Ethnic Minority participants who are at risk of

Local groups used the School’s facilities

underachieving at school and of participating in criminal and anti-social behaviour. The WYLA Raise the Bar programme aims to address the personal and systemic barriers that undermine participants’ development and attainment, and offers enriching activities designed to teach key leadership skills, improve confidence and self-esteem, raise aspirations, improve presentation skills and develop a ‘can-do’ attitude, particularly for at-risk individuals.

MyYard

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MyYard targets young people aged 11–18 years who live in temporary accommodation and social housing on the Grange Farm Estate in South Harrow. On two days a week, a MyYard youth worker works with individuals who need support to fulfil their academic potential by addressing their lack of motivation, engagement with and success in education.

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Magic Breakfast The Magic Breakfast project removes morning hunger as a barrier to learning in two schools in the boroughs of Harrow and Brent by providing a free, healthy breakfast for all pupils who want one. Each partner school (where 35% or more of pupils must be eligible for free school meals) receives regular deliveries of nutritious food, and the support of a School Partner to help them optimise their provision so that every child who needs to can access a healthy breakfast without barrier or stigma.

Young Brent Foundation (YBF) YBF strives to mitigate the negative impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the mental health of young people in the African and Asian (Diaspora) and Minority Ethnic (AAME) population of particularly vulnerable communities on three estates in Brent by providing culturally appropriate counselling and therapeutic services to improve their emotional wellbeing and resilience.

Harrow supported young people from the local area

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

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rrangements for the 2020 Long Ducker had to be adapted because of the Covid pandemic. It took place over two days, with each House having a different start time and following an 8km route entirely within School grounds. Members of Newlands, Elmfield and West Acre took to the fields on the Friday afternoon. They ran with great spirit, despite the tough course and the unusual circumstances. The weather forecast for the Saturday morning, when the nine remaining Houses were scheduled to run, promised a torrential downpour. The first House away in the staggered start managed to dodge the worst of the weather but, over the course of the day, routes had to be changed and emergency marshalling procedures implemented due to the rain and, by the time the final House, Bradbys, ventured out they were faced with a course where falling over was inevitable.

The half-marathon event involved three gruelling laps of the course and was run by over 50 boys in the Sixth Form.

A new event was the Hempstall Dash, a 1km timed segment mid-way through the course.

Those who were keener to swim had the choice of swimming either 5km (200 lengths) or 10km (400 lengths). Some boys in the Fifth Form, Remove and Shell opted to try the Short Double Ducker involving the 8km run and the 5km swim. A few Sixth Form boys bravely attempted the

LONG DUCKER BIKE RIDE The 2020 Long Ducker Bike Ride comprised a long (100 miles), medium (70 miles) and short route (40 miles). A fantastic turnout of 120 cyclists of all abilities took part in one of these three fully supported rides starting and finishing at Harrow. It was a great day of cycling with beautiful weather but with significantly more hills than in the previous year. Nearly £20,000 was raised to support vulnerable young people in north-west London.

Long Double Ducker of a half-marathon run and a 10km swim. William Tate (The Knoll) was the only competitor to achieve the coveted Double Ducker tie, completing both events in tie-gaining times.

Participants in this year’s event raised over £175,500, which was shared between Young Harrow Foundation, the Harrow Club and local charities.

RESULTS

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1st Tom Emery (Moretons) 00:30:21 2nd Tom Hobbs (Newlands) 00:32:43 3rd Julian Abass (Elmfield) 00:33:21 Fastest Shell Freddie Emery (Moretons) 00:36:30 Fastest Remove Julian Abass (Elmfield) 00:33:21 Fastest Fifth Form Tom Emery (Moretons) 00:30:21 Fastest Lower Sixth Felix Majumdar (The Knoll) 00:34:01 Fastest Upper Sixth Jude Brankin-Frisby (Newlands) 00:34:51

1st Tom Emery (Moretons) 00:03:31 2nd Tom Hobbs (Newlands) 00:03:40 3rd Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) 00:03:52

5km swim 1st Nick Finch (Newlands) 01:05:56

10km swim 1st Maxwell Brooks (West Acre) 02:11:07

Short Double Ducker 1st Henry Gray (Lyon’s) 2nd St John Smith (Newlands) 3rd Alexander Moore (Lyon’s)

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Long Double Ducker 1st George Rates (Newlands) 04:29:51

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LONG DUCKER – WHERE THE MONEY WENT Summer programme of activities for young people in Harrow (£31,000) Nearly 800 young people took part in 16 projects that offered activities, learning and free lunches. Support was provided for young carers, refugees, victims of sexual violence, young people faced with the threat of gang violence and those suffering mental health crises.

IGNITE Trust The IGNITE Trust believes that a healthy community draws people to it, changes individuals and gives them the power to change their community for the better, so they build communities of change around young people’s interests and needs.

The IGNITE Targeted Peer Leaders’ training course engaged young people aged 14–25 in Harrow who are involved in, or at-risk of involvement in, youth violence and the criminal justice system. These young people are among the most marginalised and excluded in society, often experiencing multi-dimensional disadvantage incorporating poverty, homelessness, learning difficulties, mental health issues, poor academic achievement, lack of confidence, leaving care and few opportunities.

The course gave them the opportunity to learn about and develop leadership skills.

The young people who took part grew in confidence and self-esteem, which helped them to make positive choices and improve their ability to tackle challenges in their lives. They also Improved their employability skills including communication, teamwork, problem solving, perseverance and leadership.

Build Back Better (£115,000) Build Back Better is a campaign to help young people find their feet after the Covid lockdowns. Through the projects we funded, nearly 1,500 young people were helped to survive the lockdowns and thrive over the following eight months.

We awarded grants to 24

Long Ducker Bike Ride

organisations running programmes covering the five main issues identified as affecting young people in Harrow: youth violence, mental health problems, unemployment, inequality and a lack of physical activity.

Kids Can Achieve (KCA) KCA provides services for children and young people in Harrow with learning disabilities, and their families. They support children aged 5–25, including those with complex and multiple disabilities. Their core services are holiday playschemes, an after-school club, a Saturday club, an outreach and one-to-one support service, and family support and therapies. Long Ducker funds paid for a support worker for KCA to help them through the lockdown.

■ increase the number of clubs they run to six;

■ extend their late-night support project to cover clubs in Chelsea, Hammersmith and Fulham; ■ launch a daytime programme for young people with behavioural issues who would otherwise be excluded from school; and ■ provide over 100 laptops for young people without access to a computer at home for online schooling.

Shaftesbury Enterprise Partners (£50,000+) A significant portion of this money helped foundations and schools offer online provision to young people who would not otherwise be able to access an online curriculum. Funds also went to organisations such as Harrow Carers and Refuge to help young people whose difficulties were made almost unbearable by the pandemic.

Lumina

Harrow Club (£60,000+) Since 1883, the Harrow Club (founded by a former Head Master and a group of Old Harrovians) has been anchored in the local community, providing some of the most marginalised young people in West London with opportunities that enable them to maximise their life chances and enhance their personal development. Long Ducker funds helped them:

Our Lumina project providing tuition for children in care continued to grow, with 40 regular online lessons taking place with children in care in the London boroughs of Harrow, Ealing and Barnet.

A network of teachers from five schools took part in this scheme, giving hundreds of looked-after children, of both primary and secondary age, access to technology and extra support from a qualified educator in a subject/area of their choosing.

Our online Lumina university access course to help hundreds of Year 12 students from north-west London to gain places at top universities also ran in an online form in July.

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pear equips young people aged 16-24 with confidence, motivation and the vital skills they need to succeed in longterm employment through a six-week programme of group and one-to-one sessions to increase self-belief and readiness for work, as well as practical support and help with job seeking.

Fifteen Lower Sixth Form Harrovians were chosen to attend an online induction process in the Autumn term, led by coaches from the Spear Harrow Centre. The sessions for the term were all to be online, and Harrovians were to model confident communication, professional behaviour and mindfulness of others.

The sessions, which took place on Tuesday and Thursday afternoons, covered a broad range of life skills, interview etiquette, presentation skills and careers. In addition to volunteering, six Harrovians acted as Spear committee members, with the additional role of organising the rota so each volunteer would be able to play a full part in the Spear programme. The young people who attended the sessions were always engaged and willing to improve their skillset, and the Harrovian volunteers gained a better understanding of those whose lives were very different from their own and were keen to support the course attendees in achieving their life goals.

– Brandon Chang (Druries)

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lthough boys from Newlands were unable to visit Woodlands School for children with severe disabilities, Woodlands benefited from money raised through Shaftesbury Enterprise. They bought an Acheeva bed, a specialist piece of equipment that allows children with profound physical disabilities to be moved into different positions while still being fully supported. The Acheeva bed can position them at the same height as their classmates, rather than lying on cushions on the floor, allowing them to take a more active part in lessons and to feel less isolated.

The school also refitted one of its resource spaces, predominantly for children with a diagnosis of autism. The new Harmony Room provides a calming and therapeutic environment where children can unwind, and which will accommodate their sensory needs.

Woodlands School bought an Acheeva bed with money raised through Shaftesbury Enterprise

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he Shaftesbury Lecture, ‘The Rashford Effect’, was given by Nabs Suma and Serge Betsen (The Park 19853), who provided the audience with an insight into the way their success in rugby gave them the skills to have a positive effect on the lives of others. Nabs Suma began his rugby career with Wasps and earned numerous accolades. At the end of his ten-year career, he joined InterContinental Exchange as a cocoa trading specialist, which allowed him to create several commodity-based businesses from exporting cocoa to developing wholesale chocolate for Fairtrade chocolate brands. He is currently a Trustee for Wasps Legends Charitable Foundation, which aims to make a positive difference to individuals through the character and collective spirit of the Wasps family. He emphasised how teamwork is vital for success in sport and business, and how the leadership skills learnt at School will help Harrovians in their endeavours to support others.

Serge Betsen is a renowned French rugby player, considered one of the best flankers of his generation. At the end of his rugby career, he established the Serge Betsen Academy, which aims to help underprivileged children, especially in Cameroon. Mr Betsen described how, throughout his rugby career, many people

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gave him confidence to improve in rugby; in turn, the academy he founded has now helped 80,000 children through education and sport. The principal message from the speakers was that Harrovians, who have every advantage and means to be successful, should try to make these things possible for other people too.

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ollowing last year’s successful participation in the annual Hwa Chong Global Young Leaders Convention, which was a virtual event because of the pandemic, Haiwei Li (Bradbys), Hugo Anderson (Newlands) and Justin Chan (Druries) represented Harrow at the 2021 conference involving young people from schools around the world.

The four-day online event featured several distinguished guest speakers including Mr Kausikan, former Ambassador of Singapore to Russia, and the current President of Singapore, Madame Halimah Yacob.

The conference theme, ‘Re-imagining, Building, Uniting’, was inevitably related to the pandemic, which had revealed both the strengths and weaknesses of the existing systems in tackling global crises and shown that countries need to do much more collectively to move towards a more equitable society.

Students were assigned to one of ten fictional countries and tasked with designing solutions for achieving a more equitable vaccine distribution scheme that would allow all communities to benefit from this significant scientific breakthrough.

The conference concluded with a Memorandum of Understanding between all parties, much to everyone’s satisfaction.

– Haiwei Li (Bradbys)

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ATHLETICS After a year without competition or training, athletes and coaches alike were understandably keen to make use of Harrow’s wonderful facilities once again.

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ith two untested year groups, much work had to be done, but the healthy size of the squad that signed up ensured a decent depth of untapped talent with which to work. Various competitions had to be cancelled or reformatted as everyone wrestled with what ‘Covid secure’ might mean for athletics but, once resolved, a near-normal season took place, with excellent results again. All full-fixture Saturday matches were won – further testament to the courage, commitment and talent of the squad. More than 100 boys competed for the School over the season and Harrow athletes largely overcame the gap and made ground up fast.

The incredibly able and well-respected team Captain, Jack Gosden (Lyon’s) led by example and additionally completed a vast amount of 400m coaching himself. Indeed, I am indebted to all the wonderful coaching staff who once again did a magnificent job under very difficult circumstances and brought out the best in every single athlete, ensuring a steady stream of weekly victories.

– Gary White, Master-in-Charge

THE GUY BUTLER SHIELD Harrow was very pleased to welcome six other schools back to our track to contest the Guy Butler Shield. This event could not take place in 2020 and, with two year groups untried, it was not at all clear who might win this competition in 2021.

St Paul’s was unable to attend but Coopers’ Coborn proved to be a more than adequate replacement strength-wise, and the afternoon developed into a tense tussle between Harrow, Eton and Coopers’. At the end, the final result depended on the last few relays and, when the overall points were tallied, Harrow had retained the Shield (for the 11th time in 12 years) by just a single point.

The Juniors and Intermediates both finished second (in spite of Intermediate numbers being significantly down due to a number of Removes and Fifth Form in Covid isolation) and the Seniors won their age group.

Numerous records were broken on the day: Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) broke the 100m and 200m Shield records (10.77s and 21.96s respectively), while Jack Gosden broke the electronically timed 400m record, clocking 50.76s.

FINAL SCORES 1st Harrow 2nd Coopers’ Coborn 3rd Eton 4th Marlborough

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Harrow won the Guy Butler Shield for the 11th time in 12 years

The National Championships (ESAA Track and Field) were run a little differently due to Covid restrictions, with fields being limited to the top 16 ranked athletes in England for each discipline. This made it harder than ever to gain County selection to be able to participate at these championships, not only because the bar was so high, but additionally because athletes had to have competed at accredited events (external to school competitions) in order to gain a ranking. In spite of this, four athletes were selected: Jack Gosden for the senior 400m, Iyanu Ademuwagun (Druries) for senior shot put, Leo Lord (Lyon’s) for junior discus and Cameron Knight (Newlands) for junior long jump. It is pleasing to be able to report that Jack Gosden finished sixth, Iyanu Ademuwagun eighth, Leo Lord 11th and Cameron Knight 11th.

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INTER-HOUSE COMPETITION After four age-group inter-House competitions, including an abbreviated relay competition, the following trophies were awarded:

TROPHIES AWARDED Yearlings 100m Cameron Knight (Newlands)​​ Torpids 100m Ayomide Awolesi (The Head Master’s) House 100m Remi Jokosenumi (Lyon’s) House High Jump George Davies (The Head Master’s) House Middle Distance Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) Yearlings Victor Ludorum Cameron Knight (Newlands) Torpids Victor Ludorum Ayomide Awolesi (The Head Master’s) House Victor Ludorum Ed Garuba (Newlands) & Iyanu Ademuwagun (Druries) Yearlings Inter-House Newlands Torpids Inter-House Newlands House Inter-House Lyon’s Inter-House Relay Newlands Overall Inter-House Newlands

CLAY PIGEON SHOOTING It was a quiet year for clay pigeon shooting, with shooting grounds nationwide closed for months and an overall reduction in school fixtures due to Covid restrictions.

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evertheless, in the Autumn term of 2020, Harrow shot very competitively at the Barbury Shooting Ground in Wiltshire in a competition organised by Marlborough College.

Unfortunately, Harrow’s annual Fido May Trophy Competition could not take place in February 2021.

In April 2021, over 60 socially distanced parents, sons and beaks took part in the Parents and Sons Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition at the E J Churchill shooting ground. This was a most sociable event at the end of a long lockdown, blessed with fine weather and excellent company.

In June, the Inter-House Clay Pigeon Shooting Competition took place under very hot (28C) and sunny conditions (on the previous occasion in March 2019 it

had snowed). The Captains of Clay Pigeon Trophy was awarded to Druries, whose team broke a total of 80 out of 128 clays. The Head Master’s came in with a very close second – 78/128; Rendalls came third with 67/128 and Lyon’s finished fourth with 66/128.

On a slightly harder course than in 2019, the competition High Gun title was a draw between Peter Peganov (Druries) and Archie Young (Rendalls), who broke 25/32 clays – which was an excellent result on this course.

On 22 June, the Harrow A Team took part in the School Notices Competition at Holland & Holland (this event was postponed from 19 March 2020). Harrow took eighth place in the Senior event and fifth place in the Flush competition.

Clay pigeon shooting at Harrow becomes more popular every year and we have continued with our weekly trips to the E J Churchill ground at West Wycombe Estate when possible.

– Damian Cox, Master-in-Charge

Boys climbed at Harrison’s Rocks in Sussex

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CLIMBING Climbing continued to go from strength to strength, with over 20 boys regularly attending Marmot meets during the week, led by Captain of Marmots, Hugo Heffer (Elmfield).

CRICKET The 1st XI finished the season with a record to be proud of, winning ten games and losing five. They started the season in impressive form, thrashing Hampton by 163 runs and Wellington by 98 runs on the Sixth Form Ground.

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ohnny Connell (Rendalls) and captain Tej Sheopuri (Lyon’s) both passed 50 in these opening matches. James Nelson (Bradbys), Jasper Blackwood (Elmfield) and Cameron Ellis (Rendalls) all chipped in with regular wickets to blow away the Hampton and Wellington top orders.

Malvern and Tonbridge were next on the fixture card and these sides would prove a tougher test for the 1st XI. Despite a sublime 100 from Connell (probably the knock of the season), Harrow came second to a very strong Malvern by two wickets and went down again to Tonbridge a few days later on The Head. Veer Patel’s (The Knoll) 64 set Tonbridge a tough chase, but sadly the Harrow bowlers couldn’t find their line and length and Tonbridge crept over the line to win another tight game.

With the Lord’s fixture fast approaching, the 1st XI needed to regain some winning rhythm and they did just that against Bedford. After being set a challenging 229 in 40 overs, it was Connell and Ellis who stepped up and dismantled the Bedford attack, with Connell passing 100 once again. Harrow finished the victors by nine wickets and should have added another win to the card against Charterhouse, only to be denied almost certain victory by

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he School wall continued to pose challenging projects for even the most able, and the re-opening of the local HarroWall bouldering centre was a welcome opportunity to get back climbing off-site again.

Easing of restrictions allowed two domestic expeditions onto rock during the Summer term: southern sandstone at Harrison’s Rocks in Sussex and northern grit at Birchen Edge in the Peak District. Tremendous fun was had by all, with some boys enjoying outdoor rock climbing for the first time.

– Simon Sampson, Master-in-Charge

another May deluge towards the end of the game. The MCC game was also lost to inclement weather without a ball being bowled and this left the Harrow Wanderers as the final match before the XI travelled to HQ. With Speech Day delayed due to Covid restrictions, there was less glamour than usual to the Wanderers fixture, but the standard of cricket on show was as impressive as ever. Lalit Bose (The Head Master’s 2008³) bludgeoned the 1st XI attack to all parts to set a target of 217 from 40 overs and the 1st XI came very close, with Max Ferreira (The Grove) smoking a splendid 100. Sadly the 1st XI fell 11 runs short, but after playing lots of high-quality cricket through April and May, entered the Lord’s match full of confidence.

LORD’S After a poor forecast earlier in the week, a swirling cloudy sky, but no rain, greeted the players as they arrived at this most magnificent of all cricket grounds, refurbished with towering new stands at the Nursery end. MCC were using the game as a practice Covid run for the forthcoming Test match, and so everyone was masked and zoned and patrolled into place, but it was the first Lord’s crowd of the season, who contributed significantly to the unique atmosphere of the day, especially when the school contingents arrived. Lord’s had prepared a strip 15 yards in from the edge of the square, which was a welcome surprise for this fixture, avoiding the usual short boundary. Eton won the toss and, inevitably in such overcast conditions and with the pitch presenting green and soft, invited Harrow to bat.

Connell looked to be positive from the start and stroked four attractive boundaries, so that Harrow got off to a flier. Twenty-five had come from the first three overs when both opening bowlers struck: Ellis was brilliantly caught at slip pushing tentatively at a wide delivery and the other Eton opener swung a ball in to Connell from left-arm over to trap him lbw half-forward.

Patel joined his captain, Tej Sheopuri, and they carefully saw off the opening attack, but the introduction of the Eton off-spinner was immediately effective as the latter tried to break free of the shackles and skied a difficult catch to mid-on; this was a

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disappointing end for a class player.

Ferreira, who had scored a brilliant attacking 100 two days before, began the rebuilding process with Patel, who was playing with calm assurance, showing respect but not wasting opportunities to score. Harrow entered the lunch break at 92-4 from 30 overs – there had been a brief delay for a rare shower and, for the first time since the start, Harrow were just beginning to get on top. After lunch, Patel continued to punish the Eton seamers with three boundaries in an over, when he was trapped in front lbw with a full and straight delivery to end a fine battling innings. Sadly, the Harrow tail fell away quickly and only managed to propel the 1st XI to 161, which on a green pitch looked 30 runs short.

The Harrow opening bowlers came up firing and Ellis induced a slash outside off-stump which was well caught by Connell at slip. The other Eton opener had hit two streaky fours when Jasper Gray (Newlands) moved one away from him for a regulation catch behind. The game was therefore well balanced, and the introduction of Connell’s accurate medium pace slowed the run-rate, and he had the Eton number 3 caught behind fencing after a patient innings. Eton began their own rebuilding process, but just as the Eton pair had completed a 50 partnership, the attacking leg-spin of Brij Sheopuri (Lyon’s) induced an edge behind for brother Tej’s third catch. Harrow

immediately bolted into life when, in his next over, a flat, accurate throw from Patel at deep square-leg beat a diving Etonian attempting a second, and two balls later, another Etonian was comprehensively bowled, and the game had now been turned on its head, with Harrow scenting an unlikely victory. Eton required 23 more runs to win with four wickets left to use, and the pressure was really on the new Eton pair.

Harrow’s 161 eventually proved to be 30 runs too few as the Eton sixth-wicket partnership saw them over the line, with the Eton captain impressing under pressure.

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ten overs of batting, and with a higher total to defend, they may well have prevailed after the moment of crisis, which produced a very watchable and exciting last 15 overs.

The 1st XI dusted themselves off over half-term and came back energised to prove how good a side they were. They did just that, winning seven of the next eight games against the Free Foresters, Whitgift, Radley, I Zingari and Oxford University (two-day).

The highlights were Brij Sheopuri’s 7-52 against the Free Foresters and Johnny Connell scoring his third century of the summer against I Zingari. Jasper Gray set the tone brilliantly throughout this period with the new ball and John Richardson (Elmfield) impressed with his off-breaks, taking 4-for on three occasions during this winning period.

These impressive results certainly confirmed the quality of the 1st XI in the summer and point to promising seasons in 2022 and beyond. Seven of the Lord’s XI will return next year and the others in the wider squad all have years to come. Fifth Formers Sheopuri, Ellis and Patel played all year, and the 1st XI squad was largely made up of Lower Sixth and Fifth Form boys due to injuries in the Upper Sixth.

The Junior Colts won ten of the 14 matches they played and reached the latter stages of the National Cup. The Colts also reached the final of the South East section of the National Cup and took full advantage of a cancelled GCSE exam programme, playing 16 fixtures throughout the Summer term. In total, 160 games against external teams were played by all teams this season (not including the 60 House fixtures), of which 90 were won. As always, however, it was the number of boys taking part that was impressive. Harrow fielded a 5th XI, Junior Colts E and F side for the first time and all these sides had the chance to represent the School in competitive fixtures.

– Johny Marsden, Master-in-Charge

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CROSS-COUNTRY After a disrupted season of hard training, and huge progress in speed and fitness, the cross-country squad were delighted to take part in two virtual races towards the end of the Spring term.

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he first was the Shrewsbury School Global 5km race, involving schools from all over the world, which the squad ran on a blustery March Saturday afternoon around the Harrow cross-country course. Cross-country captain Graham Lambert (Lyon’s) came an impressive eighth in the Senior race involving hundreds

of runners. The following weekend was the virtual edition of the South-East Schools Championships, usually hosted at Harrow.

Around a dozen schools took part, with Tom Emery (Moretons) in Fifth Form excelling this time with fifth place in the Intermediate race in an impressive time of 17:33.

FENCING The COVID-19 global pandemic meant that all fencing fixtures against other schools were cancelled and boys were left bereft of any fencing outside the Salle.

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his did not stop them from training hard, even throughout the Summer term, in a one-off extension of the season. Furthermore, within the Salle, we also completed the Paterson Inter-House Competition, with Lyon’s beating The Grove by a mere nine points in the final in a great exhibition of fencing talent.

In recognition of their steadfast commitment to the club this year, Ties were awarded to Daniel Eldridge, Sean

Jarrett, Ben Leonard (all The Grove) and William Wauchope (The Knoll). This year also saw the introduction of arm badges for fencing, in recognition of any boy who fences for the first team in a School fixture, and many were awarded to boys who played in fixtures last year.

Yujin Koshiba (Lyon’s) was an admirable and enthusiastic captain of fencing and will continue as captain next year, alongside Indi Abrams (The Grove), who was promoted to co-captain in recognition of his sterling work in the Salle, in particular during lockdown.

William Wauchope was promoted to vice-captain of Épée, in acknowledgment of his dedication to the club.

– Hamish Haldane, Master-in-Charge

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learly, it was a very disrupted season, with most matches cancelled due to the pandemic. This, however, did not affect the stoicism of the Harrovian fives players, and much fives was played internally when the boys were on site. The Grove were very dominant in the senior House fives event.

Phoenix Ashworth (The Head Master’s) and Johnny Barley (The Grove) played successfully at First Pair for the seniors, and performed well in a hastily rearranged Schools Championships at half-term in the middle of the cricket season.

– Ian Hutchinson, Cricket and Fives Coach

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GOLF The golf team enjoyed huge success in the latter part of the season after multiple disruptions to the usual friendly circuit in the autumn.

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he boys finished the season as regional champions in the Independent Schools Golf Association National Knockout and thus qualified for the National Championships at Marriott Worsley Park.

Aidan Wong (The Park), Finlay Matheson and George Webster (both Druries) scored well on the day to place Harrow ninth in the country. Wong shot 3 over par and Matheson shot 5 over par to place them 16th and 21st individually respectively.

The major highlight of the season is always the Gerald Micklem Trophy, which in 2021 was held on the New Course at Sunningdale Golf Club. Harrow have not won this most prestigious event since 2000 and have only won it four times since the competition began in 1954. The boys faced Eton in the

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s we came back for the last three weeks of the Lent term after lockdown, and despite the lack of rain and almost constant sunshine, the boys were eager to play some Harrow football. The Houses managed to play two sets of friendly matches on concurrent Sundays, and during the Sixth Form Game sessions we played a very competitive set of matches, which the boys enjoyed. Shell boys were also given a taster of the sport during the Spring term. If you would like to put an OH team together (or just join a team), please contact David Wendelken at DRW@harrowschool.org.uk.

– Chris Mann, Master-in-Charge

Gerald Micklem Trophy winners

first round and, after two matches going into playoffs, ultimately came out victors winning 3.5-1.5. In the semi-finals, we were up against a strong Charterhouse side who knocked us out of the competition last year.

Again, a playoff hole would decide the tie, with Finlay Matheson coming out on top on the 19th hole. The final saw Harrow take on Stowe, who were fresh from their victory against Harrow just two weeks previously. It

was another very tight match with everything coming down to Aidan Wong on his final hole. He clinched the victory with a remarkable birdie on the 18th hole for a historic win.

Jerome Ponniah (The Head Master’s 20013) continued to provide coaching for the squad, while Mark Arnold (PGA Professional) joined the coaching staff too.

– Joss Pinsent, Master-in-Charge

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HOCKEY Hockey enjoyed the addition of Michael Hoare to the coaching team this year, allowing pre-season sessions to take place twice a week throughout the autumn.

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Alongside this, we ran an extremely successful Torpid inter-House hockey competition in November 2020, where every House entered a team of six. Elmfield eventually took home the trophy.

The Shell inter-House hockey competition in November was won by Moretons, and the House competition, delayed to May 2021, was won by The Grove. These competitions allowed many non-hockey players to give the sport a try in a competitive context.

We had three weeks of hockey in the Spring term and, although there were no opportunities for competitive fixtures against other schools, a few internal matches were played.

– Kat Allen, Master-in-Charge

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JUDO As a close-contact sport, it was impossible to practise judo in the usual way at any stage during most of the year. Fortunately, the international judo community came together online to produce a wealth of resources and ideas for how to sustain judoka, especially those of school age.

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part from during the strictest phases of lockdown, judo clubs remained open to provide distance training, in which the component skills of judo are isolated and drilled without a partner in a variety of creative ways. Many clubs made use of so-called grappling dummies: weighted stuffed mannequins that have long been part of wrestling training and which can be thrown around a dojo and, with a bit of thought, subjected to the armlocks and strangles of contest judo too.

While the Harrow Judo Club already owned one wrestling dummy, a rush on them nationally during lockdown meant that the prospects of obtaining more in time for the return of boys to the Hill in September 2020 were quite remote. But in an almost implausible turn of events, a passing discussion about lockdown judo with a colleague over summer revealed that there were at least a dozen brand new grappling dummies discarded in the void

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Boys practised harai-goshi on the grappling dummy

space of the Sports Centre, wrapped head to toe in cellophane and lying among rubble. They had been set aside when plans for a School wrestling club had been abandoned many years ago.

Following the safe recovery of the grappling dummies, our training in the Autumn term was able to centre around their use. At over 40kg and being difficult to manipulate, just handling a dummy provides an excellent workout for judoka.

The boys enjoyed repetition training for a range of throws, meeting in groups of five at a time in the Old Squash Courts Dojo.

The conditioning of our team was visibly improved over this period and the boys’

throws were sharper and more committed.

Contact judo training for under 18s was permitted in the Summer term and boys were delighted to get to grips with one another, albeit with a partner less willing to go along with their plans. There were no inter-school or national fixtures, but we managed to keep all boys (including over 30 competitive players) involved and excited about the prospects for a return to competition.

– Matt Glossop, Master-in-Charge The Harrow Development Trust sponsors Harrow’s judo programme.

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POLO Harrow polo players managed half a term of training in the Autumn term and a full term of training and fixtures in the Summer term.

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ots of rain in May meant that the teams were not able to start playing on grass until June. The first fixture was against Eton at Guards Polo Club. Eton began the match with a half-goal advantage due to Harrow’s superior handicap. Harrow started tentatively, and the first chukka was dominated by the attacking Eton side. Yet despite their seeming control of the ball, Eton scored only once against Harrow’s tenacious challenging strategy. The second chukka saw Harrow thundering back to form and featured some brilliant mallet work from Freddie Strange (Newlands).

Ulysses Hu (The Head Master’s) scored early on, setting the tone for a tightly contested quarter. The chukka closed with Hector Rogberg (Druries) scoring in the very last second. The tensest moment of the match came in the third chukka as Eton tried to claw their way back into the running. The

teams were neck and neck, and goals were scored by both sides in close succession.

Hector Rogberg scored for Harrow, but Eton’s two goals brought the score to 3½-3. The Harrow team responded with convincing attack, and the fourth and final chukka saw the team drive forward to victory. The chukka opened with a spectacular goal from captain Marc Lindgren (West Acre). Eton scored again in this final quarter, but Ulysses Hu scored the winning goal for Harrow. The final score was 5-4 ½ to Harrow.

Also in June, Harrow played Wellington at Fifield Polo Club. Both the A and B teams competed, with the B team captained for

RACKETS In the absence of external fixtures, we ran a vibrant internal programme with over 60 boys playing.

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he highlights of the season came in the internal events. The Yearlings singles event carried over from the previous year produced a captivating final where Charlie Hope’s (Rendalls) strength narrowly triumphed over the strong racket-handling skills of Gus Stanhope (Moretons). Both boys should be proud of the high levels they have achieved.

At senior level, we had two very well contested competitions. In the Challenge Singles Racket, Tarquin Sotir (Druries) showed great progress to beat two seeded players, Jude Brankin-Frisby (Newlands) and Jonny Connell (Rendalls), on his way to the final.

In the other half of the draw, Sasha Sebag-Montefiore (The Knoll) pushed Ben Hope (Rendalls) to a final game

before narrowly losing out. The final itself was an excellent contest. Hope played superbly to get 2-0 up but Sotir showed good court craft to level at 2-2 and looked the favourite for victory.

Hope then showed real grit and upped his game to take the deciding game. He was a worthy winner and thoroughly deserved his success. Sotir, as a Fifth Former, did himself proud and will be one to watch in his Sixth Form at Harrow.

The same protagonists met in the House Doubles Final, where Rendalls (Ben Hope and Jonny Connell) secured a decisive victory over Druries (Tarquin Sotir and Finlay Matheson), who had done very well to reach the final.

We were extremely fortunate to have Dan Escott as the new Master-in-Charge of Rackets. As a former Queen’s finalist, he has a wealth of experience and knowledge to pass on to the boys.

– John Eaton, Rackets Professional

the first time by Orlando Hill (The Head Master’s). The A team won 8-6; the B team lost 6-2. The season finished with Harrow playing a mini tournament at the Vaux Park Polo Club in Somerset, where they were challenged by Millfield School and Marlborough College. Harrow had a very successful first game against Marlborough, winning 3-0. Millfield, however, had a much superior handicap to Harrow, so Harrow started with a 1½ goal advantage.

Harrow played very well, eventually losing by only half a goal, with the final score 3-2½ to Millfield.

– Darren Bell, Master-in-Charge

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RUGBY Rugby at Harrow looked very different in 2020–21 due to the changes to the game enforced by COVID-19. Contact rugby was allowed but only in short 15-minute bursts each session, so the focus of the term was on touch rugby.

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o keep competition up, the Harrow School Super League was set up for Saturdays, with all year groups in mixed teams across a variety of touch rugby leagues. Our usual weekend clashes with the likes of Wellington and Tonbridge were replaced with clashes between the Tigers and the Hawks or the Samurai against the Honey Badgers. With highlight videos at the end of each week’s play, a transfer period and a very entertaining Finals Day on the Sunley, the Super League was a great

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There was one competitive fixture against Gordon’s School, whom the Seniors played in a round-robin touch tournament at Harrow. Despite the lack of contact rugby and competitive rugby, it was a hugely useful term for the development of all the boys in various tactical and technical areas of the game.

Touch rugby allowed for lots of practice of match-type situations and plenty of individual close-skill development.

Despite the lack of competitive rugby on the field, there were some successes off the field. Two boys in the Upper Sixth gained professional contracts with their respective academies. Ricky White (The Knoll), a centre, signed with Wasps while the captain of The XV, Henry Arundell (The Knoll), signed with London Irish.

– James Melville, Master-in-Charge

Dry-slope skiing at Brentwood Ski Centre

SKIING The Harrow School ski team went from strength to strength, considering the lack of opportunity for competition during the Covid pandemic and restrictions on travel.

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he team managed to train at least once a week at Brentwood Ski Centre where the team had hours of coaching from Dan Curtis and Captain Rob Robson. The squad consisted of 46 boys from all years and, with a constant

group of eight per training session, they did very well.

During lockdown, we held various online workshops, which included ski preparation, race tactics, mental health in sport and avalanche safety, as well as an online strength and conditioning course run by Liz Robson. We hosted several guest speakers, including Olympian skiers Dave Ryding, Chemmy Alcott and Emily Sarsfield.

– Rob Robson, Master-in-Charge of Skiing

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SWIMMING Despite Covid restrictions and only two live inter-school competitions during the year, our swimmers maintained amazing momentum, breaking 40 of 58 all-time School records.

T SOCCER Inevitably, the pandemic had a considerable impact on this season’s soccer programme. The restrictions that were imposed by the FA and Department of Education led to new protocols for cleaning equipment, meeting opposition teams and even in the form of some of the in-match rule changes.

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he league, ISFA tournaments and FestiPhil were all cancelled before they could even get started. However, the determination within the School body to continue playing meant that there were still many areas in which football flourished out of the adversity of the season gone by.

In the Autumn term, the 1st XI managed to win all their games against opposition schools including impressive victories over Winchester, Kimbolton and a particularly good result to overcome Hampton School.

A trip to Queens Park Rangers’ Academy training facility at Heston proved to be the only blot of the fixture card, with QPR’s Under-18s playing impressively to record a 7-1 victory over the Harrow boys.

Regardless, the experience was a richly rewarding one for all the boys involved

and it was inspiring for many of them to see the familiar face of Max Little (Rendalls 20193) performing well in goal for QPR’s Academy side.

As the Autumn term progressed, the evolving Government guidelines restricted the number of external fixtures that were possible, so a number of internal tournaments were designed to keep the boys playing. New ‘Futsal’ tournaments were introduced for the boys in both the Autumn and Spring terms – the Chequers Cup and Super Soccer League – which were greatly enjoyed by the boys and beaks involved. Following the second lockdown we were also able to recommence the House soccer tournaments successfully, with Newlands running out as victors in the Cock House match and Torpids tournament, while Rendalls were victorious in the Yearlings competition.

In the Summer term, a series of exhibition matches took place with great success. ‘The School’, which comprised the best players from the School below the Upper Sixth, took on the ‘Upper Sixth Leavers’ with the departing Upper Sixth coming out as victors on penalties after a 2-2 draw. The Leavers team then went on to play in a game against ‘The Beaks’ which ended in a 3-3 draw.

– Dean Holt, Master-in-Charge

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wo of the records broken dated back to 2003. All bar four School records have been broken in the past five years. This is a remarkable achievement, indicative of hard work, resilience, a can-do mindset, and a team ethos of support, encouragement and care. Swimming captains Ethan Yeo (The Head Master’s), Z-Za Bencharit (Elmfield) and George Rates (Newlands), led by example and the younger years got in line behind.

This was the strongest and largest Harrow swimming team that the School has ever had, from beginners through to Olympic hopefuls. Even in lockdown, when the boys were off the Hill, online land training took place and the swimmers gained in both strength and endurance.

Virtual competitions were held with the Asian League (eight schools including Harrow Bangkok), Blackrock College in Dublin, Culford School, Abingdon School and Stewart’s Melville in Edinburgh. In all these competitions, Harrow was victorious.

We also held three internal, recordbreaking galas. Each gala had a different focus: long distance, sprint distance and middle distance.

A highlight of the season was Remove Henry Gray (Lyon’s) being selected to represent the national team of Jamaica in the Central American and Caribbean Championships in Puerto Rico. This certified him as an internationally competitive swimmer and put him in great contention for a place at the next Commonwealth Games in Birmingham in 2022.

In lieu of the cancelled National Independent Schools’ Swimming Championships, we held a virtual championships with six other schools.

Harrow beat the all-time 4x100m freestyle relay record, swimming in a time of 3:35.24, 0.02 of a second faster than the previous record.

– Rima Tremlett, Master-in-Charge

Swimming records Event Seniors 50m freestyle 100m freestyle 200m freestyle 400m freestyle 50m breaststroke 100m breaststroke 200m breaststroke 50m backstroke 100m backstroke 200m backstroke 50m butterfly 100m butterfly 200m butterfly 100m individual medley 200m individual medley 400m individual medley 4x100m relay individual medley

Time

Name

23.72

Ben Hooper (The Head Master’s 20173)

2018

51.00

Ben Hooper

2018

2.04.46

Maxwell Brooks (West Acre)

2021

4.30.91

Ethan Yeo (The Head Master’s)

2021

30.82

Ethan Yeo

2021

1.07.30

Ethan Yeo

2019

2.25.90

Ethan Yeo

2021

26.09

Ben Hooper

2018

57.91

Kyle Barrett (Druries 20073)

2008

2.23.65

Z-Za Bencharit (Elmfield)

2020

25.54

Ben Hooper

2019

55.60

Ben Hooper

2018

2.19.25

Maxwell Brooks

2021

57.71

Ben Hooper

2018

2.13.21

Andrew Hong (Lyon’s 20153)

2019

4.58.54

Maxwell Brooks

2021

1.49.80

William Rudd (The Head Master’s 20163), Thomas Khan (West Acre 20153), Andrew Hong, Ben Hooper

2018

4x50m relay freestyle

1.38.09

Kyle Barrett (Druries 20073), Connor Barrett (Druries 20073), Tristan Goodfellow (Moretons 20053), Kyle Hamilton (Newlands 20063)

2009

5km Long Ducker 10km Long Ducker

1 hr 17 sec

Andrew Hong

2019

2 hr 4 min 38 sec

Andrew Hong

2019

Torpids 50m freestyle 100m freestyle 200m freestyle 400m freestyle 50m breaststroke 100m breaststroke 200m breaststroke 50m backstroke 100m backstroke 200m backstroke 50m butterfly 100m butterfly 200m butterfly 100m individual medley 200m individual medley 400m individual medley 4x100m relay individual medley 4x50m relay freestyle Long Ducker 5km

24.4

Kyle Hamilton

2009

51.7

Nick Finch (Newlands)

2021

2.02.49

Henry Gray (Lyon’s)

2021

4.14.90

Henry Gray

2021

31.14

Mark Zeng (Elmfield)

2020

1.08.64

Luke Target (Bradbys 20083)

2009

2.31.03

Ethan Yeo (Newlands)

2021

27.87

Henry Gray

2021

1.00.62

Henry Gray

2021

2.11.63

Henry Gray

2021

25.5

Nick Finch

2021

54.73

Nick Finch

2021

2.12.56

Nick Finch

2021

1.00.28

Nick Finch

2021

2.16.57

Nick Finch

2020

4.54.48

Henry Gray

2021

1.53.62

Henry Gray, Ethan Yeo, Nick Finch, Joe Storey (Newlands)

2021

1.45.29

Henry Gray, James Rates (Newlands), Nick Finch, Joe Storey

2021

1 hr 39 sec

Maxwell Brooks

2019

Shells

25.21

Tom Pearce (Newlands)

2021

55.43

Tom Pearce

2021

2.02.92

Tom Pearce

2021

4.39.51

Tom Pearce

2021

30.89

Adam Wong (The Park)

2020

1.08.84

Adam Wong

2020

2.33.43

Adam Wong

2021

28.93

Adam Wong

2021

1.02.23

Alex P Rust (Druries 20033)

2003

2.18.51

Alex Moore (Lyon’s)

2021

27.15

Nick Finch

2020

1.00.75

Nick Finch

2021

2.29.01

Alex Moore

2021

1.03.00

Nick Finch

2020

2.20.22

Henry Gray

2020

5.41.32

Hugo Bourne (The Grove)

2021

1.57.90

Hugo Gray, Mark Zeng, Nick Finch, St John Smith (Newlands) 2020

1.46.67

Tom Pearce Adam Wong, Alex Moore, Hugo Bourne

2021

1 hr 7 min 24 sec

Nick Finch

2019

50m freestyle 100m freestyle 200m freestyle 400m freestyle 50m breaststroke 100m breaststroke 200m breaststroke 50m backstroke 100m backstroke 200m backstroke 50m butterfly 100m butterfly 200m butterfly 100m individual medley 200m individual medley 400m individual medley 4x100m relay individual medley 4x50m relay freestyle Long Ducker 5km

Year

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TENNIS We had large numbers of boys playing at all levels across the year groups. We were again able to offer advanced coaching to some of our most promising players on a weekly basis, working with former British Davis Cup player Danny Sapsford, and one of the LTA’s top coaches in Middlesex, David Emms.

The boys also got a chance to work with Luke Milligan, former GB Davis Cup player.

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he highlight of the season was the RHWM tournament where we compete against Radley, Wellington and Marlborough.

Forty-eight boys took part and Harrow won all six competitions at Senior, Junior Colts and Yearlings level. Our previous best was a win in three of the six events.

Captain of tennis Ciaran Timlin (Bradbys), one of the best players the School has produced in probably 15 years, and Thomas Cheah (The Head Master’s) were awarded their Flannels. Mostyn Fulford (The Knoll) of the Remove represented Wandsworth, who won the tennis section of the London Youth Games.

The behaviour and attitude of the boys during the season was exemplary. Their commitment to training was very good and their team spirit and mutual support was a great credit to them. The boys were also well supported by their parents. At the Parent and Son Competition there were 28 family entries, so many that we ran two competitions. Thomas Cheah won the main event, while the Yearling competition was won by Charlie McDowell (The Knoll). Both boys were partnered by their mothers.

– John Eaton, Rackets Professional

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THE ARCHIVE In 2020–21, the School started to plan the celebrations for its 450th anniversary and the Archive was kept busy providing research and resources in support of these projects.

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he Archive provided the images for the screens placed around the Hill, which are intended to raise awareness of the School’s heritage and the forthcoming celebrations among the general public, School and local community. The Archive also played a vital role in producing a celebratory book of images representative of Harrow School by supplying studio space for the photographer as well as records and objects to photograph, with their contextual data.

The Golland Society, named after the founder of the Archive, beak Jim Golland, was re-established and kicked off its activities during the Summer term. A number of boys engaged enthusiastically with the collections, talks and plans for the various upcoming heritage projects. One such project involves a collaboration with Shaftesbury Enterprise and will see boys working alongside the charity Soldier On! and the Chelsea Pensioners to capture data in the School Chapel, Fourth Form Room and Saint Mary’s churchyard, crossreferencing it against our School and Parish records and mapping that data digitally.

Boys also researched the history of the Harrow on the Hill High Street in

School v Old Harrovians, 1939

View of Harrow

preparation for a community event that will be part of the 450 celebrations.

Work with the School Conservator continued, not only on collection care and conservation but also on a project to create replicas of the Harrow School Royal seal, as tokens to be presented at the 450th anniversary ceremony to be held at St Paul’s Cathedral in February 2022.

In addition to regular features such as Throwback Thursdays, the Archive also formed the basis of a talk at Headstone

The Knoll, 1884

Manor for the local community, and we started to prepare for the resumption of themed historical tours as the COVID-19 restrictions eased.

During the year, the Archive continued to gather, in digital form, information that is representative of life during the Covid pandemic. We again received over 1,000 research enquiries, and we were very glad to welcome researchers back to the Archive in person in the summer.

– Tace Fox, Archivist

Ducker View

Cast of Macbeth, 1929

Boys playing ice hockey

The HDT supports the OSRG Conservator’s post.

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OLD SPEECH ROOM GALLERY The new body that supports the work of the OSRG, the Collections Committee, held its inaugural meeting at the beginning of the year. Under the Chairmanship of Governor Professor Paul Binski (The Park 1970³), the committee will continue the work of the former Treasures Committee.

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espite Covid precautions necessitating closure to the public for the academic year and a consequent halt to the exhibitions programme, the OSRG team were kept busy with teaching, research, collections care and preparations for the major refurbishment to the office spaces beyond the gallery.

Suitably socially distanced, boys sat in the OSRG for their Shell Carousel, Remove Elective, Duke of Edinburgh’s Award activities and OSRG Arts Society sessions; innovative methods of teaching had to be devised that did not involve the direct handling of objects. Divisions from the Classics and English Departments attended for special project work, and the OSRG Trophy for ‘the best piece of creative writing based on an object in the collection’ was awarded for the first time.

More than 50 objects were accessioned, most notably Discovery of India by Jawaharlal Nehru (The Head Master’s 1905³), An Indian Album by Sir Cecil Beaton (Bradbys 1918¹), a sculpted head of Duncan Grant by Steven Tomlin (Druries 1914³), an Ashmolean poster for a retrospective exhibition (1985) of the work of Richard Shirley Smith (The Knoll 1949²), four first edition works of 1813 by Lord Byron (Druries 1801²), and a woodblock print entitled Snow Shovelers, New York by Claire Leighton, an artist greatly admired by Harrow Art beaks John Ryan and Maurice Percival in the 1950s. A former colleague of David Guilford (Druries 1944²), also a master at Eton College and Guilford’s executor, delivered the final tranche of stamp albums in the Guilford Bequest.

Hamish Dewar of Mayfair repaired and restored the portrait of Head Master Dr Robert James (1953–77) that had been damaged by incursion of rainwater into the OH Room in 2020. Other conservation projects included the repair to the lid of a 17th-century oak coffer in the Alex Fitch

Duncan Grant by Steven Tomlin

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OSRG Arts Society boys who remained on the Hill early in 2021; others worked remotely from home.

Room; cleaning and repair to the canvas of a 19th-century painting of John Lyon’s Manor House at Preston; cleaning and remounting of two portraits of E E Bowen, House Master of The Grove (1881–1901); cleaning, repair and remounting of 12 19th-century Japanese woodblock prints by Hiroshige in the Tokaido Road series; and extensive cleaning, photography, documentation and storage of Egyptian antiquities gifted by Sir John Gardner Wilkinson in 1884. A specialist guillotine was purchased for the Conservation Studio, and the Wet Room was refitted to meet the Conservator’s requirements. Photography, documentation and storage of the Egyptian amulet collection was completed.

For several days during the Spring term, the main section of the OSRG was transformed into a photographic studio.

Key objects from the collections were removed from displays and storerooms, cleaned and professionally photographed

for inclusion in a special publication to mark the School’s 450th anniversary in 2022.

Much of the Summer term was devoted to the transfer of contents from the Curator’s office into temporary accommodation created in the main gallery.

The refurbishment of the office areas, as well as conservation of the historic stained-glass windows of the OSRG were just two elements of the major works scheduled to take place in Old Schools from June–September 2021. The new Curator’s office will have dedicated space for OSRG Arts Society projects. An object-inspection counter will provide a suitable space for object handling and photography. The OSRG reference library will be located on a new mezzanine-level balcony and the freshly revealed and restored fireplace from 1820 will remind the boys how form rooms were heated in days gone by.

– Julia Walton, OSRG Curator

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Harrovian Olympians In the summer of 2021, the postponed 2020 Games of the 32nd Olympiad took place in Tokyo.

Among those competing was Old Harrovian Harry Glover (Rendalls 20093). He was the latest of a distinguished line of OH sportsmen to take part in the Olympics of the modern era, going back to the 4th Olympic Games in London in 1908.

He took the name of Hopton on his marriage to Sybil, the granddaughter of John Hopton of Canon Frome Court in Herefordshire, which she inherited. He had a private rifle range at Canon Frome, where he managed to hit a target 1,500 yards away. When he died in 1934, he was buried in a mausoleum at the point from where he hit the 1,500-yard target.

An accomplished musician and songwriter, he was a director of the Royal Academy of Music. His song Ceylon Whispers was often played at Bisley Shooting Ground.

JOHN DUTTON HOPTON (Small Houses 18731) John Dutton Hopton (1858–1934) competed in the 1,000-yard free rifle event at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London.

This was the only Olympics at which the 1,000-yard free rifle was contested.

After leaving Harrow, Dutton Hopton had a career in the Army Ordnance Department, becoming Chief Inspector for Small Arms and part of Queen Victoria’s bodyguard. He was considered one of the greatest rifle shots of his day, representing England 36 times.

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John Dutton Hopton’s mausoleum at Canon Frome

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SIR ARTHUR PAGE (Small Houses and The Head Master’s 18901) Arthur Page (1876–1958) represented Great Britain in jeu de paume (real tennis) at the 1908 Summer Olympics in London, reaching the semi-final of the competition.

At Harrow, he was a talented fives player, footballer and cricketer, and was a member of the Harrow XI against Eton at Lord’s in 1894 and 1895. He read Classics at Magdalen College, Oxford, where he was a jeu de paume blue, winning the university doubles competition in 1899. He also played nine first-class cricket matches for the MCC, opening the batting against South Africa at his final first-class game.

A Queen’s Counsel, he left his practice in 1915 to become an able seaman with the Royal Navy Volunteer Reserve, before joining the Royal Marine Artillery and serving in France and Flanders. In 1921, he was appointed a judge of the Calcutta High Court and later became Chief Justice in Burma. He was knighted in 1930.

RICHARD OAKES CRAWSHAY (Moretons and Small Houses 18963) Richard Crawshay (1882–1953) competed in the team sabre fencing event in the 1912 Summer Olympics in Stockholm.

After leaving Harrow, Crawshay joined the Grenadier Guards. He resigned his commission in 1904, having inherited a large fortune on the death of his father, a wealthy South Wales ironworks and colliery owner. He seems to have gone on to enjoy a life of leisure at various homes around Europe.

Crawshay was also an aviator and, in 1914, flew the English Channel with Eleanor Trehawke Davies, who was the first woman to fly the Channel as a passenger.

GUY MONTAGU BUTLER (The Park 19133) Guy Butler (1899–1981) won a gold medal as part of the 4x400m relay team at the 1920 Summer Olympics in Antwerp, where he also won a silver medal in the individual 400m. At the 1924 Olympics in Paris, he won bronze in the 400m and in the 4x400m relay. In 1928, he became the first British athlete to compete in three Olympic Games.

In 1919, he won the Amateur Athletics Association 400m title and, in 1926, the 200m title. In 1926, he also held the 270m world record.

Butler’s great-grandfather and grandfather were Head Masters of Harrow (George Butler and Henry Montagu Butler (The Headmaster’s 18463) respectively). His father, Edward Montagu Butler (The Headmaster’s 18802) won a cricket and athletics blue at Cambridge and was a first-class cricketer as well as the English rackets champion in 1889.

At Harrow, Butler was Head of School,

captain of cricket, Harrow football and Association football, and was Victor Ludorum in 1917. On leaving Harrow, he went first to the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and then Trinity College, Cambridge. He taught at Lancing College from 1922 to 1928.

After his retirement from athletics, he coached several notable athletes, including fellow Harrovian Olympian Alastair McCorquodale. Later, he was an athletics writer and journalist, and a pioneer of filming athletes in action. He contributed to the design of the White City Stadium.

DOUGLAS GORDON ARTHUR LOWE (Harrow c.1915) Doug Lowe (1902–81) was first man to retain an Olympic 800m title, winning his first gold medal in Paris in 1924 and his second in Amsterdam in 1928, setting British 800m records on both occasions. In Paris, he came close to winning a second medal when he finished fourth in the 1,500 metres, and at Amsterdam he anchored the

HERITAGE Douglas Lowe

British 4x400m relay team, which also finished fourth.

Lowe spent less than a year at Harrow before moving to Highgate School. He went on to win blues for soccer and athletics at Pembroke College, Cambridge, winning the 800m in 1922, 1923 and 1924; in 1924 he also won the mile. Between 1924 and 1928 he won several Amateur Athletics Association titles and he set a world record for 600 yards in 1926.

After retiring from sport, he helped form the British Amateur Athletics Board. He also wrote several books of advice on training and competition. He had a distinguished law career and was president of the Bar Council and a Queen’s Counsel. His advice was sought before the making of the film Chariots of Fire, but he declined to help.

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Lancelot Royle (1898–1978) was part of the “Chariots of Fire” team that won a silver medal in the 4x100m at the Paris Olympics in 1924. He was also a talented 200m sprinter, and it was he who gave up his place to allow Eric Liddell to run the 200m race in which Liddell won bronze.

Royle was the son of the Test cricketer Vernon Royle. On leaving Harrow in 1916,

Michael Warriner, fourth row, third from left

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W. James Riddell

Lancelot Carrington Royle

Mountaineering School in Lebanon, for which he received an MBE. In 1948, he undertook a six-month monoplane flight to Australia with the novelist Neville Shute.

This provided the inspiration for his travel book Flight of Fancy, and for Shute’s novel A Town Like Alice.

CHARLES SYMONDS LEAF (Small Houses 19093)

he joined the Royal Artillery. At an Allied Forces Meeting in Paris in 1920, he took first place in the 100m and 200m sprints and the 110m hurdles, second place in the triple jump, and third place in the 200m hurdles and the long jump. He was the British Army sprint champion in 1920 and 1921.

Royle left the army in 1921 to join Unilever, moving to Home and Colonial Stores in 1928. He rejoined the Royal Artillery during World War II but was asked

by Winston Churchill to be co-chairman of the Macharg/Royle Treasury Committee and then to take on the Chairmanship of NAAFI. He was made a Knight Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 1944. He was also a Governor of Harrow School.

MICHAEL HENRY WARRINER (Moretons 19223) Michael Warriner (1908–86) won a gold medal in the coxless four at the Summer Olympics in 1928 in Amsterdam.

Warriner went to Trinity College, Cambridge, after leaving Harrow. He rowed with the First Trinity Boat Club and was in the winning Cambridge boat in the Boat Races of 1928, 1929 and 1930, on the final occasion as President of the Cambridge University Boat Club. It was as one of the First Trinity crew that he won the Olympic

gold medal, as First Trinity were representing Great Britain.

In 1930, Warriner joined the Sudan Government Service but returned to England in 1934 and entered the business world as an engineer. During World War II, he served as a Lieutenant Colonel in the Royal Engineers. He was awarded the MBE in 1945.

W. JAMES RIDDELL (Newlands 19233) James Riddell (1909–2000) competed in the skiing events of the 1936 Winter Olympics at Garmisch-Partenkirchen in Germany.

At Harrow, he played cricket against Eton at Lord’s and was a talented cross-country runner. He went on to read Modern Languages at Clare College, Cambridge.

In 1929, he took part in the first international downhill race at Zakopane in Poland, and won the Meurren, the longest and most demanding of amateur downhill races. He was British downhill champion in 1935 and was also a successful ski jumper, but at the Olympics of 1936 he crashed badly into a tree and suffered a serious back injury.

Outside skiing, he travelled to Africa to photograph wildlife, and wrote a series of books on ski resorts. He also wrote children’s books, the most famous of which is the split picture book Animal Lore and Disorder. During World War II, he taught mountain survival techniques for the armed forces at the Middle East Ski and

Charles Leaf (1895–1912) was a crew member of the British boat Lalage, which won the gold medal in the six-metre class at the 1936 Summer Olympics in Berlin.

He saw action at Passchendaele in World War I and, in 1918, he was treated for shell shock and started sailing as part of his recovery in 1919.

Charles’ uncle, Herbert Leaf, (Home Boarders and Grove Hill 18673) left a bequest of £10,000 to Harrow, which was used to build the Leaf Schools. Charles’ daughter, Freydis, went on to be one of the first women to qualify for RAF wings. His son, Edward, was killed during World War II at the age of 25.

Charles Leaf

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David Bond

DAVID BOND (Druries 19361)

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David Bond (1922–2013) won a sailing gold medal in the 1948 London Olympics.

He and helmsman Stewart Morris, in their boat Swift, won the Swallow class event on the only occasion it was included in the Olympic yachting programme.

Bond only discovered he was to take part in the 1948 games a few months before the event, when Morris and his usual crewman parted company after a disagreement. Bond took unpaid leave from his job in the aircraft industry to take part.

There was very little publicity about the games and many of his colleagues, and his employers, were unaware of what he was doing until he showed them his medal on his return to work.

Bond, who was also known as ‘Dinghy’, served as an aircraftsman in the RAF during the war, later joining BOAC. He worked briefly as a market gardener before becoming a successful yacht builder in Cornwall. He was the only British Olympic champion from the 1948 Games still alive when the Olympics returned to London in 2012.

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Alastair McCorquodale (1925–2009) was a silver medallist in the 4x100m relay at the 1948 London Olympics and came fourth in

the 100m.

At Harrow, he was an outstanding cricketer, playing at Lord’s in 1943 and 1944, when he was also awarded Victor Ludorum. On leaving Harrow, he joined the Coldstream Guards, where he took up athletics. He was Army Champion at 100m and won at the Amateur Athletics Association 200m in 1947. On leaving the army in 1948, he joined the London Athletics Club, where he was trained by Guy Butler.

Despite his talent for sprinting, he gave up serious athletics after the Olympics. His greatest love was cricket and he continued to play for many years, playing three first-class matches for Middlesex and touring Ireland, Germany and Canada.

He became chairman of the family printing business, which had printed the programmes for the 1948 Olympics, and he was a Governor of Harrow School.

Alastair McCorquodale

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Harry Glover (right) at Harrow

ANTONY JAMES DILLON NASH (Rendalls 19493) Tony Nash (born 18 March 1936) competed in the Winter Olympics of 1964 and 1968, winning gold in the two-man bobsleigh event with Robin Dixon at the 1964 Olympics in Innsbruck. They were both awarded the MBE to mark their victory.

Nash and Dixon also won three medals in the two-man event at the World Championships, with one gold (1965) and two bronzes (1963, 1966).

Nash, a director of the family engineering firm, was one of the key figures in the technical developments behind the resurgence of British bobsledding in the 1960s. He and Dixon were inducted into the British Bobsleigh Hall of Fame as a result of their success, and a curve at the St Moritz-Celerina Olympic Bobrun is named for them.

HARRY GLOVER (Rendalls 20093) Tony Nash

Harry Glover (born 31 December 1995) represented Great Britain at rugby sevens at the 2020 Summer Olympics in Tokyo.

While at Harrow, he represented Middlesex at rugby from Under-14 level through to the Under-18 side. He read Politics and Economics at Newcastle University and joined Wasps rugby club in 2014. He played more than 30 matches for England in the HSBC World Rugby Sevens Series and won two bronzes and a silver medal. He was then selected for the 2018 Rugby World Cup Sevens in San Francisco. He played again for England Sevens in the 2019–20 season. In 2021, he was selected to play for US Carcassone in the Rugby Pro D2 league in France and was later signed to Stade Français for the 2021–22 season.

His brother, Will, has also represented England at sevens.

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MONITORS Head of School – Adam Ait El Caid, Sch. (Druries) Serge Antipovskiy, Sch. (West Acre) * Henry Arundell, Sch.(OT) (The Knoll) * Arvind Asokan, Sch. (Bradbys) Alex Barnham (Moretons) * Peter Cartwright (The Grove) Johnny Connell, Sch.(Sport) (Rendalls) * Ryan Cullen, Sch. (The Grove) Luke Esposito (Newlands) * Jack Gosden, Sch.(Sport) (Lyon’s) * Federico Greaves (Bradbys) * Ben Harrison, Sch., Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) (West Acre) Matthew Harrison, Sch., Sch.(OT), Exh.(Mus.) (West Acre)

Olly Harrison, Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(Sport) (The Knoll) John Koutalides (West Acre) Jan Kryca (Moretons) Ryan Lai, Sch. (The Grove) * Olufemi Lijadu, Sch. (Druries) Max Morgan, Sch.(Dra.) (Rendalls) George Phillips, Sch., Sch.(Art) (The Head Master’s) * Tej Sheopuri, Sch. Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s) Herbie Smith, Sch.(Sport) (Newlands) Freddie Strange, Sch.(Art), Sch.(OT) (Newlands) Ben Swan, Sch. (Moretons) George Webster, Sch. (Druries) * Wayne Wen, Sch. (The Park) *

THE PHILATHLETIC CLUB Henry Arundell, Sch.(OT) (The Knoll) – Head of the Philathletic Club Adam Ait El Caid A., Sch. (Druries) † Henry Farquhar (Lyon’s) Jack Gosden, Sch.(Sport) (Lyon’s) Olly Harrison, Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(Sport) (The Knoll) John Koutalides (West Acre) Tej Sheopuri Sch. Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s) Ricky White, Sch.(OT) (The Knoll) Ethan Yeo, Sch., Sch.(Sport) (The Head Master’s)

THE GUILD Freddie Strange, Sch.(Art), Sch.(OT) (Newlands) – Head of The Guild Adam Ait El Caid, Sch. (Druries) ‡ Adam Auret, Sch.(OT) (Lyon’s) George Gallagher (The Grove) Maximilian Gu, Sch.(Art) (Rendalls) Jake Henson, Sch.(Dra.) (The Park) Marc Lindgren, Exh.(Mus.) (West Acre) Shubh Malde, Sch., Sch.(Art) (Elmfield) Max Morgan, Sch.(Dra.) (Rendalls) George Phillips, Sch., Sch.(Art) (The Head Master’s) Nicky Platt, Sch.(Art), Sch.(Mus.) (Moretons) Gabriel Rogers, Sch.(Dra.) (The Knoll) Daniel Sandell, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) (Moretons) Cameron Yarrow (Druries) *Head of House † ex officio ‡ ex officio and de jure

The Philathletic Club

The Guild

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NEW BOYS IN 2020-21 BRADBYS Larry Cao Timmy de Hemptinne August De Lencquesaing Sharan Hinduja Ed Latham Haiwei Li Joshua Oliver-Willwong Daniyal Piranditta Michael Shvidler Taka Tonoki Milo Walker Peter Yang Cary Zhang

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DRURIES Samuel Amissah Jasper Brockwell Tom Campbell-Johnston Justin Chan Cyrus Chang Brian Chang Henry Dargan Ibrahim Faisal Alex Gabbitas Julian Gudgeon Ittetsu Hoshi Wilfred Leung George Maia William Riddick Edward Swanson James Talamai

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ELMFIELD Edwin Bai Penn Behagg Henry Beresford-Peirse Seb Boreham Harrison Dunne Alex Garawal Thomas Kelsey Alastair Lam Mungo Lawson Cassian Loughney Feo Mishin Edmund O’Callaghan Rohan Ragoowansi Benjamin Thu Ya Sam Winters

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THE GROVE

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Akachi Anyanwu Gideon Aw Rishaad Bhushan Hugo Bourne Anson Ching Tamim Downe Jackie Guo

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Samuel Howes Shell Raulph Lubbe Shell Otto Marre Shell Jaden Odofin Shell Inigo Sanchez-Asiain Domenech Lower Sixth Toby Shemilt Shell Henry Song Shell Ethan Yang Lower Sixth Robert Young Shell

THE HEAD MASTER’S Alex Akinluyi Farhan Ashiq Julian Chan Eli Dewotor Seun Doherty Ulysses Hu Jaden Lim Atticus Malley Arjun Nanda Arinze Ofurum Leo Polese Felix Regnard-Weinrabe

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Michael Samuelson Benjamin Wu

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THE KNOLL Spencer Chan William Chen Jonathon Dolby Fadi Junejo Jenkyn Keigwin Rupert Lam George Mackintosh Josh Mather Charlie McDowell Tomas Mugica Moreno Aaron Patel Adam Sameen Jasper Smallwood Tian Zhang

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LYON’S Ezekiel Akinsanya Puna Anantaprakorn Saarvin Cambatta-Mistry

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100 101 Thomas Tian John Yap Jack Young

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THE PARK Louis Byrne Justin Chuk Eddie Cooke Jack de la Poer Beresford Bernard Dreesmann Hugo Evans Jarvis Lam Archie Marlow Hugh Mercer Wong Oliver Older Dami Olugbodi Tochi Orji Harry Pearson Max Rugge-Price Jack Sheng Adam Wong Murat Yildirim

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RENDALLS

Alexander Choi Max Cowlrick Benjamin Denman Babade Fasinro Ayotade Fasinro Jamie Jevons Tom Leonard Leonardo Lord Alex Moore Naryan Seehra Oliver Stirling Luca Stubinski-Aldridge Nicholas Tam Bryan Yuen

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MORETONS Charlie Allday Charlie Arnison Josh Ashley Oscar Bearman Awni Dajani Louis Deshpande Freddie Emery

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James Flach Rory Grant George Hamblin Freddie Harrison Harry Minderides Lucas Ozmen Henry Porter Freddie Williams

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NEWLANDS Melvin Ackah Oliver Campbell Darren Chiu Sammy Clayton-Bennett Jonny Cullinane Jonah Esposito Eshaan Firake Hal Hersee Cam Knight Yuk-Chiu Lai Harry Murton Hans Patel Tom Pearce

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Teddy Barnett Tom Brocklebank David Chen Ralph Collier-Wright Miles Herron Nathan Karri Leo Lee Harry Owens Andrew Park Krishan Rajakulendran Algy Royle Arturo Saville Mascioni Henry Snow Archie Steward

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WEST ACRE Jack Allen Aditya Asnani Ahaan Asnani Roberson Brown Jack He Xander Jones Adi Joshi Artur Kuner Andy Law James Lester Koyin Majekodunmi Ray Moon Zoro Paintal John Pedersen Uppie Vejjajiva Buster Wilkins Tianyi Zhou

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LISTINGS

SPEECH DAY PRIZES IN 2021 SHELL PRIZES Akachi Anyanwu, Sch.

The Ian Beer Shell Biology Prize

The Jeremy Lemmon Prize (Junior)

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Shell Prize for Spanish

Charlie Ni

The Jonathan Head Barrow Remove Prize for Short Story

Aditya Asnani, Sch.

The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science

Michel Quist, Sch.

The Adam Prize for History

Gideon Aw

The Winkley Shell First Prize for English

Jasper Smallwood-Martin

The Head Master’s Remove Prize for Learnt Poetry

Rishaad Bhushan

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Shell Prize

St John Smith

The Fox Talbot Junior Prize

Larry Cao

The Shell Mathematics Prize

Vincent Song, Sch.

The Geoffrey Simmonds Remove Prize for Computing

Awni Dajani

The Winkley Shell Second Prize for English

The Remove Prize for Science

Seun Doherty

The Botfield Shell Prize for German

The Winkley Remove Prize for English

Rory Grant, Sch.(Dra.)

The Head Master’s Shell Prize for Learnt Poetry

Brandon Tam, Sch.

The Vaux Huggett Remove Prize for German

Jackie Guo

The Shell Prize for Chemistry

Leo Waschkuhn

The Richard Fuchs Prize

Jamie Jevons, Sch.

The Affleck Prize for Shell Greek

Henry Webster, Sch., Sch.(DT)

The Kingsley Prize for Design Technology

The Morwood Shell Prize for Latin

The Leonard Walton Remove French Prize

The Oxenham Shell Prize for Greek Reading

The Remove Biology Prize

Thomas Kelsey, Sch.(Mus.)

The Shell Family Prize for Treble Voice

The Remove Prize for Astronomy

Ed Latham

The Shell Theology and Philosophy Prize

The Remove Prize for Chemistry

Rupert Lam, Sch.

The Cayley Mathematics Olympiad Prize

The Winkley Remove Prize for English

Mungo Lawson

The Paul Lewis Junior Science Lecture Prize

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

The Augustus Fleet Remove Prize for Poetry

Raulph Lubbe

The Lawrence Junior Singing Prize

The Balme Remove Prize for Latin

The Michael Pailthorpe Prize for Science

The Briscoe Eyre Remove Prize for Music

George Maia

The Shell Prize for Russian

The Hamilton Mathematics Prize

Otto Marre

The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry

The Parsonson Remove Prize for Mathematics

The Jonathan Head Barrow Shell Prize for Short Story

The Siddons Prize for Mathematics

Ray Moon

The Morwood Shell Prize for Greek

Mark Zeng

The Leaf Remove Prize for Physics

The Shell Prize for Physics

Tamir Zolboo, Sch.

The Remove Prize for Russian

The Tower Prize for History

Tomas Mugica Moreno

The Shell Geography Prize

FIFTH FORM

Jaden Odofin

The Tower Prize for History

Aum Amin, Sch.

The Dr R A Robinson Prize for Practical Science

The Verney Shell Prize for French

The Fifth Form Prize for Astronomy

Aaron Patel The Mark Maples Prize for Outstanding Graphics in the Lower School

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Liron Chan, Sch.

The Fifth Form Prize for Chemistry

Hans Patel, Sch.(Art), Sch.(Mus.)

The Bourchier Shell Prize for History

The Geoffrey Simmonds Fifth Form Prize for Computing

The Shell Art Prize

The Leaf Fifth Form Prize for Physics

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Shell Prize

The Lower Crawford Prize for Mathematics

Rohan Ragoowansi

The Coward Shell Prize for History

The Maclaurin Mathematics Olympiad Prize

The Ottley Shell Prize for English

Arturo Saville Mascioni, Sch.(Dra.)

The Augustus Fleet Shell Prize for Poetry

Matthew Chin, Sch., Sch.(Mus.) The Jonathan Head Barrow Fifth Form Prize for Short Story

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

Henry Song, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

The Raymond Warren Prize for Organ

Luca Stubinski-Aldridge

The Farr Prize for Design Technology

Robert Young

The Oxenham Shell Prize for Latin Reading

REMOVE PRIZES

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Fifth Form Prize Charlie Clayton

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Dramatic Promise

Charlie Cross

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

The Vaux Huggett Fifth Form Prize for German

Antonio da Silveira Pinheiro

The Alexander Smith Fifth Form Classics Essay Prize

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Alexander Adefarasin, Sch.(Art)

The Remove Art Prize

The Fifth Form Prize for Italian

Andrew Arthur, Sch.

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Remove Prize for Spanish

Tito Edjua, Sch.(Sport)

The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize

Keith Au-Yeung, Exh.(Mus.)

The Japanese Prize

Tom Emery, Sch.(Sport)

The Fifth Form Physical Education Prize

Valentine Ballingal

The Remove Prize for Ancient History

Jude Esposito, Sch.

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

Felix Boegh-Nielsen, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Ralph Moore Junior Prize for Handwriting

Maxi Gardner, Sch.(Art)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Cameron Childs

The Remove Theology and Philosophy Prize

Hansen Han, Sch.

The Lower Crawford Prize for Mathematics

Cameron Elliott

The Bourchier Remove Prize for History

The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Latin

Henry Gray, Sch.(Sport)

The Remove Geography Prize

Nikolai Hanbury, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

The Viscountess Strangford Junior Prize for Geography

Hadrian Ho, Sch.(Mus.)

The Smouha Prize for Chamber Music

Julian Herschel, Sch.

The Coward Remove Prize for History

Thomas Hobbs, Sch.

The Fifth Form Prize for Russian

June Hyun, Sch.

The Colomb Prize for Naval History

The Winkley Fifth Form Prize for English

The Oxenham Remove Prize for Latin Reading

Will Howitt

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Fifth Form Prize

The Oxenham Remove Prize for Greek Reading

Adiran Inpan, Sch.(AR)

The Lady Bourchier Junior Reading Prize

The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Remove Prize

Marcos Christakis Kantaris

The Intermediate Singing Prize

Mete Kuner

The Dudley Gordon Prize for Design Technology

The Society of American Military Engineers Prize

Kieran Leung, Sch.(Mus.)

The Smouha Prize for Chamber Music

Rei Ishikawa, Sch.(Art)

The Remove Art Prize

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

The Augustus Fleet Fifth Form Prize for Poetry

Mark Liu, Sch.(Mus.)

The Lockett Junior Prize for Pianoforte

The Bourchier Fifth Form Prize for History

Paddy Mulqueen

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Remove Prize

The Snell Prize for Mathematics

Sebastian Murray, Exh.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Remove Prize for Music

Andre Ma, Sch.(Mus.)

The Briscoe Eyre Fifth Form Prize for Music

Misha Newington

The Balme Remove Prize for Greek

Harry Morse, Sch.(Art)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

Alexander Newman, Sch.

The Clementi Collard Prize for Imperial History

Sebastian Moscoso

The Fifth Form Theology and Philosophy Prize

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The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

Connor O’Flaherty, Sch., Sch.(Sport) The E D Laborde Fifth Form Geography Prize Harry O’Shea, Sch.

The Ottley Prize for Shakespeare

The Verney Fifth Form Prize for French

The Ernest Cater Prize for Natural History

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Josh Owens

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

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The Chinese Prize

Ilyas Qureshi, Exh.(Mus.) The Sir Winston Churchill English Composition Lower Sixth Form Prize

Tom Pollock

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

John Richardson

The Chinese Prize

Jerry Qi

The Japanese Prize

The Jeremy Lemmon Prize (Senior)

The MacPherson Fifth Form Prize for Ancient History

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Shrey Rawal, Sch., Sch.(Sport)

The Lord Frederic Hamilton Fifth Form Prize for Spanish

Jun Wha Shin, Sch., Sch.(Mus.)

Fifth Form Essay Prize

Henry Ridley

The Angus Thompson Prize for History

The James Poke Junior Prize for Music Composition

Jiho Ro, Sch.

The Warman Fifth Form Prize for Greek

The McIntosh Prize for History

Seyon Santhamoorthy, Sch.

The Fifth Form Biology Prize

The Vaux Huggett Lower Sixth Form Prize for German

Cooper Smith

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Rock Band

Hanno Sie

The Fortescue Lower Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Elliott Taylor, Sch.(Sport), Sch.(Art)

The Fifth Form Art Prize

William Tate

The Dr R A Robinson Prize for Practical Science

Josh Thompson

The Coward Fifth Form Prize for History

Freddie Taylor, Exh.(Mus.)

The Viscountess Strangford Prize for Geography

Jimmy Turner

The Whitworth Conservation Prize

Aarav Tribhuvan, Sch. The Jonathan Head Barrow Sixth Form Prize for Short Story

LOWER SIXTH

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

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

Marcus Tung, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

William Wauchope, Sch.

Fifth Form Essay Prize

The St Helier Prize for English Literature

The Dodd Prize for Oratory

Aakash Aggarwal, Sch.

The Hyde Thomson Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Lady Bourchier Senior Reading Prize

The Thanawalla Prize for Economics

The Prior Prize for Theology and Philosophy

The Walter Frith Prize for English

The Ralph Moore Prize for Greek Literature

Qumarth Akhavan Zanjani, Sch.

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

Rufus Williams

The Business Prize

Ezekiel Akinsanya The Halliday Prize for All-round Geographical Contributions

The Fortescue Lower Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Max Wilson

The Charles Lillingston Prize for History

Hugo Anderson The Lower Sixth Form Theology and Philosophy Research Prize

Dylan Winward, Sch.

Fifth Form Essay Prize

The Christopher Cooke Prize for English Literature

Indi Abrams, Sch.

The Eustace Prize for Biology

Farhan Ashiq

The Maharaj Singh Prize for Indian History

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

The Donald Morris Prize for Outstanding Contribution to The Harrovian

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

The Sir Percival Marling Prize for Design Technology

The Randall Prize for History

William Barrett

The Viscountess Strangford Senior Prize for Geography

The Harvard Book Prize

Edward Blunt

The National Westminster Bank Prize for Economics

Joseph Wragg, Sch.(Mus.)

The Bourchier Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

Joe Brankin-Frisby

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

The Briscoe Eyre Lower Sixth Form Prize for Music

Adam Chambers, Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Ancient History

Justin Chan

The Sir John Colville Prize for Politics

The MacPherson Plumptre Prize for Ancient History

Brandon Chang, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The A W Hill Prize for Chemistry

The Smouha Prize for Chamber Music

The Beddington Lower Sixth Form Prize for Physics

Benji Xu

The Lower Sixth Form History of Art Prize

The Snell Prize for Mathematics

Bryan Yuen

The Vaux Huggett Lower Sixth Form Prize for German

The Upper Crawford Prize for Mathematics

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Ben Ahrens

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Sam Dunn

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Latin Language

Arvind Asokan, Sch.

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

Max Ferreira, Sch.(OT), Sch. (Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The R A Fisher Prize for Statistics

Gibbens J.D.L.

The Fox Talbot Senior Prize

Adam Auret, Sch.(OT)

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Vadim Gurinov, Sch.(Art)

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

Alex Bethell

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Henry Hancock

Fifth Form Essay Prize

Caspar Bird

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

The Prior Prize for French

Patrick Breeze, Sch.

The Angus Sixsmith Prize for Piping

Edos Herwegh Vonk, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Chemistry

The Beresford Hope Prize for Greek Prose Composition

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

The Fred Watkins Prize for Latin Unseens

Eddie Jodrell

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Photography

The Gregory Prize for Greek Unseens

Leon Kinaro

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Politics

The Head Master’s Prize

Archie Kyd, Sch.

Fifth Form Essay Prize

The Head Master’s Send Up Prize

Graham Lambert, Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(Sport)

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

The Jones Prize for Latin Literature

Patrick Lehrell

The Parsonson Prize for Mathematics

The Oxenham Senior Prize for Greek Reading

Lucas Maia

The Taylor Higginson Prize for Spanish

The Peel Medal for Latin Prose Composition

Nick Martin

Fifth Form Essay Prize

The Plumptre Scholarship for Best Classicist

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Art

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

Issah Ali Merchant, Sch.

Fifth Form Essay Prize

Oskar Bulstrode, Sch.(DT)

The Aberdeen Prize for Design Technology

The Geoffrey Simmonds Prize for Economics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Sebastian Burt

The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Andrew Cheung, Sch.

The Baron Boulos Prize for Economics

The Old Harrovian Medical Society Prize

Johnny Connell, Sch.(Sport)

The Yates Thompson Prize for Sculpture

Jin Park

The Coward Lower Sixth Form Prize for History

Ryan Cullen, Sch.

The Verney Prize for Argument

Arthur Pilkington, Sch.

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Greek Language

George Gallagher

The Alastair McLean Prize for Drama

The Pember Prize for Best Lower Sixth Classicist

The Mortimer Singer Prize for Solo Singing

Archie Powell, Sch.

The Elaine Davis Cup for the Most Improved Piper

Yi Zheng Gan, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Lower Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Jolyon Glynn The Christie-Murray Prize for Excellence in the Dramatic Arts

Hari Moondi The Harry Watts General Knowledge Lower Sixth Form Prize James Pang, Sch.

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Federico Greaves

The Fortescue Upper Sixth Form Prize for Italian

Luke Shailer, Sch., Sch.(DT)

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Maximilian Gu, Sch.(Art)

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Max Sjostrom

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Politics

Leonardo Haitzmann, Sch.(AR)

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Ben Smith

The Mavrogordato Prize for Ancient History

Hassan Hammad

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Joe Smith

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

The Harry Watts General Knowledge Upper Sixth Form Prize

Freddie Strange, Sch.(Art), Sch.(OT)

The Coward Upper Sixth Form Prize for History

The Harry Shapland Prize for Drama

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

Q Sun, Sch.

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Salters’ Company Prize for Chemistry

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

The Exeter Prize for Biology

The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

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

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Gareth Tan, Sch.

The St Helier Prize for English Literature

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Kyle TC-Singh, Sch.(DT)

The David McLean Prize for Engineering

Olly Harrison, Sch.(Mus.), Sch.(Sport) The Angad Paul Prize for Economics

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

The Spicer Prize for Theology and Philosophy

Richard Hayward, Sch.

The G M Attenborough Travel Award

The Research Prize for Modern Languages (second prize)

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Jake Henson, Sch.(Dra.)

The Augustus Fleet Sixth Form Prize for Poetry

The Russell Prize for Shakespeare

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

Rufus Hunter

The Ralton Prize for Business Studies

Leo Jiang

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Aurélien Josserand, Sch.

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Edward Kim, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Jan Kryca

The Research Prize for Modern Languages (first prize)

The Upper Sixth Form Prize for Russian

Neil Kumar

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Philipp Letman, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Marc Lindgren, Exh.(Mus.)

The James Poke Prize for Music Composition

The Oliver Sichel Prize for Singing

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

The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

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

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

The Leonard Walton Upper Sixth Form French Prize

Shubh Malde, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Macnamara Prize for Geography

The Oxenham Senior Prize for Latin Reading

Finlay Matheson, Sch.

The Guy Butlin Prize for Spanish

Jake McDermid

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Max Morgan, Sch.(Dra.)

The Robert Lloyd Henderson Prize for English Literature

The Terence Rattigan Prize

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

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

The Dalton Prize for Mathematics

The Hyde Thomson Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

The Sixth Form Physics Literature Review Prize

The Warwick-Smith Prize for Classical Guitar

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

George Phillips, Sch., Sch.(Art)

The Burston Prize for Art

The Calcutt Prize for Art History

The Ralph Moore Senior Prize for Handwriting

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

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

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Rohan Prasad, Sch.

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Bilal Rashid, Sch.

The Pigou Prize for Economics

Charles Read, Sch.(Art)

The Williams Prize for Biology

The Yates Thompson Prize for Art

Gabriel Rogers, Sch.(Dra.)

The Sebastian Graham-Jones Prize for Drama

Daniel Sandell, Sch., 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 Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

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

The Lord Claud Hamilton Prize for Medicine

The Sir Joseph Banks Prize for Science

The Sixth Form Prize for Computational Physics

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Wayne Wen, Sch.

The A W Hill Prize for Biology

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

George Williams

The Rupert Shaw Prize for Chemistry

Cameron Yarrow

The Charles Laborde Prize for Geography

The Gaskell Prize for Photography

James Yuen, Sch., Exh.(Mus.)

The Baker Prize for Mathematics

Pei Ting Zeng, Sch.

The A W Hill Upper Sixth Form Prize for Physics

The Beddington Prize for Chemistry

The Neeld Prize for Mathematics

British Physics Olympiad Top Gold Award

Gold Certificate in the UK Chemistry Olympiad Competition

Daniel Zhang, Sch.

The Fry Prize for Mathematics

Kevin Zhang

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Hongji Zhao, Exh.(Mus.)

Crest Gold Award for Engineering

Adam Ait El Caid, Sch.

The G M Attenborough Travel Award

The Head Master’s Prize

HARROW 450 A PHOTOGRAPHIC CELEBRATION OF HARROW SCHOOL

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FOUNDATION FAMILY

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HARROW ASSOCIATION Old Harrovian Golf Society

A GLOBAL OLD HARROVIAN COMMUNITY

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ld Harrovian (OH) engagement with the School, and with each other, is the purpose of the work of the Harrow Association (HA). The 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 with the Governors, Head Master and Harrow Development Trust to ensure the continuing success and prosperity of the School.

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

Harrow Wanderers

COMMUNITY KEEPING OLD HARROVIANS CONNECTED ONLINE

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n “ordinary” times, the HA team spends the bulk of its time organising gatherings where OHs can meet and reconnect with each other, through House Dinners, Songs, reunions and networking events. Although most of these were postponed during 2020/21, thanks to the success and popularity of our online networking platform OH Connect, the global OH community continued to stay in touch.

Through the platform, OHs of all ages were able to make social and career connections, trace old friends, share memories, advertise new businesses and support each other’s endeavours. Almost 4,000 OHs from all corners of the globe have now signed up and are making connections daily. Continuing investment in this exclusive OH online environment ensured we could continue to meet our community objectives in a socially distant world, as we offered a selection of virtual events and shared content, including videos of School events such as Churchill Songs, the Remembrance Sunday service, OH-led wine-tasting, cooking and general interest talks.

Rehearsal for the OH Players’ audio-production of Hamlet

OH clubs and societies faced a challenging year with various sporting fixtures and social meets unable to take place, including the Harrow Wanderers’ 150th anniversary dinner in October 2020 (rescheduled for October 2022). In a year when theatres went quiet, the OH Players managed to continue an unbroken run of Shakespeare performances, dating back to their first production of Richard II some 69 years before, with an audio production of

Hamlet. A cast of 36 from all over the world went to work from their makeshift recording studios under pegged duvets and pillows in their homes, and this special production was then made available to a global audience. Despite the strides we made in connecting digitally, we look forward to resuming our busy roster of social events and hope to welcome many of you at events planned for the School’s 450th anniversary in 2022.

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CAREERS AND EMPLOYABILITY

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he HA has continued to work alongside Michael Wright, the School’s Careers Advisor, employed jointly by the School and the HA, to offer careers guidance to current boys as well as the wider School careers team. Many OHs gave of their time and talent at numerous Business Lunches organised by Michael and at a new-look virtual Careers Convention for the boys in the Summer term. Unfortunately, the regular work experience programme was unable to take place due to COVID-19 restrictions.

Henry Kenyon (The Head Master’s 20093) gave a talk on careers in photography

HERITAGE TREASURES FOR THE ARCHIVE

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he 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 its history. During the year, the HA increased its investment in the digital archive sites, including The Harrovian and a new Digital Sources site, improving their usability and promoting them to the wider Harrow community. These new-look sites will be re-launched in time for the 450th anniversary celebrations and will offer a rich insight into the life of the School.

The HA has long been a conduit through which generous OHs have donated their Harrow-related objects to the Archive. A wonderfully preserved scrapbook dating back to 1914–17 and containing all manner of mementos from the School during the war years was a particularly poignant and significant gift the Archive received during the year.

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KEEP IN TOUCH Telephone us on +44 (0)20 8872 8200 Email us at ha@harrowschool.org.uk Visit us at the Harrow Association, 5A High Street, Harrow on the Hill, Middlesex HA1 3HP Like our Facebook page: harrowassociation Follow us on Twitter and Instagram @oldharrovians Join other OHs on our LinkedIn group: Harrow Association Connect with the global OH community on ohconnect.org.uk (for OHs only) View The Harrovian archive at theharrovian.org Learn about multi-generational Harrow families at 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 HRH Prince El Hassan bin Talal of Jordan (The Park 19603) Chairman Adam Hart (West Acre 19771) Executive Board Heyrick Bond-Gunning (West Acre 19851) James Darley (The Park 19843) James de Broë-Ferguson (The Grove 19813) Will Orr-Ewing (Elmfield 19983) Pierre Ali-Noor (West Acre 20013) Peter Hedley (West Acre 20083) Director Perena Shryane ha@harrowschool.org.uk Alumni Officer Shama Alimohamed alimohamedsp@harrowschool.org.uk Communications Officer Jessica Bellringer bellringerjr@harrowschool.org.uk

OH NEWS AND OHs IN THE NEWS

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he global OH community continued to impress with all manner of achievements. Harry Glover (Rendalls 2009³) represented his country in rugby sevens at the Olympics; Alex Chamberlin (Druries

19863) painted national treasure Captain Tom Moore; Luca Pittalis (Rendalls 20133) worked on natural history documentaries for the BBC; and others received HM The Queen’s New Year and Birthday Honours.

Data and Information Officer Chelsea Caterer catererc@harrowschool.org.uk Database and Research Officer Emma Pinto pintoel@harrowschool.org.uk Financial Secretary Debbie Hannaway hannawayd@harrowschool.org.uk Careers Advisor Michael Wright wrightmd@harrowschool.org.uk

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HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST Play Your Part: the catchphrase adopted as the HDT’s clarion call aimed at inspiring members of the global Harrow community to support the Harrow 450 funding priorities and the many anniversary celebrations being organised around the world in the coming months.

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great many members of our community began to play their part, with donations to Harrow, via the HDT, growing by 40% during the year. Nevertheless, there is a great deal more to be done. In what is considered the School’s largest investment ever – in pivotal capital projects, bursary expansion and necessary protection of Harrow’s heritage – the HDT’s five-year funding target is essential.

2020/21 was exciting for the HDT as the Harrow 450 campaign was launched and our two telephone engagement endeavours showed the enthusiasm in the Harrow community for our project, which saw a doubling in the number of OH and parent donors. Other highpoints included a record-breaking Long Ducker, with funds being distributed to many organisations in need in north-west London and to the Harrow Club.

Other hardship funds raised ensured that no Harrow boy had to leave the School because of family financial difficulties caused by the pandemic.

We are hugely grateful to our many contributors this year who have heard the call to Play Your Part. We hope many more of you will join them in the months ahead – Douglas Collins, CEO

HARROW RECORD

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Adam Ait El Caid

BURSARIES AND SCHOLARSHIPS

BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE

The HDT raised around £2.8 million for bursaries in 2020/21. These funds supported the 121 boys who received financial assistance, bolstered various existing schemes, such as the Peter Beckwith Scholarship programme, and enabled the School to launch new bursary initiatives including Churchill Places, which is currently a key pillar of the Harrow 450 Campaign.

Adam Ait El Caid, a Peter Beckwith bursary recipient, Head of School and now an Oxford University student commented: “Harrow offered me extraordinary and wide-ranging opportunities during my five years there and, simply, transformed my life. That is why I am delighted that the School will be expanding its bursary provision over the coming years to enable more boys like me to come to Harrow.“

Work commenced on the Hill in readiness for the renovations and extension of the Shepherd Churchill Dining Hall, a new science building for Chemistry and Biology, a new Sports Centre and a new landscaping scheme. Ongoing contributions also supported works to restore and renovate Old Schools, along with improvements to Houses.

450 SOCIETY Nearly 500 members joined the 450 Society following its launch, contributing at all levels. It is our ambition to attract 4,500 members by 2025.

INCOME RECEIVED IN THE 2020/2021 ACADEMIC YEAR 2020/21 saw a 35% increase in cash receipts over the previous year, and a number of the School’s key priorities were funded.

The number of contributors also rose to double the figure in the previous year.

HARROW DEVELOPMENT TRUST INCOME 2020/21 THREE YARDS FUND, OLD SCHOOLS AND OTHER PROJECTS

UNRESTRICTED AND HARROW 450 PROJECTS

£740k

£7.3m

BURSARIES AND PUPIL SUPPORT

£2.8m TOTAL INCOME

£10.8m

*HDT’s costs remain at 10% of income.

HOW TO SUPPORT HARROW

T

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

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

WHO’S WHO IN THE HDT Trustees Jim Glover (Rendalls 19783) Chairman

HARROW 450 TELEPHONE CAMPAIGNS With the help of two groups of enthusiastic young OH callers, we spoke with 1,533 OHs and parents during two successful telephone campaigns in November 2020 and July 2021, to mark the launch of our Harrow 450 anniversary programme.

CAMPAIGN HIGHLIGHTS

■ More than £800,000 committed over five years, with a further match contribution of £500,000.

■ Of those receiving a call, 40% pledged a gift, with over 200 individuals making their first donation to the School.

John Batting (The Park 1972²) Marina Brounger Matthew Fosh (The Head Master’s 1971²) Nikhil Hirdaramani (The Park 1988³) Adam Hart (West Acre 19772) 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 Chelsea Caterer Data and Information Officer Gregory Warmback (Newlands 20142) Development Officer Emma Pinto Database and Research Officer Debbie Hannaway Financial Secretary Jessica Bellringer Communications Officer The Harrow Development Trust is a registered charity, no 296097

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FOUNDATION FAMILY

Proposed new landscaping with view of the Chapel

THE HARROW 450 CAMPAIGN While much of the School’s Harrow 450 programme looks to ‘Celebrate our past’, it is the job of the HDT to focus on ‘Refounding our future’. In 2020, we launched the Harrow 450 Campaign to raise £100 million and encourage all members of the Harrow community – OHs, parents, staff and friends of Harrow – to support the School’s 450 ambitions. All those who choose to contribute, at whatever level they are able, will become members of the 450 Society.

BURSARIES The School’s bursary provision remains guided

by John Lyon’s original vision, enabling talented boys from families with limited means to benefit from a Harrow education.

Our aim is to increase the percentage of boys in receipt of means-tested support from 10% to 30%. We aim to raise £20 million in new bursary funding, £10 million of which will go towards funding up to four new Churchill Places bursaries per year.

BUILDING FOR THE FUTURE Work has already begun on the capital projects to the east side of the Hill. £70 million of funds raised will be directed towards these projects: the refurbishment of the Shepherd Churchill Dining Hall, construction of a new state-of-the-art science facility for Biology and Chemistry, a new Sports Centre and a landscaping scheme.

HARROW RECORD

HERITAGE

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£10 million will go towards preserving our historic buildings, restoring and renovating Old Schools and the installation and development of a new state-of-the-art Centre for Teaching and Learning, Artificial Intelligence and Cognitive Studies, and improvement works to Speech Room and the Vaughan Library.

View of the proposed Sports Centre

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Design for new science building

Impression of reburbished Shepherd Churchill building

Autumn 2021

ORDER OF BENEFACTORS 2016–21 WE CELEBRATE OUR BENEFACTORS

Benefactors who have given or pledged sums to the School, via Harrow Development Trust, for the continuing advancement of Harrow in the past five years are listed in the following pages.

Those who have 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 before 2016. We express deep gratitude to all of them, including those who have asked for their names to remain anonymous or whom we may have omitted inadvertently, for which we apologise.

1930s

Sir Jeremy Greenstock

G

1956³

Lt Col J R D Kaye JP 450

G 1964³

P Sprawson

B

1933²

P D A F Matthiesen

G

1956³

N A F Gent

K

1964³

J G Grinling CBE

D

1937²

M E Richards

G

1956³

R K J Bruce

P

1964³

J P G Wathen

D

1937²

I H Angus 450

N 1956³

G R J McDonald

H

1965¹

J H Wilding MBE

D

1938²

J P Swain

R 1956³

G R M Cruddas

C C Blount LVO

E

1938³

T H Walduck

W

N H Olesen

R

D 1957¹

S D Eadon 450

D 1965³

E S Griswold

450

N W D Foster 1940s

450

1956³

W K Moores

G

J Hutchinson

D

1942³

R B Powell 450

H 1957¹

J H Benn

R D Phillips 450

H 1943¹

D J L Fitzwilliams

N

P V F S Manduca

E G C Crawley

E

1943²

Colonel C M S Kaye OBE

D V Brown

D

1943³

R E Parslow

G

1943³

R J Sherlock

D

J J S Veisblat

D

Dr J E C Twentyman K K Wynes

1957¹

450

M 1965²

D

1965² 1965³

P 1965³ 450

R 1965³

G 1957²

G R G Nicholson 450

Dr P T G Phillips

G

G C W Marshall 450

W 1965³

R A Bates 450

N 1957²

W F C Simmonds 450

W 1965³

1944²

M M Mollet

N

1957²

A A M Lowe

B

1944²

R H Dudley

H

1957³

R J Foster 450

E 1966¹

D

1944³

S Kassum

N 1957³

J R G Traill

G

K

1944³

R Miller

N

1957³

P B Yarrow

L E Peterken CBE

G

1945²

R H Woolley

W

1957³

G D Unwin

K

1966²

A M Pelham Burn MBE

E

1945³

Professor I H Maitland

H

1958¹

J S Shawyer

D

1966³

J C G Stancliffe

G

1945³

D A Proger

D

1958²

J A N Prenn

H

1966³

Dr F C Worlock

D

1946²

R C A Walker

P 1958²

G J M Downes

N

1966³

Dr R H Levy

P

1946²

A de Grunwald

R 1958²

A J Cator

P

1966³

E C O Owen 450

D 1946³

R F Foster

D 1958³

D W Dennis

D

J C P Herrtage

450

450

450

D 1946³

P D Tuckett

E 1946³

P M Beckwith OBE

T Gold Blyth

G

1946³

J D Ferguson

R

Dr D G Spencer

450

450

R B B Ropner 450

D H O Owen OBE

450

1957¹

450

1957²

1958³

450

R 1965³

1966¹ 1966¹

D 1966²

R 1966³

450

R 1966³

450

E 1958³

T E Olesen

R

1967¹

G Meakin 450

G 1958³

F Nicholson

E

1967²

1946³

R G N Nabarro OBE

R

The Hon Robert Orr-Ewing

E

1967²

D

1947²

J M St J Harris

E 1959²

W G S Massey QC 450

K 1967²

Sir Richard Baker Wilbraham Bt

H

1947²

C W Ingram

K

1959²

R H C Phillips

W

1967²

Major J H H Peile

H

1947²

B G D Blair QC

D

1959³

W S Johnston

D

1967³

Professor J Hedley-Whyte

M

1947²

J R B McBeath 450

H 1967³

450

450

1958³

General Sir Peter de la Billiere DL 450 G 1947³

1960s

A W Hakim

D

1948²

J F Royle

G

1960²

W R S Payne

N

H Lang

P

1948²

J G Tregoning

G

1960²

G D C Paterson 450

P 1967³

J Miller CBE 450

W 1948²

P T Streeter 450

Dr N K Coni

D

1948³

A C G Mackie

B J Livingston

E

1948³

E J M Child Villiers

W

1948³

R J Stanes

D

R M N Green

The Rev’d Hugh Symes-Thompson 450 H 1967³ 1967³

H 1960²

J B Steel QC

M 1960²

R C Abrams

S J D Posford

M

1960²

N J Frankau

G

1968²

His Honour Judge Darroch

N

1960²

M T Harris

G

1968²

1949¹

A P K Boyle OBE 450

D 1960³

N H T Wrigley

G

1968²

G

1949¹

E A C Crump 450

H 1960³

A T Lawson-Cruttenden

H

1968²

P J Mercer

G

1949²

E C D Sixsmith

K

1960³

R J R Seligman

R

1968²

I L White-Thomson

G

1949²

C H Gregson

M

1960³

C J Hopton

D

1968³

W M Wasbrough

W

1949²

Dr C J D Catto

N 1960³

C A Meaden

R

1968³

C D Massiah

B

1949³

N Forrest 450

N 1960³

M W Hall

450

R G Seymour

D

1949³

W E Whitehouse-Vaux

450

M C A Blair

E

1949³

J H Cook 450

450

450

P 1969¹

H 1969²

N 1960³

S A Fosh

J K S Morgan

B 1961¹

N L Philips

B

1969³

Sir John Beckwith CBE

D

1961¹

G L T D Kronsten

M

1969³

Colonel S A StJ Miller RAMC 1950s

1967³

W 1967³

R 1960³

450

R

450

450

450

H 1969²

J W Whitworth

D

1950²

T G Proger

D

1961²

C A H Kemp

E

1950²

M K Whitelock

E

1961²

C Byford

D

1950³

I F M Ellvers 450

G 1961²

K V B Day

N

1970¹

L G Tenison Mosse 450

K 1950³

R E S S Baden-Powell

H

1961²

Sir William Worsley Bt

G

1970²

A E Oppenheimer

R

1951²

J W Servaes

D

1961³

J P M Baron

N

1970²

Lord Butler of Brockwell

D

1951³

S D Pollock-Hill

G

1961³

F P M P de Lisle

P

1970²

C N McCorquodale 450

E 1951³

T G Dahl FRSA 450

M 1961³

J F Davis

J H Proctor OBE

G

1951³

A P J Wilson

D

S E H Lamb

G

1970³

P R J Crawfurd

D

1952²

N G Stafford Allen 450

H 1962¹

D H Woolley

G

1970³

M G C O’Connor

D

1952²

M G Copeland 450

E 1962²

J A Stuart-Grumbar

E 1962²

R R Thayer

R

1970³

G 1962²

R C Compton

W

1970³

1962¹

1970s

D 1970³

450

450

K 1970³

The Hon Brian Alexander 450

H 1952²

T A F Kemp 450

J D C Vargas

D

1952³

Cllr H W V Meares

F C Minoprio

M

1952³

S J Richards

G

1962²

Dr M P Seed 450

E 1971²

N T Casdagli

G

1953²

R N Readman

H

1962²

M K Fosh

H

1971²

J W Harris 450

E 1953³

J F R Hayes

M

1962²

P N C Talbot

M

1971²

M L Maydon

G

P R W Hensman OBE 450

W 1962²

C W P Thwaites

G

1971³

H 1953³

H R T Summerson

E

1962³

A M Sinclair

N

1971³

M 1953³

M J Keenan

W

1962³

D C Edward

W

1971³

R J Grindell

D

1954²

J Bliss 450

N 1963¹

R C W Odey

D

1972¹

R J Hermon-Taylor

D

1954³

D C M Blackburn 450

P 1963²

T D C Woolland

P de F Hicks Jr

D

1954³

Dr A O Wilson 450

P 1963²

J A Smouha

N

W E F Samuel

D

1954³

D N Reilly CBE 450

R 1963²

J P Batting 450

P 1972²

Lt Cdr C W Hunter RN

G

1954³

P Ingham

B

1963³

D F T Wright

P

1972²

S M B Davison

G

1955²

M S Hunter

M

1963³

Dr E P R Currie

B

1972³

J C R Dennis OBE 450

B 1955³

L D M Seligman 450

R 1963³

J D S Fricker

E

1972³

H K Leventis 450

D 1955³

H H F Summerson

E

C W A Bott

G

1972³

P H Seed

D

1955³

R A Harrison 450

N 1964¹

C H Gallagher

H

1972³

Sir Hugh Stevenson

P

1955³

J N Green 450

G 1964²

M P N Bardsley

K

1972³

N 1964²

R M Tindall

M

1972³

B 1964³

T C Marsden-Smedley

P

1972³

D C Wallace

450

N M Bolingbroke-Kent

450

A B Graham

C J Hue Williams

B

1956²

R W Pleydell-Bouverie

T R de Zoete

W

1956²

Lt Col C H Braithwaite

D

1964³

D W E Orr

450

1964¹

H 1956¹

G St E C Lofts

1953³

450

450

450

450

R F de Robeck 450

D 1956³

E J W Houghton

D

1964³

P D C Wigan

J G W Feggetter DL 450

D 1956³

N E McCorquodale

E

1964³

M D Astaire

M T Brookes

E

J H de D Richardson 450

E 1964³

1956³

450

450

M 1972¹

W 1972³ D

E A C Cottrell

1972²

1973¹

H 1973¹ K

1973¹

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1980s

C R Bain

P

H 1973²

M B Buckland Bluett

G

1980¹

J M Barkes 450

R 1985³

D G Howes

W

1973²

G G Winn-Darley

G

1980¹

M E Davidson

H Stirrat

W

1973²

C Bonomi

H

1980¹

The Hon William Hotham

J E Metcalfe OBE

E

1973³

H J P Farr

P

1980¹

R E C Power

H

Vicomte Roland de Rosiere KM

G

1973³

R J MacKechnie

D

1980³

B R Ingram 450

N 1986¹

C P Latilla-Campbell

G

1973³

J H F Cleeve

G

1980³

T J Hughes

K

M Z Lewczynski

G

1973³

D S Dansingani

G

1980³

D A G Tait

D H Moss J B Fosh

B

450

1973²

R 450

1985³ 1985³

E 1986¹ 1986¹ 1986²

D 1986³

450

K 1973³

G R Hulse

G

1980³

G R Hartley

R J Dent

M

1973³

R A J Hills

H

1980³

J A E Rous

C W N Bankes

N

1973³

N R B Bullock

R 1980³

A G Stirling

J H S Akerman

P

1973³

A B Treherne Pollock 450

E 1981¹

J-P Cope 450

H 1986³

Lt Col J D Gibbons OBE

P

1973³

A J Wills 450

E 1981¹

J A Stabb

H

D P Wiggin 450

W 1973³

J Kennedy

H

C W Tan

W N G Taylor

B

1974¹

J L McCurrach 450

H 1981²

R S Keigwin

C G Hamilton-Stubber

D

1974¹

S D Reid

M

J G A Luck

M C J Baddeley

E

1974¹

R T Brankin-Frisby

D 1981³

P T-A Wong

D E C Lewis-Barclay

H

1974¹

J A C Campbell-Johnston 450

D 1981³

C L Keey

J R Owen

K

1974¹

J L J Gurney

D

1981³

J R Gillions

C H St J Hoare

N

1974¹

T W H Lloyd-Jones

D

1981³

R M Edye

P A Ferrari

D

1974²

T J Gibbons

E

1981³

A M Thomas

D S Levy

D

1974²

J E de B de B de Broë-Ferguson

G

1981³

Q M J Ings-Chambers

H

1987³

E C Gordon Lennox

G

1974²

The Hon Andrew Butler QC

K

1981³

A C C Wong

P

1987³

The Hon Anthony Monckton

G

1974²

S D C Harman

M

1981³

B L K Aggrey Orleans

L B E Ash

450

K 1974²

450

450

1981¹ 1981²

450

E

G 1986³

450

1986³

R 1986³ W

1986³

D 1987¹

450

E

1987³

G 1987³

450

450

1986³

K 1986³ N

450

1986³

E 1986³

450

G 1987³

450

R 1987³

A W Sexton

M

1981³

M C P Hammond

B

Major Gen M L Riddell-Webster CBE 450 K

1974²

A Bance

P

1981³

K M Lyman 450

B 1988³

J C R Pitcairn

R

1974²

B J Kirkland 450

B 1982¹

P A Mosimann

B

1988³

A A C Bayne

B

1974³

A C Malcolmson

D

H St J R Foster

D

1988³

J J S Payne

D

1974³

J E Connell 450

R 1982¹

N W Blake

G

1988³

A B Dick-Cleland 450

P 1974³

R 1982¹

C T Hussey

I T Tower

P

1974³

C P Theobald 450

P 1982²

J R J Muirie

S A O Phillips

H

1975¹

R B Piepenstock

B

1982³

B A P Regnard-Winrabe 450

H 1988³

J Wyn-Evans

H

1975¹

T M T O’Connor

D

1982³

A R E Ash

K

1975²

R C Gaussen

P S L Lau

K

1975²

C D Pycraft

450

C S Farr

P

1975²

B E Kryca

N P Mehta 450

D 1975³

A D S Prenn

H

D H W Dashwood

450

M P B Gibson

450

450

450

H 1988³

H 1988³

450

G J A Keith

K

E 1982³

M C L Parkinson 450

K 1988³

1988³

E 1982³

S N K Hirdaramani

P

1988³

M 1982³

R P R Hoffen

R

1988³

D C Manasseh

M

1982³

A G Haldane

B

1989³

1975³

A C W Snow

R

1982³

D R Martin

B

1989³

K 1975³

A R L Banks

G

1983¹

G H R Munton

H

1989³

S P R Vivian

K

1975³

Sir Alexander Skipwith Bt

G 1983¹

S A Stock MA 450

K 1989³

S A Taylor

N

1975³

J M P D Stroyan

G

1983¹

Q J S G Baker

M

1989³

J I R Charatan

R

1975³

J Regnier-Wilson

N

1983¹

M G Hatcher

M

1989³

J Miller

W

1975³

C R O’Connor-Fenton

P

1983¹

D’V C Jacobs

P

1989³

N H Moss

K

1976¹

M J Morgan

R

1983¹

T S Montgomery

P

1989³

A G Wauchope

K

1976¹

S D Martle

B

1983³

H Kemble-Clarkson

H G Williams 450

R 1976¹

R D Nelson

B

1983³

A D Lane 450

T S Ashley-Smith

B

1976³

L A Kunzig IV 450

D 1983³

I W de V Gibson

K

1976³

C O Bridgeman

E

1983³

1990s

C N Gooch

N

1976³

J W Mackenzie

G

1983³

J P O Lindemann

A R Varley 450

R 1976³

R P Trotter

H

1983³

A Y Fang 450

Dr C R Warren

G

1983³

T W Riddell-Webster

A D Hart

450

450

D R N Scaife

450

450

A T Nehorai

450

R 1989³ W 1989³

450

W 1990¹ B 1990³

D 1990³

A Kumar

M

W 1977¹

H T Wong 450

W 1983³

R D C R Pollock-Hill

K

S G G Witheridge

G

Count G T Revedin di San Martino

K

1990³

R 1984¹

G M Parker

N

1990³

E J R Cable

B

1991³ 1991³

1977²

450

G 1990³

J R Barkes

H 1977³

J A T Hulbert

R

P-C Lehrell

N

1977³

R C R Sagar-Musgrave 450

M 1984²

S D G Engelen

D

T W Waterfield

N

1977³

A H E P Walduck

W

1984²

H C Guest 450

D 1991³

C H Warren 450

P 1977³

J D Orme-Smith

D

1984³

M Mantis

D

J M Warren

P

C J A Virgin 450

E 1984³

J F M Newall

G

450

A G Douglas-Miller

450

450

B 1978¹

F J Blake

R A Raban-Williams

D

1978³

M C Wallace

P J Haigney

E

1978³

R L S Churchill

G

1978³

G

1978³

S J Hunt

S E Munir

450

1977³

1984¹

450

M 1977²

J B Neame

1977¹

1982¹

1988³

1984¹

1991³

D 1991³

W A T Gillions

E

H 1984³

M E J Thomas 450

N 1991³

M C Bruno

K

1984³

P M Molloy

Q A Hinxman

K

1984³

G R Schaad-Jackson

450

P

450

1991³ 1991³

P 1991³

K 1984³

A D F Campbell

W

1991³

K 1984³

G L Duder

B

1992³

S B Schmidt

N

M C W Lamb

H

1992³

1978³

S R Daniel 450

P 1984³

C A M Watenphul

K

1992³

K

1978³

V K Hirdaramani

P

1984³

S C-C Zee 450

K 1992³

The Hon Andrew Millett

N

1978³

C J J Bonas

R

R P Douglas-Miller OBE 450

P 1978³

B F R Bradkin

S A B Greig

P

W M Emus 450

R 1978³

A H Kent

450

G 1978³

K M Wilkins

M F Morley-Fletcher

H

1978³

D A Carden

K

Dr S J Sebag-Montefiore

W J F Landale

450

1984³

450

1984³

M 1992³

1984³

C F R Hayes

R 1984³

J E Prentice

M

1992³

K S B Duffy 450

W 1984³

A C Alban-Moore

R

1992³

A J D Eynon

B

1985¹

C A M Boileau 450

R 1992³

1985¹

450

450

R 1978³

R L J Arnott

E

H B I I Cheape

B

1993³

D 1979¹

R G Mackenzie 450

G 1985¹

T A T Davies

B

1993³

O A A Dajani

M

1979¹

S G Pampanini

N

1985¹

G E Donald

B

1993³

R J M Keatley

W

1979¹

H J R Bond Gunning

W

1985¹

C J R Wilson

D

1993³

S M Levy

D

1979²

P C G Witheridge

G

1985³

J G B Taylor

E

1993³

D 1979²

J T Blake

H

1985³

F N G Jones

H

1993³

E 1979³

J L Pool

H

1985³

W J L Matthews

H

1993³

I J F Royle

G

1979³

J J Raymond

K 1985³

N W S Munton

H

1993³

A J B Smith

K

1979³

J W A England

N 1985³

L C L Fitzwilliams

N

1993³

N

J A R Freeman

N

1993³

J P J Glover

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450

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H C S McLean T P Barrow

450

1978³

450

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N Khan

450

450

1985³

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O G J M Scutt

N

1993³

M H Greaves

P

2004³

A W A Moses-Taiga 450

D 2015³

C D M Thorburn

N

1993³

S F Lawrence

H

2005³

B B Moses-Taiga 450

D 2015³

S M Connell

R

1993³

W K Michele

H

2005³

A D Moses-Taiga 450

D 2015³

J D A Baldwin

G

1994³

P R Ashton

M

2005³

N M Nasim 450

D 2015³

A P J Priestley

G

1994³

J J P Jolly

M

2005³

W R J Blunt

T L Richards

G

1994³

A C MacRae

R

2005³

K T K Lee

E

2015³

W H Ellis

H

1994³

A A A Nelson

W

2006³

B D T Davies

G

2015³

A E C Gray

H

1994³

A K Shankar

E

2007³

A C Holmes

G

2015³

J W B Neame

M

1994³

A Selvan

W 2007³

T W C Tang 450

G 2015³

B I A Maclean

R

1994³

S G Hardy

D 2008³

E G S Prime

450

H 2015³

C R D Arthy

W

1994³

O S E Verhagen

K

2008³

A J Leung

J D Rosemont

W

1994³

T T Konishi-Dukes

E

2009³

A Shumeyko

Captain H J B Gates

D

1995³

T A van Straubenzee

E

1995³

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F J Goedhuis

G

1995³

P K Gajland

M J L Macaulay

G

1995³

N C R Andjel

H

O E Craven

H

450

450

J X Wang

450

450

E 2015³

L 2015³

450

M 2015³

M 2015³

450

L H Ng

N

2015³

D 2010³

C P T Davidson

R

2015³

G O M Hart

E

T M Khan

W

2015³

1995³

E S McGovern 450

K 2010³

R-Q Li

D

2016³

1995³

D Bernardi

N 2010³

N D O T Franklyn

450

450

2010³

450

H 2016³

J B Goodhew 450

M 1995³

M Kravets

G

2011³

W A C Wallace 450

H 2016³

W P R Petty

M

1995³

Z H Xie

H

2011³

H M A Farquhar

L

2016³

E N Poulter

N

1995³

R W R Craig

L

2011³

K H J Ho

N

2016³

W B Bryan

P

1995³

M J F Berry

M

2011³

F A Strange 450

N 2016³

C J D Hall

W

1995³

H M C Collins

R 2012³

S Moon

T W B Forman Hardy

D

1996³

O L B Chalmers

B

2013³

S M W Ackroyd

W

2016³

J L Watts

H

1996³

N L Gardner

B

2013³

J K K Bedu-Addo

W

2016³

K 1996³

H A Lee-Clarke

B

2013³

A O F Ajibola

The Earl of Haddo

M

1996³

S G T Tallis

D

2013³

A Y Jeong

K

2017³

B J Hypolite

N

1996³

A R Bullen

E

2013³

B B Coldicott

N

2017³

E S Seligman

N

1996³

C E G Hart

E

2013³

L W J Rienow 450

B 2018³

C T Lochotinan

P

1996³

J P Herron

G

2013³

K H L Keey

D

A M Lea-Cox

D

1997³

A Rahman

G

2013³

P H A V Nguyen 450

G 2018³

C R Reid

H

1997³

J E Leof

H

2013³

J W Artis 450

H 2018³

N H D Willis

H

1997³

G C T Grassly

K

2013³

M C Kantaris

J D O R Schneider 450

K 1997³

B T W Lau

K

2013³

H W W Rowntree

K S Behal

M

1997³

B T Ryland

L

2013³

A F Da Silveira Pinheiro

T B Rogers

P

1997³

J Shanahan

L

T W V French

W

1997³

P Yeh

L

J C R MacLeod 450

B 1998³

O C Acar

Father Ben Eadon 450

D 1998³

G F J Yarrow 450

D 1998³

W R Orr-Ewing

E

T H Adcock

G

M H Johnson

G

H R G Syms

M S Marks

450

450

450

450

P 2016³

B 2017³

450

450

L 2018³ M

P 2018³

2013³

H W W McCreanor 450

P 2018³

2013³

H J Ridley

M

2013³

K Au-Yeung 450

B 2019³

G C Barry

M

2013³

M F Hotham

R 2019³

L H F Berry

M

2013³

1998³

F G Hall

M

2013³

1998³

G O Adebiyi 450

N 2013³

Mr D K Baines

1998³

R A Babaoye

N

Mrs K Barnes

O T Brankin-Frisby 450

N 2013³

Mr I D S Beer CBE JP 450

H 1998³

2013³

450

450

Governors, Staff & Former Staff 450

M

1998³

A L Kenda 450

N 2013³

Mrs J R Bellringer

H T F Woolley

M

1998³

G O Watson

N

2013³

Mrs M S Brounger

N 1998³

M W Ayliffe

P

2013³

Mr D L Collins 450

R 1998³

G P T Gray

P

2013³

Mr J M Eaton

E 1999³

K M I Kandour

P

2013³

Professor P Ellis & Dr I Dove-Edwin 450

N

P Kochakarn

P

2013³

Miss D Hannaway 450

R 1999³

J J Kyd

P

2013³

Dr F G Hardy

G R Allen

W

1999³

H G Fry

R

2013³

Mr J B Hawkins 450

C G L Hall

W

1999³

K C Krause

R

2013³

Mr E W Higgins 450

A D Masri

R

2013³

Mr P D Hunter 450

A O Pearse

R

2013³

Mr W M A Land 450

450

G W Dennis

450

J Wigley

450

B J Figgures-Wilson W J B Davies

450

1999³

2000s B T Allen

B

2000³

M G A Chetwynd-Talbot

W

2013³

Mr L J Meadows

J C Poole

B

2000³

T Y Keeble

W

2013³

Mr & Mrs A S W Mould

J A B Orr-Ewing

E

2000³

B J Menell

W

2013³

Dr G Patterson 450

B O French 450

G 2000³

M Tasker

W

2013³

Mr T W J Phillips

G J George

M

2000³

G C R Warmback

A Bhutiani

N

2000³

N 2014¹

The Revd J E Power 450

R A J Coates

B

2014³

Mrs C I Sampson 450

P 2000³

G E Smith

B

2014³

Mrs P R Shryane

J J B Snow 450

R 2000³

M H G Evans-Tovey

D

2014³

Mr W J Vaughan

W D B Fortune

B

T H D M Franck

D

2014³

Mrs C Walker

D 2001³

C F T Tallis

D

2014³

Mrs P Warwick-Smith

E

D P Cook

G

2014³

Mrs G C Whitmee

E 2001³

M T Powell

G

2014³

Mr W G H Young 450

G

2001³

E R Joyce

H

2014³

J E Haycock

K

2001³

T P T Chan

K

2014³

Harrow Parents & Friends

D T K Ho 450

M 2001³

Y Koshiba

L

2014³

Mr J M Abaroa

A Yaqub-Khan

M

W J F Tallentire

L

2014³

Mr N M Abbas

W 2001³

L C Acar

M

2014³

Mr A Abenov & Mrs A Temirtas

R A Swanson

D

2002³

N J F Berry

M

2014³

Mr & Mrs B Acar

F C McClure

G

2002³

J F M Larard

N

2014³

Mr A Adams 450

W A Martin 450

K 2002³

D D Shortt

N

2014³

Mrs O Adebiyi

P 2002³

A K Bhatnagar

P

2014³

Mr & Mrs O Adetula 450

K

J D Gibbons

P

2014³

Mr & Mrs D K T Adomakoh 450

P 2003³

J J Cullimore

R

2014³

Mr R Agostinelli

S M Stewart

G

2004³

C G A Grundy

R

2014³

Mr & Mrs A Ajibola

D J O’Sullivan

H

2004³

I R Norat

W

2014³

Mrs C Alabi

J Shah 450

H 2004³

H A Stephenson

W

2014³

Mrs M Alaka 450

N 2004³

J E Langston 450

D 2015³

Mr J Al-Kanani

A C M Wolf Galimberti

A K-B Cheng

450

450

E M N Baker-Martins N E M Wingfield Digby T S T Lee

P L S I Ali-Noor

A G Johnson

450

450

M W R Z Szymanski T C Batting

450

D J H Draper

450

450

2018³

450

A J Druttman N G A Edge

2018³

2001³ 2001³

2001³

2003³

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450

P 2018³

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Lt Col & Mrs P Allen 450

Mr & Mrs N P Cremin

Mr Y Huang

Mr & Mrs E Amissah 450

Mrs C Curtis

Mr Y Huo & Ms X Fang

Dr & Mrs S H C Anderson 450

Mr & Mrs D Cushley

Mr & Ms M T Inpan 450

Dr & Mrs M Apabhai 450

Mr & Mrs F Da Silveira Pinheiro 450

Mr & Mrs N Ittipakorn

Mr & Mrs B Arora

Mr Y Dai & Mrs X Zhang

Mr K Ivanyan & Mrs M Grinfeldt-Ivanian

Mrs G Ashkenazi 450

Sir Edward & Lady Dashwood

Mr & Mrs R D Jack

Mr & Mrs S A Ashley 450

Mr & Mrs N M Davies

Mr & Mrs H D Jeong

Mr K I Asokan & Mrs E Bala

Mr & Mrs R de Hemptinne 450

Mr H Jiang & Ms W Zhou 450

Mr & Mrs W Asprey

Mr N Deane

Mr & Mrs W A Jodrell

Mr & Mrs A Au-Yeung 450

Mr & Mrs R K Debrah 450

Dr & Dr B Jones 450

Mr & Mrs A Awolesi 450

Mr & Mrs K Denman 450

Mrs T Josserand 450

Mrs R L Ayliffe 450

Mr F S Dewotor & Ms E Panshina 450

Mrs S C Joyce

Mr H Bai & Mrs C L Wong

Sheriff R H Dickson

Mr N F A Kamil 450

Mrs L H A Balagova Kandour

Mr X Ding & Mrs Y Zhang

Mr & Mrs M Kane

Mr & Mrs C J Ball

Mr & Mrs M C Doros 450

Mr & Dr C Kantaris

Mr & Mrs T Ball

Mrs L Doughty 450

Mr & Dr S Karri 450

Mr & Mrs J Balogun

Mr & Mrs B Dreesmann 450

Mr & Mrs A Kaztayev

Mr & Mrs C D Banfield 450

Mr & Mrs H J Du Toit 450

Mr M P Keeble

Mr & Mrs P J C Barley

Mr T J Duggan

Dr L Kenda

Mr & Mrs R Barry

Mr & Mrs J F T Dundas

Mr T A J Khan & Ms S V Gibaud-Khan

Mr & Mrs T Basran 450

Mr & Mrs A P Dunn 450

Mr A Y Kim & Mrs J Lee

Mr G W Bater & Ms K M E Hudson 450

Mr I Egorov

Dr D W Kinaro

Ms Z Bavakunji 450

Mr N J Ekpenyong & Ms N E Xenofontova 450

Mr & Mrs A Kingsley 450

Mr & Mrs K A Bedu-Addo 450

Mr & Mrs J R Elliot

Mr & Mrs T Kitada

Mr & Mrs C Benigni

Mr & Dr M K Elliott 450

Professor W Kochakarn

Mr & Mrs R Bernardi 450

Mrs A P Engelen

Mr S Kohli

Mr J C H Berry

Mr & Mrs J P Esposito 450

Mr & Mrs A Kolawole 450

Mr R Betolaza & Mrs N Gispert de Chia

Mr S Eu

Mr T C T Kong & Ms W R Xing

Mr & Mrs G Bhatnagar

Mr & Mrs J Evans-Tovey

Mr D Korobkov

Ms D Biles

Mr & Mrs A J Everall 450

Mrs L Krause

Mr & Mrs M N Black

Mr & Mrs M Falco

Dr J Kumari

Mr & Mrs R C Blunt 450

Mr & Mrs E P H Farquhar

Vice Admiral J P Kyd 450

Mr & Mrs J Boegh-Nielsen 450

Mr & Mrs S Ferneyhough

Mr & Mrs A Lam 450

Ms J Bojko

Mr K S Fong

Mr & Mrs B Lam

Mr & Mrs S N Boland 450

Mr J L Fontana & Mrs P Satrustegui

Dr & Mrs T Y D Lam

Mr S J Boreham & Ms E J Crawford 450

Mr & Mrs R Forrest 450

Mr & Mrs J K W Lam

Miss S L Bradshaw 450

Mr S L Foster

Mr & Mrs G B Langston 450

Mr & Mrs G Breeze 450

Mr & Mrs S C Francis 450

Mr & Mrs P Lanni 450

Mr & Mrs P Brindley 450

Dr & Mrs J O P Franklyn

Mr & Mrs A Latham

Mr & Mrs R D Brown 450

Mr W Fu and Ms L Yuan

Mrs L Law 450

Mr & Mrs N F Bullen 450

Mr & Mrs J S P Fulford 450

Ms E A Lawless 450

Mrs M Burston

Mr & Mrs J S Gallagher 450

Mr & Mrs N J A Lawson 450

Mr & Mrs R Burt

Mr V Gandhi

Dr K Y Lee & Ms H C Lai

Mr K O Butler-Wheelhouse

Mr A Gardner & Mrs A Mac-Crohon Gardner 450

Mr S Y Lee & Mrs Y Y Li

Mr & Mrs N F Buxton

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

Mrs S Lee-Clarke

Mr & Mrs J Campbell

Mr C Getty

Mr & Mrs J J Leney 450

Mr P Cashmore

Mr G S L Gianasso

Mr & Mrs B Leonard 450

Mrs B C Chalmers

Mr & Mrs M G Gibson 450

Mr & Mrs G Leong

Mr K C A Chan & Ms H K J Tin

Mr & Mrs J W L Gillams

Mr & Mrs G Letchford

Mr C L Chan & Mrs S L Ma 450

Mr & Mrs D Glaze

Mr & Mrs J Leung

Dr & Mrs R Chan 450

Mr E S Gleason & Ms P J Robinson

Mr K Leung & Ms J Ng

Mr & Mrs K Chanana

Mr & Mrs H C Goldberg

Mr N Li & Mrs W Zhu

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

Mr & Mrs A A Gosden

Mr Z Li & Ms N Xu

Mr & Mrs K M Chau

Mr C P J Gower & Ms R G Johannes

Mr J Lian & Mrs S Hsueh

Mr & Mrs L E Chauveau

Mrs J K V Graham MBE

M T N Liddiard OBE MStJ JP 450

Mr & Mrs C K M Cheah

Mr R C Grassly

Mr K C H Lin & Mrs M Koshiba Lin 450

Mr & Mrs T Chen 450

Mr & Mrs P D Gray 450

Mr & Mrs J M Linares

Mr K Chen 450

Mr M A J Gregory

Professor & Mrs C Liu 450

Mr L R Chen & Ms S X Ding

Mr & Mrs J Grundy

Mr H Liu & Ms R Zhang

Mr Y H Chen & Ms M C Luk 450

Mr C Gu & Mrs W Jiang 450

Mr E K Y Lo

Mr & Mrs A K-C Cheng

Mr M Gujadhur & Ms H S Gujadhur Bell 450

Mr & Mrs R Locke

Mr E Cherpion & Mrs I Vander Elst

Mr C Guo & Mrs L Wang 450

Mr M Lorrimore

Mrs P J Chetwynd-Talbot

Mr & Mrs G Gupta

Mr Y C Cheung & Ms H M Wang

Mr V Gurinov & Mrs G Guinova

Mrs T Chiimba 450

Mr & Mrs G Hall

Mr & Mrs F C R Ludlam 450

Mr & Ms J B Childs

Mrs A E Hall-Williams

Mr & Mrs J V Macdonald 450

Mr W S D Chin & Ms K C Wong

Mr & Mrs A H Hammad

Mr C I C MacGregor

Mr C S Ching & Ms Y Y Tsang 450

Mr P Hancock

Mr & Mrs R A C Mackay 450

Mr D Chiu & Mrs Y N N So

Mr & Mrs C P Hargreaves

Mrs O Magomedova 450

Mr J K M Chow & Ms N M A Chan

Mr & Mrs J D Harrison 450

Mr A C Maia & Ms T Stalker

Mr W W S Chow & Ms M M L Lok

Mr & Mrs P Harrison

Mr G Majed & Ms C Gale 450

Mr S S Y Chung & Mrs T S Y Ng

Mr & Mrs T Haston

Mr A N Majumdar & Mrs I R Carvigan 450

Mr & Mrs A Classen

Mr J G Hawley

Mr & Mrs M Mak 450

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Mr & Mrs S Coates

Ms T N Helfet

Mrs F S Maloney

Mr A K J Codrington 450

Mr & Mrs M L Herron

Mr S C Martin & Dr L Lakasing 450

Mr & Mrs A Coghlan

Mr & Mrs U R W Herschel 450

Mr & Mrs M J Martins 450

Ms F H Coldicott

Mr & Mrs R M Hill

Mr J Masri

Mr M Coldicott

Mr S C Ho & Ms S Y Chan

Mr & Mrs J W E McCorquodale 450

Mr & Mrs A M Collins 450

Mr W W Ho & Ms K W Cheung

Mr & Mrs P A McCreanor 450

Dr & Mrs R E Cook

Mrs Y Hong 450

Mr & Mrs S C McDermid

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Mr & Mrs N Hoshi 450

Mrs J McDowell 450

Mrs M G Crawley

Mr D Hu & Mrs L Yang 450

Mr & Mrs R S McDowell 450

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Mr A M Love 450

Dr & Dr R Lubbe 450

B – Bradbys D – Druries E – Elmfield G – The Grove H – The Head Master’s K – The Knoll L – Lyon’s M – Moretons N – Newlands

Mrs C McFadden

Professor & Mrs B P Saunders

Mr & Mrs K McGuinness

Baron & Baroness P C W Schell

Mr B M Menell

Mr & Mrs C Selvan

Mr & Mrs R A R Middle

Mr A Setsu & Ms N Wang

Mr & Mrs D P Miell

Mrs H Shanahan

450

Mr C Mills

Mrs V S Sharron

Mr & Mrs B Mingay

Mr & Mrs A V Sheopuri

Mr T Mitchell & Ms T L Falk-Mitchell

Mr & Mrs R S M Shepherd

Mr J I Moon & Mrs J Park 450

Dr C H Shin & Mrs M J Song

Mr & Mrs R H J Moore

Mr S Shishkarev & Mrs O Shishkareva

Mrs M T Morgan

Mr & Mrs D Shortt 450

Mr & Mrs C E S Morrison 450

Mr & Mrs A Shumeyko

Mr A A Müller & Mrs S L Foster 450

Mr & Mrs E Shvidler 450

Mr S Mynbayev

Mr & Mrs H J Sims-Hilditch

Mr & Mrs Y Nakagawa

Mr R P Singh & Ms A Dhillon

Mr & Mrs A Nakhmanovich

Mrs C Sitbon-Robson

Mrs K Nekrasova

Mr D Smith & Ms L Letcher 450

Mr & Mrs P J G Newman

Mr & Mrs J Smith

Mr K Y Ng & Mdm P Chen

Mr M J Smith

Mr W L Ng & Mrs F H Ng Leung

Mr & Mrs P J Smith

Dr & Dr T H Nguyen

Mrs Y Smith 450

Mr & Mrs O Obatoyinbo

Mr B So & Ms D Li

Mr P R Oberschneider & Ms M C Hauser-Oberschneider

Mr & Mrs S S Sohal 450

Mr & Mrs D T O’Brien

Mr F Song & Mrs X Xu 450

Mr & Mrs M O’Brien

Mr T Sotir & Ms T Cleminshaw 450

Mrs K O’Callaghan 450

Mr & Mrs T J Stephenson

Mr & Mrs J A Odofin 450

Mr & Mrs E A Strange 450

Mr & Mrs A O Odunsi

Mr & Mrs B Stratton 450

Mr & Mrs R J Oelhafen

Mr & Mrs O M Stratton 450

Mr & Mrs N O’Hara

Miss M H Stubinski 450

Mr & Mrs A Ojomo 450

Mr & Dr J Sule 450

Mr D L Older & Mrs C R Gut 450

Dr A H T Sumathipala 450

Dr K & Dr A Olowe

Mr L Sun & Mrs F Huang 450

Mr & Mrs J Ovia

Mr & Mrs R St. J B Sutherland 450

Mr & Mrs A M Oyegade

Mr & Mrs I M Swanson

Mr & Mrs V Palasuntheram

Chief & Mrs M Taiga

Mr H Pang & Ms K Y K Leung 450

Mr & Mrs C Talbot

Mr K H Park & Mrs H J Yang

Mrs E Tallentire

Mr H Parker

Mr & Mrs S E J Tallis 450

Mr & Mrs J B G Parry-George 450

Mr H Tang & Mrs Q Ai 450

Mr J R Parslow

Mr Y M Tang & Miss M C Tai

Mr N R W Parslow

Mr & Mrs J L Tanner

Dr C Pase 450

Mr A J Tasker

Dr B Pearse

Mr G W Taunton Collins

Mr V Peganov

Mr & Mrs D Taylor

Dr A Pereira Coutinho

Mr & Mrs S J Taylor 450

Mr I Antipovskiy and Mrs T Pereyma

Mr & Mrs N Teepsuwan

Mr B Perez Arauna

Mr P J Timlin & Ms D W Muchiri 450

Mr & Mrs J K Pittalis

Mr & Mrs D C Tippett

Mr F Polese 450

Mr & Mrs K To

Mr A Ponomarenko and Mrs N Rozhkova

Mr & Mrs L Trudel 450

Mr D V Ponomarev & Mrs E Malinko

Mr T Tsoi & Mrs M Wang

Mr & Mrs I H F Potter 450

Mr & Mrs M Tung 450

Mr & Mrs R C Powell

Mr & Mrs N Ul-Ghani

Mr & Mrs A L Preston

Mr & Mrs A Unuigbe

Mr S R Pringle 450

Mr C Van Aeken & Mrs K De Wulf 450

Mr S E & Lady Prior-Palmer

Mr & Mrs P Van Surell

Mr & Mrs V Puri

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

Mr & Mrs S V O Quist

Mr B J J Walker 450

Mr & Mrs C Radcliffe

Mr & Mrs G C Walsh 450

Mr M Rahman

Mr & Mrs M C Walton

Mrs N Rahman

Mrs M L Wang 450

Mr & Mrs S Raithatha 450

Mr & Mrs H G Watson 450

Mr N Ramchandani

Mr & Mrs R N Weatherby

Mr U U Rashid & Ms T M U Rehman 450

Ms S Weena 450

Mr & Mrs R L Read

Mr N Welton

Mr & Mrs B J Reid

Miss J L Whiterod 450

Mr & Mrs A W Riddick 450

Mr I J Whitlock

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

Mr & Mrs R Wijeratne

Mr & Mrs J G Rienow

Mr C S S Wilson & Mrs E De La Fossé

Mr & G W Ritchie

Mr N C Wong & Ms P A Mercer 450

Mr J Ro

Mr & Mrs J Woolhouse

Colonel N R Robertson

Mr X Xiang & Ms N Fang 450

Mr & Mrs M T Robinson

Mr J Xu & Mrs C LI

Mr W P Rollason & Ms C E Artis 450

Mr H Yang & Mrs J Lin 450

Mr & Mrs S R C Rowntree 450

Mr P Yang & Mrs W Jia

Mr & Mrs G L Rudd

Mr O Yaroslavskyi & Mrs M Yaroslavska 450

Mr T Ryland

Mr H P Yeo & Ms W Q Chen

Mr D Safronov & Mr M Madden 450

Mr & Mrs R Yeung

Mr & Mrs L Samonas

Mr Z Yin & Ms N Sun

Mr A Sangines-Krause

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

Dr M Sarno

Mr & Mrs K Young 450

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

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e provide key services to the School throughout the year, as well as managing a wide-ranging portfolio of educational and commercial activities. In an average year, HSEL’s turnover is approximately £3 million and our target is to produce a net profit of at least £500,000 for the School. An additional contribution of £350,000 ‘cost absorption’ to the School’s operating expenditure means that HSEL’s contribution to the School is approximately £850,000. While COVID-19 continued to have an impact on our usual operations in 2021 and our normal income was reduced, the HSEL team was creative in its use of School facilities to provide an extensive number of events, filming, educational, sports and outreach activities throughout the School holiday periods.

HSEL is responsible for the operation of the School’s Sports Centre as a ‘dual-use’ facility, enabling over 1,000 local members and staff to use the swimming pool, fitness gyms and sports hall. During the summer, the sporting facilities were fully booked as we played host to the Brentford Football Club Reserve team while their new training grounds were being developed ahead of their entry into the Premier League. Other bookings included Saracens Rugby training, Camp Beaumont day camps, Hockey Lab and Young Harrow Foundation outreach activities.

After a year off due to Covid restrictions, a small number of third-party residential lettings were able to take place in the summer. HSEL welcomed the Philomel Music Academy and a Saracens Rugby training camp to use boarding Houses and School facilities.

With the summer school still unable to go ahead, HSEL operated an online Harrow School Short Courses programme in its place. This offered small-group courses in English, science, business studies and music to children from all over the world. HSSC Online (our online English platform) went from strength to strength, teaching over

HSEL hosted an outdoor cinema on Chapel Terrace

1,250 English lessons across the year. We continued to provide administrative and logistic support to the Lumina university programme, which had its biggest year to date, assisting 409 students from 56 schools with higher education support.

HSEL supported the Young Harrow Foundation in delivering a five-week programme for disadvantaged children from the local area. In total, 1,380 student days were experienced by local young people; this was an increase of 146% on the support we were able to offer in 2020.

In addition, 1,180 free packed lunches were provided for the children.

Weddings were able to take place in the summer

The events team was extremely busy over the holiday periods, particularly over the summer as Covid restrictions relaxed to allow weddings, corporate events and family parties to take place again.

The numbers attending historic tours also grew, especially for the domestic market.

HSEL welcomed five tour groups to the Hill, with one group having an afternoon tea with their party at the end of their tour.

In the summer, in collaboration with Summer Screens, we hosted an outdoor cinema on Chapel Terrace for the first time. The screening of the newly released film In The Heights saw an excellent turnout from the local community. The events team also hosted many tutoring and exam groups, concerts, civil weddings, parties, theatre hires, engagement shoots and a large outdoor wedding on Chapel Terrace. Fortunately, filming was able to continue throughout the Covid lockdown periods. Shoots hosted by HSEL included Tatler’s Schools Guide 2022, an EDF commercial on the School Farm, the BBC drama Split, a Mark Gattis project called The Mezzotint, which will be available to watch on Christmas Day 2021, and a sports advertisement with Maro Itoje (The Grove 20113).

– Harry Ogden, Business Director

HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BANGKOK We began the year in the incredible position of having zero Covid cases in Thailand, a situation that lasted from August until the Christmas holidays. School reopened in August with control measures in place, but as the zero-Covid situation continued, we began playing sports fixtures against local schools again, held our Christmas concert, and planning for the school production of Mamma Mia! was well underway.

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his all changed at Christmas when a second wave of Covid hit Thailand, and we returned to online learning in January.

Remarkably, case numbers were held at a low level, and school returned in February and March, albeit with far less in the way of extra-curricular activities, with more stringent anti-Covid measures restored. The cast of Mamma Mia! were determined that the show would go on, even though there could be no show in front of an audience.

Our talented staff and students instead produced a film version, which we released in term 3 as part of Speech Day. The Songkran (Easter in UK) holiday saw a huge increase in Covid cases, and the whole of term 3 was spent online.

Examinations were cancelled for a second successive year.

The school achieved excellent results, with 71% A* and A grades at A level, and 72% A* and A grades at IGCSE. Our Year 13 students continued to go on to the finest universities, mainly in the UK and the USA, although unsurprisingly we are seeing more staying in Thailand and heading to leading universities here.

Eighty-five percent gained entry to their first-choice university and 12% of this graduating class went on to attend top 10 globally ranked universities.

Within Lower School, staff members worked tirelessly to embed High Performance Learning into all aspects of what we do and, because of their efforts, students were empowered to consider at a greater depth How We Think and How We Behave – the two elements that underpin everything we do as a school. Our two new i-Rules (Practise and Wonder) took shape and, because of these, rich conversations about how we view our world, how we approach our learning and what it takes to be world class were at the forefront of every mind. Teachers engaged in study groups and enriched their own development for the benefit of all learners.

Students, as always, were at the forefront of development throughout the year. They were central to the obtaining of the Green Eco Flag, they participated in more leadership opportunities than ever before, raised more money for year-group charities than ever before, and showed their true pride in being a Harrovian. The year was punctuated by expeditions,

learning and achievement, and will forever be remembered for the resilience of each person who participated as well as the partnerships (students, parents, teachers) that ensured, even in times of challenge, success was to be had.

In the Upper School, High Performance Learning took hold, with our students being challenged to develop their thinking and performing skills, and an ‘I can do’ attitude. Supported by the bespoke, newly developed GRIT programme and a range of leadership groups, such as the new Sixth Form Mental Health Wellbeing group, students were challenged in Growth, Relationships, Identity and Tenacity sessions throughout the year.

We were able to slot in a range of House events such as a Dragon boating tournament, Sports Day and the online House Shout, as well as a range of exciting Challenge Days, including the Year 8 cycling day and Year 7 Roman Army day.

Our Junior Achievement students reached third place in the Thailand competition for designing, printing and selling a story book with an eco-message, while other leaders contributed to our eco initiatives, resulting in the Green Flag Award. We hosted Q & A sessions online with a range of global universities and with several professional football players; we held an international football competition for over 1,000 students and hosted softball and badminton SEASAC events. We saw a Year 9 student qualify for the Under-16 Thai national tennis team and our gymnasts win first place at the FOBISIA championships.

Along with the fabulous Mamma Mia! production and the Christmas Show, there was a series of outstanding Year 11 devised drama performances focusing on gender and sexuality, masculinity, war and human trafficking.

– John Standen, Head Master

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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL BEIJING At the end of every school year, it is common to highlight to students and staff the challenges they have faced and how they have surmounted those challenges, and that they should thus look forward with confidence to the future.

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f course, every year in a school’s life, be it 450 years old or ten years old, presents its unique difficulties. Looking back on the academic year of 2020/21 we might be excused for thinking that past exhortations to students and staff were less firmly anchored in contemporary events than those of this year.

Like Harrow Beijing itself, those challenges have been diverse in their nature. We are an all-through school and have the pleasure of seeing three-, fourand five-year-old children here. This year we experienced the joy of seeing them return to school after intermittent and sometimes extended lockdowns. To see the children run up to their friends and shout with joy, “I remember you”, was both touching and a little saddening.

For the older students, the uncertainty was perhaps the most difficult aspect to deal with. Would we be able to play sporting events in teams this week? Would there or would there not be live lessons next week? And, of course, would there be exams this year? In the end, all these things happened to a greater or lesser degree, but some of the structure and certainty that we wanted to provide to students around these events was more difficult to establish.

Our staff were not exempt from these travails. While we have been very fortunate

in Beijing not to endure protracted lockdowns, the quarantine process upon return to China means that, for many of us, returning home has not been possible or has been very difficult. At the beginning of 2020, we opened the school with around 90 teachers still trapped overseas. Those teachers going through the gruelling process required to return to China were supported by local and expat staff volunteers. Everybody still in Beijing stepped in to cover lessons and made sure that our students received a varied and stimulating education.

At the end of the day, though, a school remains a place for students and all that we do must be judged on the calibre of the young people we turn out. Our Head Girl Karina Ng has left us to study medicine in Hong Kong. She recently told a local magazine that her initial desire to study medicine began when she was six, when her grandfather died of prostate cancer.

Her holistic approach to medicine, though, was borne of a Harrow education. Karina

said that her extracurricular activities shaped her vision of working as a doctor, that playing in a musical ensemble had taught her to work in teams, and that volunteering at a local orphanage for children with disabilities had taught her that medical care should not be administered without regard to the circumstances of the individual.

Perhaps when considering recent issues, we should be aware that many of us have been very fortunate to grow up in an era of relative peace and prosperity. In the past, many children and young people must have feared receiving the news that their parents would not return from war or would be unrecognisable when they did. We should count ourselves fortunate to share with those past generations the values that have carried us through this episode and will continue to lead us forward. They are the Harrow values of Courage, Honour, Humility and Fellowship.

– John Hopkins, Assistant Head, External Relations

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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL HONG KONG As we marked over 18 months since COVID-19 began its grip on our lives, we acknowledged how much it demanded of us. Yet, what struck me most was the response of our pupils and staff to managing changes to school procedures; how they coped with technological challenges and how they adapted to different ways of teaching and learning in different locations with different equipment, and even occasionally in different time zones.

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hat was apparent was that our default setting was to be flexible and not to compromise on our strategy of pursuing excellence, even when this meant tweaking, polishing, expanding, creating or revolutionising our curricular, co-curricular and pastoral provision as well as the general operations of the school. It involved a great deal of hard work, but our pupils and staff rose to the challenge and took advantage of all that is on offer at Harrow Hong Kong.

This hard work led to some outstanding results with 61% of all grades at A level in 2021 awarded an A*, 84% A*–A and 94% A*–B. At GCSE, 54% of grades were a 9, with 78% 9/8 (A*–A) and 93% 9/8/7 (A*–A). Former pupils secured places at top universities across the world, including Oxbridge colleges, Ivy League, G5 and Russell Group universities, as well as universities in Australia, Canada and Holland, with others studying medicine and law at the University of Hong Kong.

While at times we were further apart than ever before, we were ‘Stronger Together’: the words blazoned over our 2021 Long Ducker T-shirt, and which were reflected in our 2021 Harrow Song Together in Harmony.

Our school not only delivers outstanding academic results, but we develop character to ensure that pupils learn how to be creative, strategic, collaborative, solutionfocused and leaders. They exhibited these qualities in many and various ways over the course of the year: in music, drama, sport, art, and a wide range of competitions and charitable endeavours.

A team of pupils from Years 9–13 wrote and performed talks at the inaugural TEDx

Youth event earlier in the year. They spoke with ease and passion and were a source of knowledge and inspiration for their audience. It was a year when we pushed the environmental and sustainability agenda and once again celebrated Science Week, Philosophy Day, World Book Day, Gratitude Day and World Mental Health Month. Our Enterprise and Leadership programme also flourished.

Nothing demonstrated our interconnectedness more than the Harrow Canon, based on the work of Thomas Tallis, which involved staff and pupils from Year 1 to Year 13 singing the words written by our first ever Poet Laureate, Stephanie Webb:

‘We are together one and all, On Harrow’s Hill stand proud and tall, The unity we have is clear: We ought to hold our friendship dear.’

– Ann Haydon, Head

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HARROW INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL SHANGHAI Returning from the isolation and apartness that came with the virtual education world, the academic year of 2020/21 was blessed with completely uninterrupted in-person schooling. This allowed Harrow Shanghai to recognise its regathered community with fresh appreciation – pupils, staff and parents all together once again. The joys of social company, active fellowship and real-time human interaction could be enjoyed once more.

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he highlights of the year centred on successes brought about despite adversity and challenge – whether it was in public examinations, university places gained or enjoying the beauty of creative and performing arts, in addition to active collaboration in celebrating our commonality during events such as International Day, the Chinese New Year celebrations and the inaugural Harrow Ball.

During the public examinations of summer 2021, the academic determination of our Fifth Form and Upper Sixth students paid rich dividends. New A level records were set with 90% of all outcomes graded A* or A, with 57% at A*. We were also delighted that the School’s record of securing places for all leavers at their first-choice university remained intact. The IGCSE results of the Fifth Form students were no less remarkable.

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Academic enrichment was taken to new heights with wide-ranging and colourful Book and Science Weeks, where learning was brought actively to life in full technicolor and made starkly relevant to our leaders of the future. The Supercurriculum programme inspires our children to explore knowledge and understanding, and to develop a love of learning, not just simply to excel in the domain of tests and examinations. For example, the topics explored in the Extended Project Qualification, the Crest Awards, Business Enterprise and weekly podcasting provided cerebral stimulation way beyond formal curriculum matter.

The Music Department flourished with a significant growth in its performance programme, both internally and publicly, which included more ensembles and choirs.

There was a record number of pupils learning an instrument and everyone enjoyed and appreciated the more regular inclusion of musical performances from talented pupils during weekly assemblies.

An eclectic range of drama performances over the year from Cinderella to Shakespeare enabled those with thespian ambitions and interests to hone their acting skills, and the Harrow Theatre Academy with its weekly workshops and skills development enabled pupils of different

ages to work collaboratively together to produce their performances.

Our expanded extra-curricular programme included well over 100 different opportunities and activities throughout the year and provided a forum where staff and students could build relationships on a whole new level, and pupils could discover talents and passions to support their self-esteem. New activities such as gymnastics, cooking and Eco Club proved our commitment to diversity and variety in choice.

As a community founded upon the development of leaders, our Leadership and Service programme evolved in exciting ways. Despite the restrictions due to the ongoing pandemic, our students and staff remained widely involved in service projects outside the campus, in The Duke of Edinburgh’s Award Scheme and Junior Award Scheme for Schools programme, in camps and residential trips, and in councils and pupil-voice groups that directly influence decisions on how our community should develop and improve.

The House system flourished thanks to an increased programme of activities to involve all, and a healthy injection of competitive rivalry. New events such as the Inter-house Big Draw Art Competition, the Creative Writing Challenge and an expanded whole-School House Music event all proved infectiously popular.

– Charles Ellison, Head Master

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JOHN LYON The 2021 School year saw a new beginning for John Lyon, with girls joining the School for the first time in its 145-year history, and a new relationship with Quainton Hall School, which has become John Lyon’s prep school.

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hile preparations for these changes were underway, and in the shadow of continuing COVID-19 lockdowns and restrictions, School life continued with much activity both inside and outside the classroom.

Once again, we saw the cancellation of public examinations at A level and GCSE, replaced instead by centre assessed grades.

At A level, the School again recorded a 100% pass rate across all subjects, with 32% of all grades awarded at A* and almost three-quarters (74%) at A*/A. Twenty-eight students achieved straight A*/A grades and five bursary award holders were among the top 25 highest achievers.

Students headed to universities across the UK, notably Oxford, Russell Group institutions and the University of London.

At GCSE, 29% of all results were the highest 9 grades, with more than half (52%) awarded a 9 or 8. Six pupils received straight 9 grades (the equivalent of a high A*). A further eight received no grade lower than an 8, also seen as an A* grade.

Last year’s record number of Sixth Form Scholarship awards was beaten again, with 19 John Lyon GCSE pupils accepting an award to move into the John Lyon Sixth Form, having achieved the benchmark of at least eight 8 grades.

The School’s 145th anniversary was cause for celebration at different points of the year, opening with a day of activities in May

and continuing through Summer Term and into the new Autumn Term. An anniversary logo featuring both John and Joan Lyon was introduced, a new ‘Lyon’ font based on hand-drawn lettering from a century-old School magazine created, and keyrings and pin badges made using an in-house laser cutter on sustainable materials.

John Lyon’s third Talks-on-the-Hill lecture evening was held fully online with an audience of more than 200 and focused on the subject of La Peste. Guest speakers included the Chair of the National Emergency Covid Critical Care Committee, Professor Hugh Montgomery, who looked at the biology and sociology of Covid; expert in the history of plagues Dr Lori Jones, who spoke from her university in Canada; and Chaplain of St John’s College, Cambridge, Reverend Andrew Hammond, who discussed the significance of plague in the Bible.

Events throughout the School year attracted a number of high-profile and interesting guests, including musician Jess Gillam, parliamentarian and journalist Lord Finkelstein, teacher and author Jane Hawking, historian Professor Kate Williams, Olympic champion hockey player Maddie Hinch,

former Test batsman Rob Key, mathematician Dr Nira Chamberlain and parliamentarian and businessman Lord Gadhia.

In sport, the School was honoured to be named, for the first time, as one of The Cricketer’s Top 100 Schools, in recognition of our commitment to cricket in the curriculum, facilities, fixture programmes and coaching. It was therefore especially pleasing when our 1st XI retained the Middlesex Schools Cup with dominant displays in the competition’s latter stages including a nine-wicket win in the quarterfinal, a semi-final victory over St Benedict’s Ealing, and a huge 87-run victory over Merchant Taylors’, restricting the opposition to 41 all out.

Golf proved the breakout sport of the past year, with the School’s first-ever competitive matches seeing wins over Merchant Taylors’ and Mill Hill, as well as a very narrow defeat to Harrow.

Drama and music programmes were somewhat curtailed by Covid restrictions, with concerts and performances taking place largely online. Only the Summer Term saw a return to the live stage, although audiences were only able to watch from home.

– Katherine Haynes, Head

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JOHN LYON’S CHARITY

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ith the outbreak of COVID-19 in the UK and the subsequent national lockdown, the funding community responded quickly and collectively. London Funders (the membership network for funders and investors in London’s civil society) released a funder statement: ’We Stand with the Sector’, which made clear that the funding community would be as flexible and understanding as possible, working with grantees to ensure they felt supported to be able to respond to their local communities. John Lyon’s Charity was one of the initial five funders that signed up to the London Funders Pledge and all eight Young People’s Foundations (including Harrow) signed up within the first two days.

We responded to the crisis nimbly in a number of ways: 1. We kept our Main Grants open to applications to maintain ‘business as usual’. We felt the last thing the sector needed was a shutdown of core funding.

2. We showed adaptability to our existing grantees to help them deliver differently; whether that was diverting a current

grant to online delivery or flexibility to defer or extend a grant.

3. We granted over £900,000 in emergency funding to the London Community Response Fund.

4. We provided Covid School Holiday Activity Funds (£329,000) that followed Government guidelines to allow much needed socialising through fun play during the summer of 2020.

Charities of all sizes faced unprecedented challenges; operations were forced to move online, some found themselves offering subsistence services to support their

beneficiaries, and the future of the non-profit sector hung in the balance. The need for funding was never greater. The boroughs in our Beneficial Area were some of the hardest hit in the country and have been particularly vulnerable to the economic impact of COVID-19.

The experience John Lyon’s Charity gained because of the Grenfell Tower tragedy led to the resurrection of the collaboration we had built at that time.

Central to that collaboration was the establishment of a Funder Portal and a single application form, making it much simpler for applicant organisations to access the funding rapidly. With the introduction of the COVID-19 lockdown and the growing crisis, the portal enabled the London Community Response Fund (LCR) collaboration to respond swiftly and efficiently.

In the financial year ending 31 March 2021, we awarded £12.22 million to 114 organisations: a 13.5% increase on the previous year, reflecting our realisation that we needed to step up and offer the sector more. We also created a Home-School Community strategy, which was launched on 1 April 2021 and is due to run for the next six years.

Our pledge is to help every organisation that is worth saving to survive and thrive for the next 5–10 years – to safeguard the best of what we have in the Beneficial Area. Those that are worth saving are recognised already as being vital to the health and diversity of the voluntary sector in the JLC Beneficial Area. We also want to ensure organisations remain open to innovation and have the capacity in which to innovate. We have dug deep into our endowment and, over the next six years, will grant an additional £22 million on top of our regular grant giving.

– Lynne Guyton, CEO, John Lyon’s Charity

Last Word Among the donations to the Archive in 2021 was a painting of Elmfield that had been presented to a Miss C E Haynes, who was Matron of Elmfield from 1933 to 1949. The painting, whose artist is unknown, was commissioned and presented by grateful Old Elmfieldians to Miss Haynes on her retirement.

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eemingly the only record of Miss Haynes is found in The Harrovian.

The information is very sparse – just a note of her retirement. There is no mention of her full name and no photograph of her has been identified among the School’s collections; she does not even appear in the House photographs of the time.

Miss Haynes must have had a kindly influence on hundreds of boys over her 16 years in Elmfield, which includes the period of World War II, yet her name is unknown, and her only memorial is a painting. It would be nice to know more about her.

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