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ISSUE 58 OCTOBER 2020

Editor’s Note

This has been another busy year in the life of a King’s College Junior School boy as, no doubt, you will also conclude in reading the pages that follow. From the opening of the fantastic new sports facilities to the multitude of activities, trips, concerts and events that make up the rich extra-curricular opportunities here: ‘Our great school has it all’. Of course, no editor’s note would be complete without making mention of the unique circumstances that unfolded in the latter part of the year. As we adjusted to the prospect of ‘virtual’ learning and staying at home, our school community faced many challenges. It is a source of enormous pride to have witnessed the myriad ways in which boys, staff and parents alike responded to the so-called ‘new normal’; not only in sustaining the boys’ academic development, but also in helping each boy to explore his interests across the non-academic spectrum. On one of the handful of occasions that I made the trip to King’s during lockdown – playing my part in what the dozen or so boys who attended called ‘Key Worker School’ – I found myself reflecting upon other periods in the school’s long history when the community bonded together in the face of adversity and change. I shall hold back from drawing direct comparisons with the events of the past, but in the absence of what would ordinarily have been a fuller anthology of photography from the summer term, I have chosen to include some pictures from the archive. I hope you will agree that they serve an important purpose here: to illustrate the continuous role the school has played in keeping its boys busy. Nick Jay

CONTENTS

PRIZEâ€“GIVING 5 VA L E T E 14 T R I P S 17 ACTIVITIES & E VENTS

HOUSES 53 C R E AT I V E W R I T I N G

DRAMA 89 ART & DE S IG N TEC H N OLOGY

M U S I C 11 5 S P O RT 131

1899 Outside the Great Hall

1913 Interior of Great Hall

HEADMASTER’S SPEECH

Over the last few days, we have welcomed back to school the vast majority of our boys and it has been wonderful to see them again but this has been the strangest term that any of us have experienced. It seems to have flown past and, although most of the boys and we, the teachers, have hardly set foot in a classroom, a great deal has been achieved. This is, though, a period which has seen many people around the world pass away prematurely as a result of the coronavirus pandemic and I know that some of you have lost family members and friends. One of my close friends died because of the virus and I think we should pause for a few moments to remember all these people.

We have several members of staff who are leaving us at the end of this term and it will be with genuine sadness that we must say ‘Farewell’ to Mrs Howes, Mrs Huckerby, Mr Connolly, Miss Pilling and Mr McAuslan. Mrs Howes has been a wonderful Head of Drama and English teacher here since 2002. Many of you will have been involved with Rushmere or Priory productions which she produced or have taken part in one of her wonderfully creative Form assemblies. She has tremendous energy and creativity, great affection for all of you and an unwavering love of teaching. She will be much missed but we wish her luck in her new post at Claremont Fan Court School. Mrs Huckerby has been with us for eleven years and very nearly all that time has been spent teaching the First Form in Rushmere. As with Mrs Howes, so with Mrs Huckerby; she loves teaching and brings intelligence, warmth and creativity to her classroom. Many boys, including my younger son, have benefited from her care and our loss will be to the advantage of Culford School where she will be this September. Mr Connolly has also taught the First Form, albeit not for quite as many years as Mrs Huckerby. He shares her talents as a teacher and is a fine sportsman, which has enabled him to contribute to the boys’ education on the games field as well as in the classroom. He has been an excellent Head of Windsor House too, and I know he will make a very valuable contribution to the establishment of King’s College School Bangkok, starting this September. 3

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Life must, of course, go on and I am delighted that the overwhelming majority of the boys has had such a good term despite all the challenges. I have seen some really interesting, intelligent and imaginative work, and it is evident that the boys and their teachers have been particularly creative over the last nine weeks. Our sporting and musical activities have been curtailed, of course, but there have still been Sports Days, fixtures against other schools and concerts.

Mr McAuslan will be joining him in King’s Bangkok after four years with us. He has taught mathematics and games, and been a superb Head of Norman House. He is also an excellent sportsman and those of us who saw it will not forget his three consecutive sixes (off Mr Tibble, who is a fine bowler) in the final over to win the most recent KCJS v KCS staff cricket match. I have no doubt that he will be much appreciated in Bangkok and he will also be closer there to his beloved New Zealand. Miss Pilling is similarly from down-under but, in her case, home is Queensland, Australia. Miss Pilling was able to get home before the lock-down tightened its grip on air travel and she has been teaching via Teams from there over the last nine weeks. She is a fine mathematician with a wonderful sense of humour and a strong work ethic. Mr Anderson, our Head of Mathematics, and his colleagues in the department, as well as all the other teachers, will miss her warmth and energy but we all wish her well in her new post in St Margaret’s School. I would also like to record my appreciation of Mrs Lucinda Charlesworth, the Head of the Learning Enrichment Department. Mrs Charlesworth is technically a member of the Senior School Common Room but, throughout her time at King’s, she has worked closely with many of our boys. She is a fine teacher – warm, kind, conscientious and highly intelligent – and we have all benefited from her work and guidance. We wish her well as she moves to Caterham School, which is much nearer to her home. This year we have had impressive support from our graduate assistants, Luke Yates, Sam Griffin and Louis Treneman. Luke and Sam will be staying at King’s but moving across to the senior school in September and Louis is moving on to pastures new. Thank you, Luke, Sam and Louis for all you have done and good luck for next year. We have some boys leaving us, too, and we send our good wishes to Joel Aaron, Oliver Bonding, Rohan Janaki Deepakumar, Joe and Sammy Jayanathan and Arran Sykes. All the boys from the Upper Remove will be moving on, of course – the vast majority to the senior school and they, too, leave with our very best wishes. I would now like to call on our three Head Boys – Ollie Warbey, Max Rivaldi and Harry Rushton – to bring our prize-giving to a conclusion. I do not know if this has happened previously but Mrs Rose told me recently, with justifiable pride, that these three boys were all in her Second Form class. Ollie, Max and Harry, over to you. All that remains is for me to say a special and heartfelt ‘Thank you’ to all the staff – teaching and support – who have proved, once again, what a talented and committed group they are. I wish them, all the boys, you – their parents – and your wider families very best wishes for the summer. GAS

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H E A D B OY S ’ SPEECHES

one of them has helped me through the school and I am ever grateful. KCJS has truly prepared me for the rest of my life and I will never forget what I have learnt here.

Oliver Warbey For me, my King’s experience began even before I went through Clifton gate for the first time. Getting that letter, that letter which I had dreamt about numerous times was where my journey truly began.

Max Rivaldi It is so hard to believe that six years ago I was stepping into this Great Hall in oversized shor ts and an even bigger bright cherry red blazer, but here I stand today on my very last day in Priory wearing a pair of slightly tighter trousers and a well-worn, not quite so cherry red blazer.

I still remember my first day; how nervous I was, how the big unknown of a new school really scared me. However, as soon as I went through Clifton gate on that morning. I remembered that everyone else was in the same situation as me. The prospect of a new school would frighten everyone. This comfor ted me a little. Although my first day had been a bit bewildering, I remember how much I yearned to go back to school the next day. The first few weeks were challenging, but I quickly settled into my new routine and found myself loving every bit of life at King’s. I will never forget my weekly Thunderbird challenges in Transition, which I enjoyed every single time. TDM was the perfect way to star t my journey at King’s, all thanks to Mrs de Montfor t.

My journey at King’s has honestly been fantastic – I have had some amazing oppor tunities and made many great friends. I have learned so much over the past six years and it has not all been academic, but it has all cer tainly been useful! During term time we work hard – French vocabulary, mathematical equations, scientific facts, impor tant dates, Latin verbs and assessments, and much more. We have had great fun in lessons – I cer tainly discovered my love for debating in Mr Watkins’ History lessons and just how bad my jokes were in Mr Jones’ Latin class. I remember the P, N, I, tasks with Mrs de Montfor t – every week trying to come up with something positive, negative and something interesting – it will never leave me! I will remember the sound of Mr Watkins from two classrooms away!

After that first year had flown by, I really felt accustomed to life at King’s. I remember all the heated House competitions, how amazing it felt to win the House cup in my first year. I have been given every oppor tunity I could ever want here in the Junior School. Whether it be in music or spor t, in academics or creatives, I was able to try anything. I remember the nerves on every exam day, how I was comfor ted every time by the amazing teaching staff. I remember the raw pride I felt to be made a prefect, and later to be made Head Boy.

Spor t has played a huge par t of my life here, as has the chamber choir. I have really enjoyed going on the trips, singing in some amazing places, and taking par t in fixtures. I am very pleased to repor t that the U13 Rugby A team did have a win this year!

I have memories now which will stay with me for the rest of my life. King’s allowed me to try anything, and this is why I have so many memories. I have been lucky enough to travel far and wide, from a fantastic beginning at Legoland, to travelling on the trip of a lifetime to South Africa just before lockdown. I am not sure if other schools could offer me the same oppor tunities as I have had here. King’s really is the school for me and I hope to have as great an experience in the Senior School as I have had here.

It has been a tremendous honour to be Head Boy and I am extremely grateful for being given this oppor tunity. I have really enjoyed performing my duties – I was delighted to go back into Rushmere and see all the new boys who are beginning their King’s journey there. If I could give the younger boys one piece of advice it would be this: make the most of everything that is on offer – debate, create, par ticipate and push yourself.

I have learnt many life lessons here at the Junior School, but above all I have learnt never to give up. King’s has taught me that hard work will pay off and I live by this now. I set myself goals and King’s helps me to achieve said goals. I would not be able to be where I am today, delivering this speech, if it were not for all the teachers at this school. Every single

Of course I am really sad that our time in Priory was cut shor t due to COVID-19 but even though we were forced apar t we will be back together soon moving on to new adventures in the Senior School – thankfully not too far away.

I would like to end by saying a very big thank you to all the teachers and staff who have taught me and suppor ted me throughout the Junior School. I would also like to wish all the best to all the teachers and students who will be leaving the school. You have all been amazing and I will never forget my time here!

enormous white pottery frog for being table tennis champion on the Normandy trip in Third Form. My mum was not sorry when I had to give it back, but the honour of having won it was huge and, strangely, I miss it. There were tough times in freezing conditions, against harsh referees and savage opponents on the rugby field. Picking ourselves up after a number of defeats to turn in some great performances – par ticularly in sevens – meant digging deep, week after week. At times like that it is your friends, teammates and pride in the school that keep you going. And at times we needed it.

Harry Rushton The end of the summer term, and the end of the school year always offer an oppor tunity to look back on our achievements, but also to reflect on some of the challenges that might at the time have seemed daunting, but, actually, became learning points – and were all the more satisfying for having been overcome.

I’d often walk past the school on my daily lockdown exercise route, and would walk up Wrights Alley, looking at the games fields and wondering if the ground staff were secretly pleased that their hard work wasn’t being torn up by rugby boots and cricket studs. I doubt they were, but it made me think about how many work so hard to make our lives and the school better all round. At King’s we are for tunate to have so many cheering us on: parents, teachers, friends, and behind the scenes, the cooks and secretaries, and all the other staff.

As a pupil, I would like to mention a few memories from here that I will take with me wherever I go. I star ted at King’s in Second Form. I knew I had arrived somewhere different when I was taken on a history trip to Hastings. It was not enough to read about the Norman Conquest, or watch a film about it on YouTube. No, we went and re-enacted the battle itself, at Hastings, with Mr Morris and Mr Watkins like two chess players, and we the Rooks and Bishops. It was fun, informative, and for me, a great bonding experience. Somehow, this battle summed up for me what it was like being at King’s: inspiring teachers, great ambition, the determination to succeed, and the company of those I know will be lifelong friends.

I would like, then, to conclude by thanking all of them. My years at King’s have been special and memorable, as I know they have been for others. I will look back fondly and gratefully.

And, of course, that was only the star t of many adventures. Among my proudest achievements and cer tainly the ugliest trophy I have won, was the

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Over lockdown, it is those memories that keep you going. School isn’t just about the work – it’s fun, jokes, laughter, camaraderie, the team spirit – winning or losing – the rivalry, competition and all the music, drama, and spor t, that make us more than the sum of our par ts.

I’ll give an example of each from my personal experience, but before I do, I thought I’d mention the strange circumstances in which we find ourselves now, where I’m speaking to you vir tually, and I was appointed Head Boy for the-term-that-never-was. When the email arrived saying that there was no more school, I would be lying if I said I did not celebrate. It is the stuff of any schoolboy’s dreams. But that did not last long for two reasons: first, another email immediately followed introducing ‘vir tual school’, shattering my hopes, but continuing the timetable almost seamlessly. Second, and perhaps after a week or two, it struck me that school – and what we have here at KCJS – is so much more than lessons and homework. If anything, they seem like the least impor tant par t.

H E A D B OY S

Y E A R G RO U P P R I Z E S

Autumn term Oliver Warbey

TB Hudson Blyde Aiden Mawani Tomas O’Leary

Spring term Maximilian Rivaldi Summer term Harry Rushton SCHOOL PREFECTS

TWL Kian Suri Rohan Shan-Muhammad Rehan Basu 1BP Matthew Ingham James Etienne Sunny Wu 1C Oliver Watt Ashvin Waegner Henry Thwaites 1H Gabriel Desaedeleer Archie Whitaker Sebastian Arney 1M Harry O’Hare Theo Knowles Leo Wood Second Form Academic Prizes Oliver Lovett-Turner Kar thik Sooriakumaran Harry Chase Hari Singh Daniel Panna Joshua Taylor-Marsh Winston Qiu Gyaan Johal Second Form Progress Prizes Arran Clay Ayden Amin Edward Wawra George Butterwor th Third Form Academic Prizes Arya Chandrasekharan Ishaan Chinoy Xander Insall Hamish Whelan Adam Fazlanie Tim Hannah Oliver Dunnett Matteo Crisafi

Lower Remove Academic Prizes Saksham Agrawal Nikolas Andrijanovs Arvind Benedict Luca Buanne Alp Ciceksever Antoine Dubreil Alfie Edmondson George Lovett-Turner Tanush Malhotra Rui Nabeshima Edward Pedropillai Lower Remove Progress Prize Luke Belderbos SPECIAL PRIZES Transition Prize for Art Leo Semiletov First & Second Form Prize for Art Sebastian Arney Third Form & Lower Remove Prize for Art Maxim Axentiev Third Form & Lower Remove Prize for Design Engineering Alex Beharry First & Second Form Prize for Information Technology Shahyan Ali Third Form & Lower Remove Prize for Information Technology Alexander Annesanti Transition Prize for Music Alp Kucukyildiz First & Second Form Prize for Music Alfred Soulier Third Form & Lower Remove Prize for Music Nikolas Andrijanovs Priory Instrumental Prize Desmond Zee and Reis Fernandes

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Virgile Alexandre Shahvez Ali Berke Alpsu Daniel Axentiev Will Barney Cassius Collett Freddie Cour tney Noah Ferguson Maxime Fery Adam Fox Emiliano Gallenzi Maximillian Lenkiewicz Joseph McColm Amaan Naseem James Snook Dylan Stacey Jarred Townsend Oliver van den Bosch

TDM Charlie Austin James Koutsovasilis Ishaan Rao

Third Form Progress Prizes Taran Sekhon Arjun Nair Maxim Axentiev Max Malan

Priory Singing Prize Alfie Edmondson Frank Hole Prize for Piano Ethan Yan John Evans String Prize (Rushmere) Natan Sarkar and Leo Ogungbemi John Evans String Prize (Priory) Ryan Green Chess Prize Shahvez Ali Carter Library Prize Xander Insall Vikram Singh English Prize Joshua Caplan Michael Smith Prize for Priory Science Antoine Dubreil Carter Prize for Second Form Mathematics Winston Qiu Pythagoras Prize for Third Form Mathematics Ishaan Chinoy Lower Remove Cayley Maths Award Daniel Pereira Lindon Speaking Cup Yusuf Fazlanie SUBJECT PRIZES IN THE UPPER REMOVE English Niccolo Silvestri Emiliano Gallenzi Daniel Axentiev Vikram Tandon French Niccolo Silvestri Emiliano Gallenzi Oliver Warbey Geography Vikram Tandon Joven Sekhon Niccolo Silvestri Oliver van den Bosch

History Vikram Tandon William James Latin Otis Ikpase Jonah Pask Jack Risley Max Rivaldi Nikhil Santebennur Niccolo Silvestri Oliver Warbey Mathematics Ethan Lim Shahvez Ali Religious Studies Felix Sitter Emiliano Gallenzi Science Desmond Zee Joven Sekhon Vikram Tandon Ankit Mukherjee ADDITIONAL UPPER REMOVE PRIZES Cecil Venner Music William James Art Cassius Collett Greek Vikram Tandon German Cassius Collett Spanish Zach Olivieri-Maalouf Italian Bryan Lai Mandarin Daniel Axentiev Design Engineering Harry Rushton Fulford English Literature Jonah Pask

SPECIAL PRIZES IN THE UPPER REMOVE Progress Freddie Cour tney Reis Fernandes Adam Fox Max Rivaldi Academic Prizes Virgile Alexandre Emiliano Gallenzi Ethan Lim Ankit Mukherjee Jonah Pask Niccolo Silvestri Vikram Tandon Oliver Warbey Art Scholarship Award Jonah Pask Art Exhibition Ethan Ghosh Music Scholarship Award Reis Fernandes Ryan Green William James Desmond Zee Music Exhibition Award Bryan Lai Vikram Tandon Sports Scholarship Award Ethan Bennett Sports Exhibition Award James Snook Oliver Richards School Community Award Will Barney Comitas Award Oliver Warbey Old Kingâ€™s Club Award Noah Por ter I N D I V I D U A L AWA R D S The Hennessey Cup for Best Batsman Adam Fox Best Bowler Ethan Bennett Best All-Round Cricketer Oliver Richards

The Knox-Murray Cup for Best Rugby Player Max Rivaldi The Cresswell-Evans Cup for Most Promising Rugby Player Ben Torrance Best Soccer Player Ethan Bennett Most Promising Soccer Player Max Rawlinson Tennis Cup Oliver Bonding Bolt Cup Alexander Annesanti Swimming Cup Desmond Zee Farahati Cup for Table Tennis Aaryan Parkash-Mair Ortiz Water Polo Cup Ethan Lim

Acting Cup Harry Jones Collyer Hall Prize Noah Ferguson and Harry Rushton Luddington Cup for all-round contribution to Sport in Rushmere Archie Whittaker

Joel Aaron Peter-Gabriel Adjetey James Alden-Patel Virgile Alexandre Shahvez Ali Berke Alpsu Yaroslav Ananyev Daniel Axentiev Will Barney Ethan Bennett Oliver Bonding Ethan Cheah Charles Clinton Cassius Collett Diego Cordova Lopez Freddie Cour tney Bryn Davies Isaac Epstein Yusuf Fazlanie Noah Ferguson Reis Fernandes Maxime Fery Adam Fox Emiliano Gallenzi Ethan Ghosh Ryan Green Alastair Heathcote Harry Hughes Zamir Hussain Kazmi Otis Ikpase William James Rohan Janaki Deepakumar Joseph Jayanathan Bryan Lai Maximilian Lenkiewicz Ethan Lim Benjamin Liu William Lord Max Losson James Macmillan

The Ricky Bartlett Prize for Sport Oscar Cleveland The Samir Sheikh Cup for all round contribution to Sport Ethan Bennett The Nicholas D’Aloisio Montilla Cup for Technical Innovation Oliver van den Bosch HOUSE CUP House Championship Tudor House

Joseph McColm Ryan Modarres Ivo Monaghan Ankit Mukherjee Talhah Naqvi Hari Narendranath Amaan Naseem Zachary Olivieri-Maalouf Lucas Ollerenshaw Aaryan Parkash-Mair Jonah Pask Anton Pearce-Kulyk Eric Plat Noah Por ter Dharam Rai Oliver Richards Jack Risley Maximilian Rivaldi Harry Rushton Aron Saini Nikhil Santebennur Jai Sarkar Joven Sekhon Rowan Sharma Niccolo Silvestri Felix Sitter James Snook Dylan Stacey Nicholas Steinmeyer Vikram Tandon Jarred Townsend Kaan Urganci Ben Van Broekhoven Oliver van den Bosch George Van Spall Santino Vizzini Oliver Warbey Desmond Zee Justin Zhang

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Day Grammar Cup Alexander Annesanti

UPPER REMOVE B OY S

A N N A H U C K E R B Y

S I M O N C O N N O L LY

Anna joined King’s in September 2009 as a Second Form teacher, teaching French and English. She subsequently taught in Transition for two terms before becoming a First Form teacher. Anna is a wonderful teacher who possesses a calm and kind demeanour, and I know that the many boys in both 1H and Rushmere as a whole have been extremely for tunate to have been taught by her. She even made Handwriting Club fun in spite of the Haribo ban!

Simon joined King’s in September 2014 as a young, fresh-faced (and he hasn’t changed much either!) teacher in First Form. He soon became Head of Norman House and is hugely popular with all the boys who have encountered him. He has a great sense of fun, inspiring his pupils to be the best versions of themselves, and always going the extra mile to offer help.

Her sense of humour shines through in her teaching, and I once heard her scolding a boy in her class, saying: ‘How dare you have fun in my class, especially on a Monday morning!’ Anna is such a charming, sociable person and is able to recall everyone’s names and speak to people in several different languages. She is effor tlessly stylish, even when being pushed around in a wheelchair (by Mr Connolly) on a trip to Cannizaro Park with a broken toe! Anna will be fondly remembered for her love of dogs, Guinness and for everything she brought to the Junior Common Room and, in par ticular, Rushmere. She leaves us to go to Culford Prep in Bury St Edmonds, which allows her to live at home with her husband Mark and beloved dog Toby, dispensing with the weekly commute to London. Anna will be greatly missed, and we send her our love and very best wishes in her new job. CSM

He is a bit of an action man with his love of cycling, early spin classes and is always up for a challenge. He even ‘volunteered’ to be a dance coach in one of the Rushmere productions! We will remember him for his stand-up desk, which shor ter members of staff could not see over when they taught in his classroom, his infectious giggle and for all the thrills and spills on his motor bike journeys to school. Simon leaves us to teach at King’s College Bangkok, but we hope that he will return in a year or two to teach at KCJS again. In the meantime, we wish him and his wife Lucy, the very best of luck in their new adventure. Simon will be remembered and missed warm-hear tedly by the staff, parents and pupils alike. CSM

VICKY HOWES In the words of one of her students: ‘Every lesson with Mrs Howes is a rollercoaster ride.’ In September 2002, Vicky Coke burst onto the scene at KCJS in her inimitable dramatic style, and for almost twenty years, she has brought life, love and boundless energy to all that she does for the boys. Initially a Rushmere Form teacher, teaching some English in Priory, Vicky quickly saw an outlet for all her dramatic energies. She went on to play an integral par t in the establishment of the KCJS Drama Depar tment, stepping into the role she was born for : Head of Drama.

the IT system could scarcely cope. So, boys, when you miss her voice, her warmth, her laugh and her stories, as we doubtless all shall, plug yourself back into Teams and relive a bit of the Vicky Howes magic. Reluctantly, we bid her farewell, knowing that she will go on to suppor t, enter tain and enliven the entire Common Room at Claremont Fan Cour t School, just as she has done here. CPM and RR K E L L I P I L L I N G Since star ting at King’s in January 2017, Kelli has brought boundless energy to many aspects of life at school. She has played a fundamental role in the Maths Depar tment, been a much-loved Form teacher and friend to all in the Common Room.

Kelli’s maths lessons have always been engaging and lively, as she encouraged her pupils to not only reach their potential in the subject but also to enjoy integrating what they have learned into their everyday lives. She teaches with passion and goes the extra mile when a helping hand is needed. Kelli’s trademark maths puns and jokes skyrocketed her to almost celebrity status, and no doubt the boys (and staff) will miss peering through her window straining to see what had given her the giggles as she scribed her latest lines of humour on the board.

Her remembrance assemblies have become an annual tradition, and over the years they have developed into productions in their own right. Vicky’s passion has always been evident in the respect shown by the Upper Remove boys on stage, who clearly understood the poignancy of the moment and evidently felt privileged to be par t of this special, emotive occasion. There has rarely been a dry eye in the house.

After spending a long time away from home, Kelli has decided to return to Australia where she will be teaching in a fantastic school in Brisbane. We will miss you, Kelli – from the boys, parents and staff, a very big thank you and all the very best! RDA

Her colleagues will miss her bubbly personality, cheery presence and kind hear t. Whenever you bumped into Kelli in the corridor she would always brighten up your day with her quick wit and infectious smile.

Recently, Vicky has taken to remote teaching with customary enthusiasm, adding such long and detailed audio accompaniments to her PowerPoints that

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Vicky produced show after show, almost each and every year of her tenure, and with each production she nur tured the talents of as many boys as she could cram onto the stage of the Collyer Hall. One by one, Bugsy, Oliver, Dorothy, Peter, Joseph and countless other characters came to life under her direction. Vicky always insisted on giving every boy the chance to perform, and understanding that not everyone wants an audience, she introduced LAMDA to the school, allowing each student the oppor tunity to work on performance and public speaking. Another annual event organised by Vicky has been the Lower and Upper Remove Lindon Speaking Cup, and her warmth and encouragement ensured that a place in the final round was hotly contested. By her own admission, it was a good thing she never had to judge this competition, for how could she ever choose?

JAMES MCAUSLAN I’m McCluskey, and this is about McAuslan… There is no doubt that as a Head of Spor t, your ears prick up when you hear of a Kiwi joining the ranks of the Common Room, par ticularly at the same time as yourself. You, of course, put aside your preconceptions of their style of rugby, dress code, and arrogance around World Cups, and hope for a man who can drive KCJS rugby fur ther forward, whilst offering him a social football team in the spring, and perhaps some enthusiastic cricketers in the summer. What arrived on the hallowed turf of King’s was this bundle of enthusiasm, with a handshake that would make eating your lunch slightly more difficult than it should! Any team, any spor t, any day, any hour, James would be ready to give the boys of the Junior School their best session of the week.

yellow army, and knowing that he was at the helm always filled me with confidence that we would approach each House event with a desire to do our very best. Toto’s ‘Africa’ will perhaps be our finest hour, and whenever I hear it played, I always record it to send to James with a smile on my face remembering what was a famous victory for the men and women in yellow. James also became a ‘goto’ for multiple school trips, which saw him travel the globe (I’m not jealous at all… !) and come back with stories aplenty of narrow defeats on the cricket field; wipe-outs on a ski run; and trying to negotiate the language barrier in Japan. I’m finding it a little difficult to imagine the school without James, and I know that the boys and parents alike will miss him dearly. His professionalism, humility, and relentless positivity are all that you look for in a colleague, and I only wish I’d have been taught by him myself. King’s Bangkok is incredibly lucky, and here are my final words… James, you have left a mark on all of us and one day I shall listen to a podcast or two with a grin on my face. RPM

‘Mate, do you mind if you cover the U10Cs on Saturday morning?’ ‘Yeah mate, fizzing for it!’ ‘Jimmy, do you fancy that 7s tournament on Sunday? I need an extra member of staff.’ ‘All over it!’ If you were ever looking for a definition of a school man, you would need look no fur ther than JKM. To say that he plugged gaps for us as a spor ts depar tment would be to do James a huge disservice. It was quite clear from the star t of his time at King’s that he was more than able to take a high level rugby and cricket team, and when it came to the round ball, his energy for wanting the boys to succeed produced not only great practices but, often, fantastic results in fixtures. James contributed not only to the Maths and Games Depar tments, but also as Head of Windsor. I was for tunate enough to be a member of the

TR I P S

BOOKFEST and interstellar railways. We learned that there really is no limit to imagination and that anything is possible on the page. Finally, Second Form enjoyed the performance given by Greg James and Chris Smith â€“ and, in fact, Mrs Bourne, who was dragged

On Friday 11 October, most of the Junior School had the oppor tunity to go on the most convenient of school trips, as we crossed the road onto the common to attend Wimbledon Bookfest. Over the course of ten days, the Bookfest tents play host to scores of high-profile writers who come to talk about their work and their books, and we were lucky enough to enjoy three such talks. Firstly, on Monday, the Third Form went to listen to Onjali Rauf talk about her novel The Boy at the Back of the Class where they learned about what challenging circumstances refugees have to suffer, and we all admired the generosity and spirit of the young writer who did so much to suppor t their cause.

up on stage to par ticipate in a fun and energetic talk about Kid Normal. All of the talks were excellent, and we consider ourselves extremely lucky to have Bookfest right on our doorstep every year. Thanks to Mrs Beddoe for organising the tickets so that so many boys could enjoy it. CPM

On Thursday, the Lower Remove experienced Philip Reeve and his extraordinary world of traction cities

DRUSILL AS On the four th day of school, all the First Form went on a double decker coach to Drusillas Park. Drusillas Park is a zoo with a difference! It gives you challenges to do such as climbing a pole like a monkey. The first animal we saw was a green iguana, which was resting. We also saw lots of animals including common marmosets, silvery marmosets, brown capuchin monkeys and meerkats. We also saw servals and red-handed tamarins (have they done something naughty?). Next, we had a workshop about a tribe in Kenya called the Maasai tribe.

tame snake. It felt leathery. After the workshop, we walked past rabbits and capybaras, beavers and otters on our way to a playground to have lunch. The playground had a hamster wheel, three climbing frames, swings and a climbing rock for us to play on. The highlights of the trip were seeing a meerkat on its hind legs, the workshop and seeing so many different animals. Finally, the coach took us back to school after an exciting and eventful trip. Jensen Kerr 1BP

Some children have to walk three miles to school. On the way they might see rhinos, giraffes, lions, elephants, vultures, snakes and many more animals! At the end of the workshop we got to hold a very

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HASTINGS When we got to Battle we were split into two groups and went to the battlefield. Then Mr Watkins and Mr Baird gave us a talk on how the Normans attacked and how the Saxons defended. The Normans, even with the cavalry and archers, took about seven hours to break the Saxon shield wall. This was par tly because the Normans had to

charge uphill, which would have been very difficult. The cavalry lured fyrd units out but only managed to destroy most of the shield wall after a long time. The shield wall broke and soon afterwards Harold Godwinson was shot in the eye by a stray arrow. It blinded him and then four Norman knights came up and chopped his legs and arms off. Afterwards we re-enacted the Battle of Hastings. The group that

Mr Watkins had shown around were the Normans. The group that Mr Baird had shown around were the Saxons. Both sides star ted by bashing their shields with their swords or axes. Some couldn’t

bash as they wielded a Dane Axe. The Normans yelled, ‘Dex Aie!’ while the Saxons yelled, ’Ut, Ut!’ Everyone hit each other’s sword and shield. A few people even had impressive wooden axes. We then had the school tradition of charging at the Junior School Assistant (Mr Yates), which was fun. Then we returned wearily but happily back to King’s. Winston Qiu 2J

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the last weekend of November, around twenty boys set off from King’s to Dover. We were catching a ferry to Pas de Calais for our French exchange with Collège Saint Austreber the in Montreuil-surMer. We were excited but a little apprehensive as we were staying separately with the parents of our exchange par tners.

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When we arrived in Montreuil-sur-Mer, we got on a coach to the school where we were going to meet our French par tners. I was going to stay with a girl called Élise.

A notre arrivée à Montreuil-sur-Mer, nous avons pris un car pour l’école où nous avons rencontré nos par tenaires français. Je suis resté avec une fille appelée Élise.

The first night was a little awkward, but it became easier thanks to the welcoming family and very cute dog! The following day, we went to the beach for a walk with their dog. Later on, we played basketball in their garden and watched movies until late at night. The following day, we went to the huge aquarium, Nausicaä, where we saw lots of fish, sharks and manta rays. Then we went to a huge Christmas shop, where we bought presents and cards for our families. Before our journey back to King’s, we went bowling where we saw most of the other exchange

Le premier soir était in peu gênant, mais c’est devenu plus facile grâce à la famille acceuillante et à leur chien très mignon! Le lendemain, nous sommes allés à la plage pour une promenade avec leur chien. Plus tard nous avons joué au basket dans leur jardin et nous avons regardé des films jusqu’ à très tard. Le lendemain, nous sommes allés à l’énorme aquarium

pairs. The weekend passed by very quickly but I think that my French got a lot better. My exchange, Élise, was great fun and it is a shame that she was not able to visit me in London. Nick Steinmeyer URCM

dernier week-end de novembre, une vingtaine de garçons est par tie de King’s pour aller à Douvres. Nous avons pris un ferry pour le Pas-de-Calais pour notre échange français avec le Collège Saint Austreber the de Montreuil-sur-Mer. Nous étions impatients mais un peu inquiets car nous allions rester avec les parents de nos correspondants.

Nausicaä, où nous avons vu beaucoup de poissons, requins et raies manta. Ensuite on est allé dans un immense marché de Noël, où nous avons acheté des cadeaux et des car tes pour nos familles. Avant notre retour à King’s, nous sommes allés au bowling où nous avons vu la plupar t des garçons de KCJS. Le week-end s’est passé très vite mais je pense que mon français s’est beaucoup amélioré. Ma correspondante, Élise, était très amusante et c’est dommage qu’elle n’a pas pu me rendre visite à Londres. Nick Steinmeyer URCM

J A PA N E XC H A N G E On Thursday 17 October we arrived in Japan, where we were warmly greeted by our host families after quite a long flight. Throughout the week we visited many places, discovering many new and amazing things about Japanese culture that had been unknown to us before. The food that was provided for us was delicious. When the time came to go home, our hosts were always there to welcome us

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into their homes after a great day either at school, discovering how school worked in Japan, or out on an excursion finding out about the history and traditions of the fascinating country we were staying in. Finally, at the end of our absolutely fantastic stay, we sadly had to leave while wishing that we could stay for evermore. Virgile Alexandre URHM

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This summer we should have hosted our visitors from Keio Elementary School, Yokohama, Japan. As we couldn’t be with them, a video call was scheduled to touch base and see how we were all getting on in the present situation. Our boys told Mr Christianson and Mr Kurata of Keio what they’d been doing during lockdown, how they were finding remote learning and also shared some insight into which aspects of Japanese life they were most interested in. We were then told about the situation in Japan, which seemed very similar to us here, and they passed on their very best wishes to the King’s community. DAC

MIDL ANDS TOUR : FOOTBALL The Third Form and Lower Remove set off to the Midlands for our weekend of rugby and football respectively in eager anticipation of the packed two days ahead. We left the school at around half past nine on Friday for a three hour or so journey, with a shor t trip to a service station for lunch halfway through. It was a lovely day for the trip, the sun shining, not the norm for this time of year! We had a brief time to allocate rooms, unpack and change into our kit at the hotel in Derby, before heading back to the coach and onto St George’s Park, the training centre of the England team (LR), and Bur ton RFC spor ts ground (3rds). At St George’s Park, we first had a tour of the complex, which included a fullsize futsal arena, a grass pitch identical to the one at

Wembley and a swimming pool with an underwater treadmill! After a training session on an indoor AstroTurf pitch, we bade farewell to our tour guide and coach, grabbed some dinner and played a round of tenpin bowling before returning to the hotel. The next day it was an early star t as the Lowers travelled to Aylestone FC for our first fixture and the Thirds headed to a training session at Leicester Forest RFC. Both our A and B teams

steadily improved as the games went on and we arguably scored the best goal of the game as Jed Bennett lobbed the keeper after getting on the end of Marco’s through ball, but unfor tunately we were defeated in both matches. Afterwards we changed into casual clothes and headed into Leicester’s city centre where we enjoyed a spot of crazy golf before walking to the King Power Stadium for Leicester’s third round FA Cup tie with Wigan. The hosts ran out 2–0 winners but the score line didn’t tell the full story as the first goal was a classy finish from a Wigan defender past his own goalkeeper and the visitors had a goal disallowed in the second half for a narrow offside. The Third Formers, meanwhile, watched Leicester’s rugby team defeat the Bristol Bears 31–18. The next day we had an extra hour of sleep before checking out of the hotel and travelling to face Mansfield Town’s youth academy, dropping the rugby players off at Derby RFC on the way. We knew we needed a better performance than the day before and we had an advantage – Mansfield only had one team, meaning our As and Bs could rotate on and off. Our defensive work ethic repelled their patient passing play for large periods of the game, and although Jed scored with another tidy finish, unlucky ricochets and clever through balls undid us again. Still, we left in high spirits in the knowledge that we had worked our socks off. We headed back to collect the Thirds, and began the journey home, thus concluding what had been a brilliant tour. Joshua Caplan LRB

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MIDL ANDS TOUR : RUGBY We set off on the morning of Friday 3 January, heading Nor th on the U11 rugby tour to Derby. We arrived and checked in at the Jurys Inn early in the afternoon. Afterwards we got back on the coach and headed down to Bur ton RFC for our first match of the tour. At half-time we were 3–0 down and ended the game 5–4 to Bur ton. After a match tea we went to the bowling alley, had a round each in groups and when we had finished, we went back to the Jurys

with the Tigers’ coaches (and got a signed t-shir t at the same time). We had a Q&A with one of the Tigers’ team and later at the match we were given a surprise and got to do the guard of honour on the ground. Leicester Tigers defeated Bristol Bears 31–18. On our final day we depar ted Jurys Inn in the morning for the triangular fixtures with Derby RFC and Ashbourne RFC. We had very convincing wins and did not concede a single try in either match. We arrived back at school on Sunday evening after an exciting weekend away! Harry Taylor 3M

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S E A F O R D B AY On Friday 8 November, the Lower Remove travelled down to the south coast for their annual fieldtrip to Seaford on a glorious day. The boys investigated how and why coastal management is necessary at Seaford Bay; considering the roles that geology, coastal and non-coastal process, and human intervention play in

shaping the coastline. Highlights of the trip included seeing Seaford’s magnificent chalk headland and sea stack, and getting close up to the monster trucks involved in beach reprofiling after a number of early winter storms. EJMB

T R A N S I T I O N S A AT C H I : T U TA N K H A M U N We were lucky to have had a rare trip to the Tutankhamun exhibition at the Saatchi Gallery, in which we saw the treasures of the Boy King that

will soon return to Cairo forever. I really enjoyed this fabulous outing and was struck most by Tutankhamun’s glorious and battered statue standing before me. Our time there passed quickly but I hope I can visit all of Egypt’s wonders one day. Arran Sykes TWL

TAT E B R I TA I N On Friday 14 February, the First Form went to Tate Britain to see ar tist and filmmaker Steve McQueen’s epic por trait of London’s Year 3. The boys viewed the photographs that were taken of them when they were in Transition and took par t in activities related to themes of identity and change. The boys also enjoyed the oppor tunity to see other works in the gallery. AH

WEMBLEY The Third Form visited Wembley Stadium. On this exclusive tour, we visited all the things you could never get to on a normal match day, or even on a regular stadium tour. First, we made our way to the highest seats in the entire building and we all sat down. The steepness of the steps meant that from every single seat you had a full view of the game. Our tour guide, Raj, explained that you could only hold the World Cup trophy if you won it. After that, we sat in the VIP second tier stand seats where all the corporate hospitality is located. They were very comfor table as they had a layer of cushioned

two and we each had a clipboard with a quiz sheet on it. Using the pictures and photographs on the walls to help us, we all excitedly completed it. There was a match being played at that point, in which the teams were made up of either employees from the sponsoring companies or the staff at Wembley.

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padding. He showed us a replica of the World Cup trophy. We all held it, each in our own pose. We all wished it was the real one that we had held. After that we had a lunch break and once we’d eaten, one group went with our other guide, Nick, to see what the other group had seen and vice versa. We saw many pictures and memorabilia on our ‘History of Wembley’ tour. We were in groups of

If I’m honest, even if it was a memorable event for the players, the quality of football was more huff and puff than Premier League and I think our U11A team would have given them a run for their money! After that we headed inside to attend a lecture on the history, construction and development of the surrounding area. After an exciting day, it was time to head back to school. It was a great trip and I would definitely do it again if possible! Aryan Vedhara 3OH

ISSC SKI TRIP The ISSC ski trip took place in Les Deux Alpes, a skiing village in France. The teachers made sure that there was always something exciting to do, whether you were hitting the slopes with your ski group or going bowling in town with your friends. The skiing was great fun and there were plenty of oppor tunities to enjoy the snow. The Junior slalom team won silver, and overall, it was a fantastic experience. Ankit Mukherjee URCM

RAF HENDON For the First Forms, Wednesday 29 January was a very special day as we were going to the RAF Museum, a historic museum based on World War II. To make it more realistic, we dressed up as evacuees and, as we got on the bus, we felt like 1940s schoolboys leaving the city for the safety of the countryside.

whiteboard. The ink was extremely messy! During our maths lesson we even had to take cover under the desks when the air raid siren went off. It made us realise how frightened the children must have

been even when they were doing normal things like going to school. After a long journey, we finally arrived at the museum. Our first surprise was being taught by a very strict 1940s teacher in a 1940s classroom which helped our understanding of what it would have been like to be a schoolboy during the war. It was very different from our school lessons because we had to write using pens and ink wells, and there was a blackboard instead of an electronic

Following a shor t break, we split up into groups and went off to learn about the planes flown by the British during World War II. We saw lots of different types of propeller planes, but the Spitfire looked like it would have been the toughest in battle. This trip was very enjoyable and good for our World War II learning. Sebastian Arney and Hugo Brabazon 1H

SOUTH AFRICA CRICKET TOUR When we arrived at school on Tuesday 11th February, it was great seeing everyone in their tour kit for the first time. After lunch we set off for the airpor t. On the coach we all felt so excited as it was the first time going somewhere so far away with school friends. We were all looking forward to the things we were going to do on the tour, but slightly nervous about playing matches against the South African players and staying with host families so far away from home, as that was a new experience for all of us.

That afternoon we had our first cricket match in the burning South African sunshine, against Eversdal. Like all of the matches, we had two teams playing at once. In the As, Eversdal batted first and from the 25 overs we played, they got 134/2. KCS then proceeded to get 86/10 – not our greatest result. Our excuse was that we still needed to get used to the conditions. The Bs used the same excuse! We then had a fantastic barbecue in the evening with the whole tour group and our hosts. We at least managed to beat them in a few casual games of football and rugby. Next morning, we headed off on our visit to a cheetah outreach. We star ted by watching a shor t film explaining how cheetahs are endangered, and how they try to protect them. We then went on a tour, seeing some of the cheetahs that they were helping. We went into one of the places where there was a sleeping cheetah, in groups, to stroke it. It felt so amazing to be so close to a cheetah and even stroke it – a once-in-a-lifetime oppor tunity. Then we headed off to Grove Primary School in Claremont, to meet our next opposition and hosts. That afternoon, we played our matches against them, and, in the A team, Kings batted first and got 129/9. In the second innings, Grove got 131/4, making it a very close game. Once again, both our teams were outclassed by the South African opposition.

The following morning, we visited Table Mountain, which is a mountain located next to Cape Town. It is 1,086m tall and around 50km long along the top of the mountain. It is named like this as it has a flat top and looks like a table. To reach the top, we took a cable car. As we reached the top, for the

We travelled to Somerset College on Saturday Morning with high spirits. After an agonisingly close defeat in our previous game, we were ready to get our first win on tour. Beautiful sights rolled past us on the coach drive until we reached the luxurious playing fields of Somerset College. The walk to the pitches was agonisingly long with our extremely heavy cricket bags, made even longer by the sight of our teachers driving past us in a golf buggy. Finally, we reached the pitches and were

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Soon after our arrival in Cape Town, we took a coach to the place where we would then take a boat all the way to Robben Island. Most of us knew nothing about Robben Island so we all learned lots from the tour. In the past, Robben Island was used as a prison, especially for political prisoners. The most famous person to be imprisoned on Robben Island was Nelson Mandela. On the island, we were given a tour by an ex-prisoner, who told us about the harsh conditions in the prison. He also showed us Nelson Mandela’s cell. After we left Robben Island and we had taken the boat back to the mainland, we were transferred to Eversdal Primary School, which was located in Durbanville. We were then hosted by the families from the cricket teams for the next two nights. We were all so excited about spending our first night with the South African families. My host family was so welcoming and friendly.

first 10 minutes, we were completely covered in a cloud, which felt like being in heaven. As the cloud cleared away, we begin to get an amazing view of Cape Town. We all took lots of pictures to save the moment. It was so exciting being so high up above the city.

astounded by the beauty of the school’s grounds. The Stellenbosch Mountains surrounded us on all sides, and lush, green grass was everywhere. This had to be one of the most beautiful places to play cricket. After a good warm up, we went out to field, everyone donning sunglasses and hats to help block out the sun. Almost instantly, it was easy to

play under the lights, with a pink ball. We fielded first again, eager to replicate our performance in our previous match. However, we were slightly more relaxed in the field, giving away easy runs. This, along with a combination of great batting and slightly below par bowling, allowed Clifton to reach a total of 246/5 in their 30 overs. One of their batsmen even reached a century. It would be fair to say that we weren’t in the highest of spirits after the first innings, but this was quickly fixed by burgers and donuts. We went out to bat, knowing full well the task that faced us. A target of 247 was daunting enough, without having to bat under the floodlights. Sadly, we lost a lot of wickets early on and collapsed to 75 all out in just over 18 overs. Although we were beaten, we went back to our hosts’ houses having enjoyed the game, as playing under floodlights is a once-in-a-lifetime experience.

The next day, we transferred to Cape Town International Airpor t, preparing to travel to Durban to commence the second phase of our tour. After stocking up on food and drink for the flight, we depar ted at midday. Touching down at 2 o’clock, we transferred to Clifton Prep where we enjoyed games of water polo and football against our hosts. We later went home with our gracious hosts. I was lucky enough to enjoy a swimming pool and a golf course thanks to my host. We awoke on the Monday morning, eager to explore Kingsmead stadium and the Shark Tank rugby stadium. Kingsmead really lived up to its reputation, and after enjoying a very detailed tour, we were lucky enough to be allowed out into the middle. This was an experience we would never forget. After a shor ter look around the Shark Tank, we enjoyed a quick trip to a bowling alley and later ate a great pre-match meal of pizza. We couldn’t wait for our match that day, it was our chance to

On the Tuesday morning, there was a sense of anticipation in the air, as we knew how impor tant our final match would be. Winning today would allow us to say we won two out of five games on tour, a much better record than one out of five. We arrived at Thomas More and decided to bat first. Ollie and Adam opened the batting and set the tone for the rest of the innings. Their opening par tnership easily surpassed 50, then 60 and so on, until Ollie was caught out for 26. Adam batted for almost two hours, looking sure to reach his century, until he was caught on the boundary for 96 runs. His look of disappointment was visible to everyone around the ground; all of us wanted to see him get a century. Although he didn’t reach 100, Adam left the field to a standing ovation. We ended up with 178 runs in our 30 overs, Adam hitting over half of them. We went out to bowl, knowing it could be the last time we play in South Africa in our lives. We all turned up for this game, every single one of us creating atmosphere and encouraging our teammates. We took lots of catches, yet could have taken even more. It seemed comfor table all throughout the game, yet our winning margin was not as large as we could have hoped. We could easily have ended the game earlier.

After winning our final game of the tour, we boarded our coach once again and headed to Phezulu reptile park and cultural village. The inhabitants of the cultural village astounded us with their dances and rituals, before we went over to one of my personal highlights of the tour, the reptile park. Holding a

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tell the atmosphere in the field had changed from our previous matches. There was a buzz in the air, with wickets tumbling every few overs. Somerset College were all out for 93 in 22.5 overs. It was cer tainly a great performance from us in the field, but we needed to back it up with the bat. Dylan and Nick opened, yet were both sent back to the changing room early on. Bennett came in at number three but was also bowled out quite quickly. It had been a very shaky star t with the bat, being three wickets down, having only scored 19 runs. However, Adam and Ollie came to the crease next and began to build a strong par tnership, refuelling our hope to win our first game on tour. They went on to reach a 50 par tnership in almost the same number of balls and guided us to what ended up being a comfor table win. After that, we travelled to the V&A Waterfront to see some great sights at the Two Oceans Aquarium. We were all very tired after our first win in the searing South African heat, so happily collapsed in our rooms at the Protea Hotel Breakwater Lodge.

about the tour. This was done in teams of four and the winning team got to use Mr O’Sullivan’s

On February 19th, we left our host’s houses and went to Ushaka Marine World Water Park. We arrived at the Water Park at around 10:00, and after a shor t briefing, were given the option to roam around and do as we pleased. Luckily, it was very empty, which meant there were hardly any queues. After we rode all the rides, we drove to a nearby restaurant and ate lunch, most of us having pizzas or burgers. As soon as we filled our stomachs, we embarked on the journey to Hilltop Camp in Hluhluwe Game Reserve. After a long drive, we arrived at the gate of the reserve. With everyone getting off their various devices and enter tainment, we excitedly looked out of the windows of our coach to see our first animal, which turned out to be a wildebeest, soon followed by a giraffe. As we got to the Hilltop Camp, we disembarked the coach in the pouring rain and quickly made our way to the main restaurant where the teachers gave us an explanation of the following two days’ schedule. That day, we arrived at our respective dorms, unpacked our clothes and had a few hours of free time where we either went to other dorms or rested our eyes. We then went to dinner where there was a buffet, and then back to our dorms for a good night’s sleep. We had to wake up very early in the morning of the 20th due to an early morning and afternoon game drive. We split up into a few groups, each taking different routes. We saw many animals, with the most notable being lions, giraffes, rhinos and monkeys. After we had our lunch, we took a quiz

Nintendo Switch for the day, as well as some chocolate. We then went for our second game drive, followed by dinner and then our final night’s sleep in South Africa. After we said goodbye to the wonderful staff at the Camp, we left for for a cruise on the river at St Lucia. We saw many hippos and got frighteningly close to them! After we finished the cruise, we had lunch and then visited a local market where we all bought souvenirs to take home. During the tour we had a system called the ‘fine system’ which was a vote at the end of each day. All the mistakes/stupid things done by the boys were entered into the vote, including things like losing an item at a hotel. On the drive to King Shaka International Airpor t, Mr McAuslan told us the punishment for a fine – sing a song of your choice, solo, in front of the entire tour par ty and the coach driver. We then stopped at a few petrol stations before arriving at the airpor t for the long plane journey to London. We arrived back in London on Saturday 22 February. Thank you to all the staff who accompanied us on the trip and a big thanks to our parents who suppor ted us with all the fundraising before the tour. Dylan Stacey URHM, Oliver Warbey URB and Kaan Urganci URB

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snake is not something I thought I would ever do, however it is only one of the things I got to do at the reptile park. We saw all sor ts of different crocodiles and snakes, each one seemingly more majestic than the last. After a great day, we relaxed in the hospitality of our gracious hosts, dreaming of the awaiting safari.

G L O B E T H E AT R E : MACB E TH On Tuesday 3 and Thursday 5 March, all of Third Form went back in time to the Globe Theatre, to experience witchcraft and regicide in Shakespeare’s Scottish play. Despite some modern-day roadworks, we arrived just in time to settle ourselves onto the wooden benches, huddle up under our blankets and see the witches make their rather gory entrance at the beginning. The boys studied the play in English lessons, so the plot was familiar, but this modern take on Shakespeare’s classic tragedy had King Duncan seemingly more concerned with his golf handicap than his country! Macbeth and his wife were suitably evil though and they threw a great end of war par ty, complete with bucket-loads of confetti. There were some grisly deaths and we all loved the sword-fighting but, in fact, the play was surprisingly funny in places and gave us a new ‘knock-knock’ joke: Knock-knock. Who’s there? Toby. Toby who? Toby or not to be, that is the question! CPM

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MOCK ELECTION Mr Watkins presided with great élan, as always, over a lively and very enter taining mock election. The candidates spoke with commendable eloquence and the floor contributions pulled no punches! There was overwhelming suppor t for the Liberal Democrats at KCJS but sadly, from Jo Swinson’s perspective, this was not matched in the country at large. OMH

E U R O P E A N D AY O F L ANGUAGES On Thursday 19 September, the Junior School celebrated European Day of Languages. Most of the boys came to school in fancy dress specific to a foreign country. The day began with a fantastic assembly in which endangered languages were discussed and where a few students from Upper Remove enter tained us by speaking in their native language. Felix spoke in German, Emiliano spoke in

favourite foreign word. It was lots of fun. For the Priory boys, market stalls were set up outside the dinning hall where students could sample and enjoy delicacies from different European countries and a few raffles and tombolas offered the students the chance to win some interesting prizes. Outside the Great Hall, a Spanish band played music, much to everyone’s delight. One of the highlights of the day was that the school served a Spanish-style paella for lunch, and it cer tainly was a treat! To conclude, a big thank you to Ms Montgomery-Massingberd for organising an educational and enjoyable day for us all! Will Barney URHM

Italian, Eric spoke in Por tuguese, Max spoke in Polish, Maxime spoke in French and Diego spoke in Spanish. There was also a fun quiz at the end of the assembly that was enjoyed by all. The boys also enjoyed the Password Challenge: they had to find different teachers and speak to them in a European language to find out their European Day of Languages

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STEVE COLE On Wednesday 25 September, Steve Cole came in to talk about his books. He talked especially about the Astrosaurs series and explained that the books were about dinosaurs going into space. He also discussed about how he became an author. He was extremely funny and enter taining when he sang his song about aliens and also how he was attacked by a satsuma! We went to meet him and then got our books signed by him. It was great to meet such an amusing author. Zaal Owen 1H

C A RO L I N E L AW R E N C E Over the course of a week in October, our Writer in Residence, Caroline Lawrence, came in to work with boys on their creative writing. After an assembly in which she spoke to all the boys about her books, and the structure of a classic story, she star ted work with double classes, collaboratively planning a story with the class in a highly democratic way. ‘Hands up’ voting chose the characters’ names, the setting, the problem, and, at the end of the story, the fate of the protagonist. Caroline demonstrated how to use her book, How to Write a Great Stor y, to give the boys some really useful little tricks for making their own stories exciting to read. It was a great week, and Caroline was a game par ticipant in every aspect of school life, meeting and inspiring boys from Rushmere to Priory with her energy and sense of humour. CPM

T H E C AVA N TAY L O R S O C I E T Y The Cavan Taylor Society is the cultural society for the boys in the Upper and Lower Remove. This year we were treated to three excellent presentations. The first was from Richard Searle, who is the lead automotive designer at Seymourpowell. Richard’s most recent project has been designing the interior of Richard Branson’s next Virgin Challenger. His principal love, however, is motor cars and he gave us a fascinating insight into the vehicles of the future which will be driverless and might even provide oppor tunities for people to sleep while they move overnight from one destination to another! Our second speaker was Angus Dodd, one of our parents who, until very recently, was the Chief Executive of Quintain, the company which is responsible for the development of the area around Wembley Stadium. This project is one of the largest of its kind in Europe and Angus’s talk captured the boys’ attention as they had all quite recently visited Wembley.

The Cavan Taylor year was concluded with a talk from another one of our parents, Barnaby Collins, who has boys in both the senior and junior schools. He is a founding director of DP, one of the top three town planning companies in London. He gave an excellent presentation to the boys who fired question after question at him for the best par t of thir ty minutes once he had completed the formal element of his talk. They were especially interested in the Tulip, which was the subject of a public inquiry this summer. Each of these three talks was interesting in its own right but together they touched on key environmental issues, especially for those of us living in urban areas, and also provided the boys with insights into some of the careers available to them as they move from university to the world of work. GAS

One of the great sadnesses of the lockdown was that the debating society was not able to meet on Fridays, and the House Debating competition – our key event of the year – had to be cancelled. The quality of the debating this year was outstanding, as revealed in the highly successful mock election, which was held at the end of the Christmas term – brilliantly organised by Isaac and Niccolo. I can honestly say there was not a weak link amongst all the main speakers – they shocked and thrilled me with their fluency, their confidence and their apparent lack of prejudice. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. The real debating takes place in the less than salubrious atmosphere in P8 every Friday – and golly have the boys set high standards this year. There are very few topics the boys are not allowed to debate and the boys are very careful not to abuse this privilege. Beyond the inevitable Trump, Johnson, Brexit triangle we have often ventured into far more esoteric areas. We are keen not just for boys to hear the sound of their own voices, but also to learn how to be better orators, and Mrs H and I are always delighted in the positive way the boys accept criticism. The committee is chosen from boys in the Upper Removes and what good role models they have been this year, all with their own engaging styles – the inimitable Reis, the pugilistic Otis, the thoughtful Ryan, the original Max and our two outstanding Clerks – Will and Joven. It is also sad to say goodbye to those great verbal warriors – Ethan, Ankit and Daniel. The admin side of things has been effor tlessly tamed by Isaac, ably assisted by the ineffable Emiliano. What is also exciting is the talent beginning to emerge – obviously Josh is making a

great name for himself, as are Daniel and Ben – but even in the Second Forms, Alex and Edward are establishing quite a reputation – so the immediate future looks verbally fecund. We were very proud that when a BBC journalist came to visit a Friday afternoon session, he left astounded by both the knowledge and eloquence of our members. I know the boys would like me to thank MVC (Mrs Hamilton) without whom debating would not be half as much fun nor half as wor thwhile. ETW

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FIRST FORM ROMAN WORKSHOP On a cold Thursday morning, First Form were waiting to get our hands stuck into a Roman workshop. The person who conducted the Roman workshop introduced himself to us as Costa by showing us a Costa coffee cup! His friend was Starbucks (another coffee cup) and the last coffee cup was a Café Nero. Nero was the name of the emperor that was currently ruling. We then bowed down to Nero shouting: ‘All hail Nero!’ Costa was sorry that Starbucks couldn’t come along today. To make up for not having Starbucks there, some people dressed up – four as soldiers, three Celts from the 1960s, 70s and 80s, the king and queen of the Iceni tribe, one peaceful druid, the weak and weedy Claudius and three senators with very silly

names. All of them acted in a very funny way! It was a mini comedy about Boudicca and the Romans. All the way along, Costa was saying lines for the actors to repeat. At the end when we had giggling thoughts kept in our heads, we sang a marching song. When we were chanting, Costa was tapping a drum loudly to the beat. It was a very enjoyable workshop. Rish Grover 1M

KIDS’ LIT On Monday 25 November, after five lunchtime practice sessions, two teams of four KCJS pupils represented the school in the Kids’ Lit Quiz which took place in the Great Hall. We were up against 45 other teams from South London schools and we faced ten categories of questions about poetry, nursery rhymes, children’s literature and bookthemed general knowledge. The result of the three-hour competition was that our A team came joint third and had to face an intense, nail-biting tiebreaker – which we unfor tunately lost – while our B team managed to come ninth overall. Although we didn’t win, we still performed very well and everyone had tremendous fun on the afternoon. We’re all extremely grateful to Mrs Beddoe and Ms McGregor who gave up their time to organise the event and were our mentors for the five weeks of practice! Besides, there is always next year! Emiliano Gallenzi URP

M I T Z VA H On the cold morning of Sunday 17 November, seventeen boys and a few willing parents altruistically volunteered to set out on Wimbledon Common for the litter pick. Before we star ted the event, the Common was a sea of litter. This soon changed and this par t of the Common was transformed back to the clean way we love it. The activity was par t of Mitzvah Day, an idea which began in the nor th

London Jewish community but is now a worldwide, multi-faith day of action when people perform acts of kindness, such as helping to improve the environment and the local community. Thank you to Mr McAuslan and Mr James for organising this event. Aaryan Parkash-Mair URP

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RUSHMERE OBER A SCHOOLS’ PROJECT Just before half term, Rushmere held a sponsored spelling and tables event to raise money for our outreach project in Kenya. The Obera Schools’ Project is raising money to build classrooms in rural Kenya based in the area where Mr Baker once taught. This year we raised the magnificent sum of £8,160. With gift aid, this will increase to well over £10,000. This is easily enough money to build and furnish our 15th classroom. Well done the boys of Rushmere! to the Rarage Primary School community. to help them tackle some of the challenges they have from the coronavirus there. This has been immediately put to good use. In Kenya it is compulsory to wear a face mask in public but many people are unable to afford them. We have been able to provide 500 face masks and the community now has 50 hand washing stations with hand sanitizers. With these resources the community can now hold markets regularly again and begin to get the local economy moving. AB Rushmere has a well-established link helping Primary schools in Kenya through our Obera Schools Project. We were able to send an emergency fund of £4,000

C H R I S L LOY D SCIENCE LECTURE The Lower Remove joined boys from the lower school for a fascinating science lecture by author Christopher Lloyd. He took the boys through the history of science using various wonderful props and stories to engage his audience. JEH

PETIT DÉJEUNER On Wednesday 4 March, the French ‘Petit déjeuner’ was great fun. All the Lower Remove French boys prepared either a song or a sketch to perform in front of the parents and this was extremely amusing. A few boys were dressed up as typical French ‘garçons’ and were serving coffee and delicious French pastries such as croissants and pains au chocolat. At the end, all the classes had a sing off with ‘Un kilometre à pied, ça use, ça use…’. This was brilliant, as we were nearly all shouting! Antoine Dubreil LRA

I was thrilled when Bethany from Freshwater Theatre Company came and enter tained us (Second Form), with the famous fairy tales of ‘Boucles d’Or et Les Trois Ours’ (Goldilocks and The Three Bears) and ‘Les Trois Petits Cochons’ (The Three Little Pigs). Everyone had so much fun re-enacting the fairy tales! The workshop was incredibly instructive and fun and all of us had smiles on our faces when we left the building. Everyone was full of excitement in the acting. A big thanks to all the teachers who organised this fantastic and special event. Un grand merci! Giulio Buanne 2B

In February, we had a very amusing and interesting workshop. It was about The Three Musketeers. The lady who came to give the workshop gave out costumes for us to dress up in for some of the characters. She played the main character, D’Ar tagnan, and she was very enthusiastic. At the star t she explained how the musketeers and the Cardinal’s guards always fight when they meet. Then she explained how D’Ar tagnan got some money and a letter from his father as he had wanted to be a musketeer all his life. On his journey to the musketeers, he met someone called I’homme barbu. He threw his glove down for a duel. D’Ar tagnan had never had a duel before. When he lost the duel, he lost his letter and his money, but he couldn’t turn back. When he finally reached the musketeers, he had to duel with each of them. But before he could duel with them the guards appeared, so they fought the guards together and D’Ar tagnan fought so well that he was allowed to be a musketeer. Thank you to the French depar tment for organising this workshop. ‘Tous pour un, un pour tous!’ Orson Billington 3A

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M AT H S C H A L L E N G E On 14 February, Second Form were asked to take par t in a House maths competition, during periods 1 and 2. We were put in our Houses and sor ted into groups of four. The whole year was buzzing with excitement. When we came into the New Hall, there was music, lights and colourful balloons. It made the atmosphere really engaging. In our groups, we had to answer 20 questions in 30 minutes. It was worded maths problem paradise!

There were older students sitting in chairs, waiting for the competition to star t. They were the ones we were supposed to hand our answers to, by running to them and getting them checked. If the answer was correct, they would give us another sheet with the next question on it. If the answer was wrong, you got another try. You could pass but there was no going back once you had skipped it. The whole experience was fun until the end, seeing everyone

dashing around, cheered on by their teammates, in the hope of winning.

The winning team got a foam cube that they could take apar t and put together again. Overall, it was a great day, and it was the perfect way to put our maths skills to the test! Mouktik Adhage 2J

SCIENCE QUIZ TEAM Eight of us from Second and Third Form went to a National Science Competition at the Science Museum on Wednesday 29 January. We went by tube and arrived in plenty of time to meet our mums, dads and grannies who were suppor ting us. The quiz was in the IMAX theatre where we sat in our two teams and had a handset to choose our answer. It was rather nail-biting as we only got our

W O R L D B O O K D AY World Book Day 2020 was delivered with a Shakespearean theme and, on a fairly damp morning in March, boys gathered in the Collyer Hall to celebrate the work of the ultimate storyteller. An assor tment of witches, donkeys, noblemen and villains played a game called ‘Hip-Hop or Shakespeare?’, noticing the similarities in language and rhythm between ar tists like Jay-Z and the

elf-skinned maggot-pie’! As ever, the Junior School boys threw themselves into the spirit of the day, showing off a huge and imaginative range of costumes, including two magnificent Globe Theatres, half the historical English monarchs and at least one damned spot! Then, later that afternoon, half of the Third Form headed off to the real Globe to see a schools’ production of Macbeth – a very fitting highlight of the day – and we were pretty pleased to be seated undercover as the rain poured down in the open-air theatre. It was a great day, and a real celebration of the history of storytelling. CPM

work of the Bard. The boys then learned how to rap Shakespeare to a hip-hop beat, and a group performed the witches spell from ‘Macbeth’ to the audience, before the assembly ended with a wild Shakespearean insult battle. With great relish, prefects and Heads of Houses shouted at one another from opposite sides of the stage, ‘Thou frothy weather-bitten wagtail’ and ‘Thou tottering

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scores after five rounds. King’s Team 1 were ahead of King’s Team 2 – but in the final round the scores changed and Team 2 came sixth and Team 1 came ninth out of 26 teams. It was a great, fun experience – even if the handsets didn’t work all the time and made us a bit trigger happy! Aaron Brown, Rory Fraser and James Geijtenbeek 2R

HOUSE WIMBLEDON TO B A N G KO K The challenge? Be the first School House (KCJS) to travel from KCS Wimbledon to KCS Bangkok by completing a range of exercises whilst at home or in school (Third Form). Initially, the responses were good as the boys were very keen to get moving and be the first to reach the bronze medal target: Paris. By the star t of the second week, the challenge took off with a total of 600 responses, 428 of which came in following the weekend; all of a sudden there was a real sense of competition amongst the Houses. Despite a slow star t in week 1, Norman went from four th to first over the course of the weekend, and they were able to maintain this ferocious pace throughout.

By 22nd June, the results were in, and we had a winner. Norman had clinched the victory by about one hundred kilometres, with Windsor making an incredible comeback from last to take second place. Tudor were third and Stuar t four th. For the final week of school, the challenge involved all the Houses coming together and working as one big KCJS community. Their new challenge was to reach a total distance of 50,000 kilometres by the end of the week, and I can confirm that this was achieved. A big well done to everyone involved for their fantastic achievement. LY

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The boys in the Junior School took par t in a wide range of exercises in contributing towards the total distance including walking, cycling and body weight exercises such as press ups and squats. The boys also involved their families in order to maximise the total distance for their House, and it was great to hear that so many families were getting out over the weekends and going for long cycle rides.

The third week saw the total number of responses go up to one thousand, with all the Houses reaching their silver medal target: Istanbul. Norman were still in the lead at this point, with Tudor in second, Stuar t in third and Windsor in four th. There was great encouragement amongst the boys on their House Teams pages, which motivated more boys in their House to get involved. As we approached the final week, the race tightened up. Windsor suddenly stepped up their game and were homing in on the leaders, Norman and Tudor. With five hundred kilometres to go, all three Houses were within one hundred kilometres of each other, making for an intense and exciting finish.

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CHESS The Junior School began the year with the trophies for the U11 and U13 national competitions, and high hopes of retaining them. It ends the year still in possession of the trophies, but in the most disappointing circumstances possible.

team. Eight boys represented the 1st team this year : Shahvez Ali, Luca Buanne, Diego Cordova Lopez, Wilfred Hill-Wood, Sanjit Selva Kumar, Sen Patel, Alfred Soulier and Samvrit Subin. Well done to all these boys on their achievements. Although the U11 and U13 teams were robbed of the chance to compete at the national finals by the cancellation of all ‘over the board’ chess from March onwards, the nation’s lockdown has led to a remarkable flowering in online chess at all levels. The school was in the vanguard of this move online, playing its first remote fixtures over the Easter holidays. An online chess club has been set up, enabling weekly Chess Ladder sessions to continue without a break, and the school played in division one of a hastily arranged U18 ‘Four Nations Chess League’ online competition. In addition, we have played U11 and U13 matches against the schools likely to have been serious rivals at the national finals. The results of these matches suggest that the King’s teams would have been very difficult to beat.

U11 (featuring Shahyan Ali, Alp Kucukyildiz, Sanjit Selva Kumar, Zain Patel, Hari Singh, Alfred Soulier Samvrit Subin) and U13 (consisting of Shahvez Ali, Luca Buanne, Diego Cordova Lopez and Sanjit Selva Kumar) teams were able to qualify with few alarms for the ECF national finals, but neither event was played. Although the national finals fell foul of lockdown, we did have time for plenty of successful chess, star ting in September with the Rushmere Championships. This saw 32 boys competing for the trophy, won this year by Alp Kucukyildiz. For the ninth year, the school hosted an U13 ‘jamboree’ in October which was a huge success in every way: 160 players from schools as far away as Blackheath came together to fight for The Summerscale Cup. The King’s team retained the cup, and in doing so qualified for the ECF U13 national final, but the day as usual was also a celebration of mass par ticipation in chess with a high propor tion of players taking par t in their very first chess competition.

One final online event rounded off the year in celebratory fashion: a tournament to mark the tenth anniversary of the first ever Junior School chess match. Former players now in the Senior School took par t, as well as some Old Boys, so the event had the atmosphere of a gathering of the clan. It was also a very strong competition so while first place went to a boy who has just finished the Upper Sixth, the top placed Junior School boy, Sanjit Selva Kumar, scored a great result to share second place. As always, we have to say goodbye, and thank you, to boys who have been key to the club’s success in recent years: Shahvez Ali (this year’s Captain of Chess, and previously par t of victorious teams in both U11 and U13 national competitions) and Diego Cordova Lopez (par t of last year’s winning U13 team) are the only boys to have played in every 1st team fixture this year. They have both shown outstanding character in wanting to take on the challenge of playing board one at every oppor tunity, and have made wonderful role models for younger boys in the club. Bryn Davies and Virgile Alexandre have also proved to be very dangerous opponents, both in Chess Ladder games and when representing the school. We wish them every success for their time in the Senior School. MJH

The Junior School first team again played in division 1 of the U18 Briant Poulter Chess League for Surrey schools. This in itself is a significant achievement, and as always the boys rose to the challenge. The season concluded just before lockdown, with the team finishing in fifth place, in the top half of the division and only one win behind the KCS Senior School

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reason, we thought it would be irresponsible to have such a large number of students, due to the popularity of the two clubs in question, paired with one teacher. In addition, the rooms and facilities needed for the clubs are just about big enough for the Rushmere attendees, and with the addition of Priory students the rooms would be overly cramped and pupils might have to share their ingredients, for example.

JUNIOR FORUM I think that whoever reads this can agree that 2020 was definitely a strange year and obviously schools all around the world were affected. At KCJS, there is a group of students who come together under the name ‘Junior Forum’, and these students are responsible for voicing their concerns and making suggestions for what can be improved about the school to teachers. Of course, it was difficult this year for the forum to be productive with the introduction of the quarantine measures. One of the ideas that really caused an educated uproar in our forum was the idea of vegan days, and how they featured all too frequently. Climate change is affecting the planet more than ever before, and a big contributor to this is the existence of today’s global meat production market. For this reason, the catering depar tment at King’s decided to implement vegan/vegetarian days. However, this idea proved unpopular with many of the pupils as, understandably, most children prefer meat and chicken over quorn or vegetable stews. The main problem seemed to be the meat substitutions, such as quorn. Many students felt that they would much rather eat a vegetarian meal, such as a salad, over a meat-substitute meal. We came to the conclusion that the catering staff would try to make fewer meals with meat alternatives. In addition, another topic that came up multiple times was the idea of chromebooks and other electronic devices being used more frequently during lessons for educational purposes. At the time of discussion, the forum had no idea that vir tual school was even a possibility, so we found lots of cons which, at the time, outweighed the pros. These cons ranged from the difficulty for some students and teachers to perform cer tain tasks on their laptops or tablets to the technical issues that come up all too often during lessons. For this reason, we concluded that the laptops and tablets being used more frequently, even though they may have been more fun for some students, would simply be too tricky to implement and waste lesson time which could be spent learning. However, I believe that we should rethink this outcome as, following the vir tual schooling during lockdown, students and staff alike have become more accustomed to electronic devices and cer tain issues are now able to be resolved much more easily.

Lastly, for a couple of years now our head of Junior Forum, Mr McAuslan, has been keen to inaugurate a talent show in the Junior School. The pupils at King’s received this idea with welcome arms, and we managed to devise a voting system, auditions, audition dates and more. Unfor tunately, the event was not able to take place due to the lockdown period coinciding with the planned date for the talent show. However, this story shows that at King’s, the Junior Forum really strives to aid the school in creating more and more possibilities for pupils, and the addition of the talent show would have been a way for pupils to demonstrate their extra-curricular abilities in front of an audience. Hopefully, next year, the new forum will be able to work on realising our ambition for a Junior School talent show. As an Upper Remove pupil, the 2019-2020 year was my last in the Junior School, and I am so glad that I managed to become a representative of the forum. In each and every meeting, I enjoyed the combination of great minds, different personalities and the sheer confidence of King’s boys to express their views and tell the staff what we can improve at school. I would like to thank Mr McAuslan for his always-positive mindset, and for being such a great head of the forum, and I will be sad to see him leave King’s. I know he will be welcomed with open arms in his new position in Bangkok. Ben van Broekhoven URCM

Fur thermore, we discussed the addition of new clubs, or clubs being made more available to students from cer tain year groups. For example, cooking and gardening clubs are only available to Rushmere, and Priory are not able to attend. Many students felt that they would enjoy going to these sor ts of clubs, and the students and staff really tried to make it happen. However, these clubs are already widely attended by Rushmere, and there are limited members of staff who can run such clubs. For this

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Autumn It was an action packed first term for House events. It all star ted with a hilarious House assembly at the beginning of term in which we had to throw table tennis balls at each other and bounce them into buckets. In our next House assembly we voted for our charity to be 4ocean, which helps to prevent plastic in the sea. Later in the term we had more assemblies, which included a Christmas quiz that proved to be quite mind-boggling. ‘Do they know it’s Christmas?’ is by Band Aid – you Normans should all know that!! The lower years had a difficult star t to the term at their House football events but this was balanced out by two great wins by the Upper and Lower Removes at their House rugby in October. November brought some freezing and rainy crosscountry events, but luckily Norman had impressive results in nearly all year groups, including first place for the Upper Removes. However, the jewel in the Norman crown this term was the Priory House Swimming Gala, where we came first by an astounding thir ty points. Thank you to Mr Connolly and all our House prefects and teachers for their great organisation this term… Let’s hope our amazing results continue throughout the year. Go Norman! Dylan Stacey URHM

Spring It was a pretty good term for Norman House. We tried hard in our single event this term, House Squash, where four of our Lower and Upper Remove boys managed to come in second place! We enjoyed two excellent assemblies, including our annual ‘Beat the Teacher’ competition, where, after two years of shame, the students managed to overcome the teachers, remarkably easily. Four of our prefects also organised a fun quiz to do in our other assembly, which I am happy to say everyone thoroughly enjoyed! Overall it was an awesome term, despite not being at school for the last par t. It has been an honour to be House Captain for Norman. Amaan Naseem URHM

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Summer In spite of current events, Norman House did not stop. We managed to come second in the Priory Vir tual Spor ts Day, and even better yet managed to come first in the Rushmere Spor ts Day. These are some amazing results, and thank you to all who helped by taking par t, in par ticular those who won gold, silver and bronze. On top of this, we won the ‘Race to Bangkok’, where members of each House had to complete exercises to move their House closer to the destination. Despite a slow star t, Norman managed to pull it out of the bag and finish first. Once more I would like to thank all those who contributed, as in a race such as this every entry counts. And of course, who could forget all the amazing House Ar t entries. I would like to say a special thanks to all my fellow Upper Remove boys for all their contributions to this House over the years, and wish them a good future in their Senior School Houses. Joven Sekhon URB

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Autumn Stuar t emerged from the autumn term as perhaps the most consistent House, turning in admirable performances across the years, and in all spor ts. First, credit should go to the Stuar t Transition House football teams and First Formers that competed in the House cross-country for well-deserved victories. (And par ticularly to Harry Klein for winning the Third Form cross-country race.) But, it’s not all about winning! Stuar t deserves its current place (just two and a half points behind Tudor), having achieved second place in exactly half of the twelve autumn term fixtures, putting a good distance between Stuar t, and Norman and Windsor, in third and four th place respectively. On the final day of term, Stuar t turned in a wonderful performance to win one of the highlights of the year – the House quiz event. With a bit more luck, some narrow losses could have been victories, and Stuar t should be upbeat about prospects for the spring and summer term. I am proud of having been House Captain for such fierce competitors, whom I know will relish the challenges ahead. Fur thermore, I am especially proud of the funds we raised for the Stroke Foundation, which will go to improving the lives of those coming to terms with life-changing events. Harry Rushton URB

Spring The spring term saw a promising star t for Stuar t. Although the term had to be cut shor t, I feel like our House has only grown closer (despite us being physically fur ther apar t). We won the only event that took place this term (congratulations to the squash team!), and we enjoyed some incredible assemblies hosted by our Head of House, Mr Brady. Even though we missed a lot of events and my House Captain’s end of term assembly, I feel like this term was a success for the House, shrinking the gap between us and Tudor to a very tight margin of half a point! Not only that, but the distance between us and Norman is steadily increasing, so even more congratulations are due! This House means a lot to me, from the mind-boggling levels of appreciation and par ticipation, to the closely contested House competitions. I feel like I owe it to the rest of the boys and the teachers to share my appreciation for everything our House has done. I am excited to see the bright future ahead for Stuar t House with the younger boys being so strong! Our House has done incredible things this term, and I hope that our winning ways continue into the summer term if possible. Good luck Stuar t – let’s bring another trophy home! Zachary Olivieri-Maalouf URP

an unfor tunate four th place, not far behind the other competitors. Stuar t has done very well considering the circumstances we were all in, and the Stuar t House staff have kept everything under control despite the inconveniences that Covid-19 has caused. It was an honour to be the final Stuar t House Captain in the year 2020, and I wish all Stuar t House pupils the best of luck for the future. Alastair Heathcote URB

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Summer The summer term of 2020 was not your typical term with Covid-19 sending everybody home into a so-called ‘vir tual school’. Although all of us were sent home, this did not prevent an event as impor tant as Spor ts Day from taking place. A ‘vir tual’ Spor ts Day took place with many members of Stuar t amongst the winners, and Max Losson in Upper Remove and Harry Klein in Third Form both winning the Victor Ludorum. Although the House competition for the year was severely hampered by Covid-19, the events that were able to take place meant that the grand total of points for all the Houses was calculated and Stuar t were found to have come in second place, losing by half a point to Tudor. Along with Spor ts Day, there was another spor ting event that the Houses were involved in. The Houses were competing against each other in a vir tual race to King’s School in Bangkok. Although many members of Stuar t took par t in this competition, we came in

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Autumn The term was excellent for Tudor! All the boys gave their best and they should feel proud of their achievements. Huge congratulations go to Lower Remove, Third Form and Transition for all coming first in the House cross-country. The weather conditions were tough but despite this, they managed to succeed, crossing the finish-line with smiles on their faces. The U11s and the U9s also achieved victory in the House football. In the final week of term, House swimming was a great success as we came second! Over the term, there were many eventful House meetings and activities, ranging from quizzes to a The Price is Right game show. The boys seemed to enjoy every moment. House Activities Day was memorable in October. Unfor tunately the weather did not cooperate, but we still managed to have the games and activities indoors. These included a treasure map raffle and the chopstick and jelly bean challenge. Lots of fun was had by all. This year, Tudor has chosen to suppor t Tusk – a charity which helps African wildlife and education. All in all, this term has been a great success and it was a privilege to be House Captain! Will Barney URHM

Spring Tudor has had a very unusual and challenging term as we battled with the constant struggles of online learning for the final two weeks. As a result of this, only one House event went ahead. I would like to mention the persevering Tudor squash players for taking par t. We also enjoyed the House assemblies which took place this term. At the end of the spring term, Tudor was leading in the House competitions by only half a point! A very memorable moment for me was when Miss Hunter chose our House song to be, ‘I Want It That Way’ by the Backstreet Boys. It was a shame that we were not able to perform it for House Music in the summer term. All in all, it was an honour to be the Tudor House Captain this term, but I wish we could have shown our fighting spirits in the rugby and football events. Maximillian Lenkiewicz URHM

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Summer Tudor had a very good term. Sadly we were not able to do some of the normal events like House cricket due to the Covid-19 crisis, but we managed to hold some events vir tually and even perform very well in them, overcoming technical issues and giving our best. Everyone should be proud of their contributions to Tudor. House Ar t was very successful, and we won with lots of wonderful entries. Congratulations to all the boys who entered their work. A very impor tant and unique event was the first ever KCJS â€˜vir tualâ€™ Spor ts Day! Third Form took par t in their events in school, whereas everybody else par ticipated from home. Everyone gave their best in all the events, and the winners should be tremendously proud of themselves. Priory Spor ts Day was great as we came out with a resounding first place, whilst Rushmere came third. Congratulations to all the event winners. Spor ts Day was definitely the highlight of the term for me. The fact that we were able to stick together and have such a good term really emphasizes the strong bond that we have in Tudor. For me, this term was a huge success and I have loved being House Captain. Nikhil Santebennur URP

WINDSOR HOUSE

Autumn The Autumn term was somewhat mixed for Windsor. In September, the boys chose our House charity, 4ocean, whose mission is to clean the oceans and coastline of plastic whilst looking also to improve how we use and consume plastic in our daily lives. This is par ticularly relevant given the recent attention around pollution and climate change. On the spor ts pitches, this term proved to be one of misfor tune for Windsor. On so many occasions we have been so close to winning but unfor tunately just missed out. We did manage to secure first place in both the Second Form football and cross-country, which was due to some very excellent performances by the younger members of the House. Regardless of our results, I do have to say that the boys in Windsor have given their all and shown true determination and commitment, even if we did not obtain the desired results. Moving on from spor t, just before half-term we had House Charity Day which I’m sure all the boys loved taking par t in whilst helping to suppor t our charity. The highlight of this term for me was seeing the Windsor boys come together, try their hardest and have fun while doing so. House assemblies have been a joy to be a par t of this term, with Mr McAuslan always making them enter taining and making sure everyone feels involved – especially the CLUEDO assembly. Overall it has been a real honour for me to be House Captain of this great House full of amazing boys. I hope in the future we will have more luck in the House competitions and earn some more first place finishes. Oliver van den Bosch URP

Spring This was the term for us to make our comeback! However, cruelly, we have been given little chance to show our fellow Houses the skill we possess between us. This term we would normally have had roughly ten or so chances to prove ourselves, yet as things turned out we only had one. House squash this term gained us one point, which is better than none! Squash may not be our strong point, but we were denied several oppor tunities to shine. We have cer tainly beaten all the other Houses in consistency, and we have raised a considerable amount of money for our charity, 4ocean. But the year is not over, we still have the summer term to go, and our remarkable teachers are organising remote House events. I am proud to have been House Captain for such an extraordinary and, cer tainly, abnormal term. So, the message is, put in all your effor t, and we may just reach our target. Let’s aim high for the summer term! Ben van Broekhoven URCM Summer This term was very strange: online learning and much less spor t. However, the spor ts depar tment, despite being limited in what they could do, produced many interesting activities and events, such as ‘vir tual’ Spor ts Day, the weekly PE sessions and the Wimbledon to Bangkok race in which we came third. This was very enjoyable and proved that with creativity anything is possible. I star ted King’s in Third Form as an eager Windsorian. I have always been made to feel welcome by all the Windsor staff and pupils alike. I enjoyed many House events such as Spor ts Day, House squash, House music and many others. I do not see Windsor as a House, but as a community of people from different years and classes who come together and make such a great team. Being House Captain was a great learning experience for me: to have a lot of responsibility in representing my House and to be a role model for younger pupils. I am slightly disappointed that I could not do very many things for this great House, but I am never theless thankful for the oppor tunity. My favourite memory was playing the violin with my brother in last year’s House music competition. I would like to thank everyone for making this term such a great one. Jai Sarkar URB

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Super Hero Poem I am Super-Mathematician; I whizz fearlessly through my tough timetables. I am not afraid of any angry, gruesome numerals. I am always ready for supersonic symmetrical shapes And gratefully hand them in to my surprised teachers. I smile, Teeth sparkle, Eyes shine. I search enthusiastically through the internet To find the most astronomically challenging maths quizzes. I excitedly sit down with my delicious cup of hot chocolate And do my brain aching homework. I never get bored of finding the one and only logic solution To hand into my inspiring teacher. But I always hope for a shiny, gleaming distinction. Nicholas Ellingshorst TDM

My Moon Poem The stars in the dark, shining brightly, I saw the moon smiling lightly. Moonbeams bouncing off our rocket, While I float around in my space jacket. I wonder where we might go, I thought I saw a UFO! We dive into a sea of dark, I really hope we make our mark. The moon will guide our expedition, I hope we have a successful mission. Adam Tan TWL

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Trees Sun – stealer CO2 – storer Wind – whistler Bark – breaker Shade – maker Time – keeper

Rain Puddle – bringer Liquid – shower Water – drencher Head – wetter Smell – taker

Volcano Fire – blaster Lava – spitter Sun – blocker Destruction – bringer Rock – thrower Ash – blower Plate – mover Spark – catapult 64

The Unknown Warrior I wonder if he was always sneaking under the teacherâ€™s desk, meddling with a screwdriver trying to loosen the panels and make the children giggle at school, Or if he was a sensible kid in class and was the only one who didnâ€™t throw paper aeroplanes around the room whilst he was meant to be working and always gets the highest grades in school, I wonder if the crowd applauded every time he whacked the tennis ball with his tennis racket, scored a powerful ace, without a single bead of sweat trickling down his face, I wonder if he was a famous artist and painted better than Vincent van Gogh and Pablo Picasso, I wonder if he had a beautiful wife who always thought of him and wished him good luck every day when he was away at war, Or if he was a lonely man who was killed by accident or during battle,

I wonder if he loved nature and his favourite hobby was to study animals and skilfully climb lanky trees, I wonder if he actually wanted to be a soldier or if he was drafted into the army. James Koutsovasilis TDM

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I wonder if he was a rich man and had lots of wealth or was a poor homeless man,

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The Owl Files 9:30pm Darkness creeps up on London Zoo. The yawning zookeepers stumble back to their houses for the night. In the darkness, you would think everything is asleep and quiet but that is not the case. Some animals are merely stirring… 10:00pm The moon shines a dim light over the tree branches, casting shadows and revealing a pair of fluorescent yellow eyes, lurking in the branches. The light from these eyes grows brighter and out of the light emerges a midnight-black, sharp-beaked owl, its eyes looking impatiently up at the sky. All of a sudden, a second owl, white this time, comes swooping down to join its friend. When the last lamps flicker off, the zoo is plunged into darkness, apart from the quarter-moon, which looks like a speck of light, high in the sky. 10:30pm The owls take off from the trees and swoop continuously around the sky, as if searching for something. Finally, they perch on the café roof. A small window is open at the back. The owls swoop in, one by one and find what they were looking for. The large chocolate cheesecake, sitting in the middle of the café is teeming with mice. The owls give a hoot of joy and glide down to eat the mice. The owls’ presence makes the mice scatter in all directions. The mice squeak desperately but soon enough all the mice have been caught and eaten by the ravenous owls. The owls don’t know it, but the midnight-black owl has left a small feather, black as a nightmare, under the table, where the cheesecake stood. Will the zookeepers find out? 11:00pm – 2:30am The content owls land back in their trees and think of more meals and activities. The two owls start preening their feathers and hoot into the night sky. The shadow of the trees seems to etch a shadow into the cold and deserted path. Apart from the sound of crickets, the zoo is silent. Suddenly, a fish leaps out of its pond. The owls turn their heads intently towards the fish habitat and scowl. They do not like to be disturbed. The owls avert their gaze and go back to staring at the sky.

2:30am – 5:00am The sky is slowly turning lighter, so the owls must wrap up their fun soon. If the zookeepers find that they’ve been awake after 5:00 the results won’t be pretty because every animal in the zoo follows a strict sleeping and waking timetable. The owls do not like to think what would happen if they are not back in time. They spread their wings and majestically swoop out of their tree again and decide to meet some friends. The owls stop outside a hawk’s nest which is empty except for a luminous bright ball which turns out to be an egg. They glide out and visit a heron’s nest. The heron is home and the owls give a hoot of greeting. The owls stay for long enough to notice a small orange speck, rising over the horizon. They hoot goodbye to the heron and swoop out of the nest. The owls return to their home, nestle in the branches and go to sleep just when the first weary zookeeper gives a muffled yawn and walks out of his door. The owls have earned themselves a well-deserved long break. Until the next night, the owls will be in the branches and will emerge once again. Goodnight Owls! Aarav Gupta 1BP

The Sea

The sea is a huge blue desert, It is a sparkling diamond. The sea is an aquatic wonder, It is a turquoise adventure.

The sea is a universe of water, It is an endless pit of sand. The sea is a block of ice, It is Antarctica.

The sea is a dangerous force, It will sweep you far away. I’ve given you a warning, Watch out for the sea.

The sea is a noisy rainforest, It is a wild underwater jungle. The sea is a sleeping monster, It is a danger zone.

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The Mouse, The Cat And The Bell Mouse was on a daring mission: to prevent the mighty cat from eating their kind. Mouse had grey spotless fur as smooth as silver silk, elegant, intelligent whiskers and eyes as blue as twin sapphires. His hobbies were to collect bells, any size or any colour. His house was littered with them: in the closet, in his bed, in the dishwasher (maybe he wanted to wash them?), in his clothes and even in the toilet. He was obsessed with them! He also liked to wear velvet ribbons on his clothes. Mouse set off. An hour later he was deep in the dreaded cat’s territory. He was in a forest bursting with stinging nettles, rotten logs and the occasional bush full of poisonous berries. He sat down to have a rest but he was so exhausted that as soon as he lay down, he fell into a deep slumber. Cat heard his snoring (Mouse was famous for his snoring around these par ts, he could wake up an elephant with it) a mile away in his cave. Surprise, surprise, the hungry cat ran as fast as its legs could carry it. Soon the cat was right above him and was licking its chops. A second later it had put him in its mouth and had swallowed him whole. Later Mouse woke up and thought out loud, ‘Where am I?’ Then he realised the terrible truth. He was horror-stricken and sat there, endlessly blubbing. Suddenly he heard some head-splitting snoring (almost as loud as his own). An idea rocketed into his head. He took his most beloved prized bell out of his furry little pocket, it was rather large and was made from the finest bronze. Then he untied one of his velvet ribbons from his jacket. Moments later Mouse climbed up into the fetid mouth with the agility of an elite ninja. He eased open the putrid mouth, careful not to touch the serrated teeth. Finally, he was out. He ventured over to the cat’s neck making sure he didn’t clumsily trip over a twig. Having made no noise, Mouse tied the ribbon to the cat’s tarnished neck and attached the bell. Before he secured it, he gave the bell a jolly good scrub. Then he secretly and silently slipped away and ran back home to tell everyone what he had so valorously done. Now whenever mice hear that bell they run away before the cat eats them. In a dark gloomy cave, a cat thought to itself, dying of starvation, to always chew before swallowing. Theodore Vladmirov 1M

Life At A Zoo At Night As soon as the zookeeper closed his door to his lodge, collapsed on his bed and closed his eyes, he heard a roar of a lion before drifting off into a deep sleep. Meanwhile, all of the animals huddled together to discuss their plan. Charlie, the cheeky monkey, was up to no good. AGAIN. He had thought of one of his naughty plans. He said to the other animals, ‘Because there have been no more visitors and no more people to annoy, I’ve been thinking of something fun that we could do.’ All of the other animals cheered. Charlie whispered, ‘What if we sneak into the café, and have a HUGE feast! A midnight feast! There will be cupcakes, Haribos, chocolate cake, cookies, fudge, brownies, and maybe even ice cream! Maybe with chocolate sauce… and sprinkles!’ Leo the Lion did not like the sound of this at all, he knew they would all get into big trouble. Richard the Rhino thought it was a wonderful idea; he hadn’t had an ice cream since the COVID-19 lockdown. Little children always used to drop their ice creams and Richard could often stick out his tongue and lick the melting Mr. Whippy from the pathway.

Charlie did not forget to keep some for Richard rhino. Charlie brought back Haribos, cakes, fudge, brownies, chocolate and many more sugary treats. When he got back, everyone filled their faces with sweets galore. Except Leo lion who was fast asleep. ‘Don’t tell Leo that we broke into the café and are having a midnight feast!’ Charlie said to the other animals. When they finished their feast, they got back to their enclosures just before the zookeeper opened the door to his lodge to start the day. William Ritchie 1H

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That night, a few minutes after midnight, Charlie gave the sign that it was time. He climbed towards the top of the enclosure and carefully opened the emergency exit window. He dropped onto the ground with a thud and ran to open the penguin enclosure. He was careful not wake the lions, especially Leo. Charlie with his gang of friends together with Percy Penguin and his followers ran to the café. Charlie expertly opened the window and unlocked the door from the inside. The rowdy crowd filled their faces with cakes and ice cream…

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A Person Who Ignored Lockdown in Different Circumstances

Some of Us

Some of us must stay at home And not go out the door, One day there was a man, Some of us are working He loved football and could make a stand. Like we’ve never worked before. Some of us are falling out But one day a virus stopped his fun, With siblings, Dads, and Mothers, That was when he was young. Some of us are reaching out He ignored the rules placed to protect him, And looking after others. He never thought he would become a victim. Some of us have lots of friends To text with and to phone, Some of us have no one However hard he trained, And feel that we’re alone. It didn’t keep the virus away. Some of us feel positive And think that we’re in charge, A cough and then a splutter, Some of us feel anxious His body dropped down to the gutter. And fear the world at large. Some of us have footpaths He woke up no taste or smell, To cycle, walk, and jog, His heart pounded like Easter bells. Some of us have nowhere nice To even walk the dog. His tale lived on, Some of us are welcoming Keeping others from becoming gone. New babies being born, Some of us have lost loved ones Then one day there was a man, And cannot truly mourn. Who decided to go out and make a stand. None of us will ever know What’s really going on, He stood against racism, None of us will think the same To send a cop to prison. When all of this is done. Some of us can choose to spend Thousands more, Our days in fear and dread, Joined the uproar. Some of us can choose to plan For better days ahead. There was one aim, To keep chauvin at bay. Daniel Panna 2R The horrible cop, Deserved a stop. To his career, Went down with jeer. 8 minutes and 46 seconds: We will remember you George Floyd. Alessio Halfon 2R 70

Life In Lockdown Now in 2020, A virus struck the world. We lived a life of plenty, But now, into darkness, we were hurled. We had to learn to work at home, And play with our old toys. The world was no longer ours to roam, Schools were emptied of girls and boys. We couldnâ€™t meet our families, We could only talk on the phone. Some people lived their lives so gloomily, And felt so very alone. On top of that the Government, Were making so many mistakes. They had such pathetic forms of encouragement, When so many lives were at stake.

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But the world was not all doom and gloom, For the NHS existed. With heroes around, life could resume, Because they all persisted. Gyaan Johal 2J

Breaking the Chains Love to the hospitals, Love to my family, Love to strangle my brother from time to time! Ode to the garden, Open the gates, Oh, how I wish to be free. Curfew. The ropes that bind me, Creasing the paper of creativity, Calm. Calm. Calm.

Killing time, Keeling beneath the fear of plague, Kryptonite. Covid is our Kryptonite. Devotion to the lord of chores, Dying for some social reacting, Dealing with the eternal boredom. Onward, we trudge through this misery, Oldness seeping in, Obsessions taking over.

Hari Singh 2B

What is the solution to this problem? Why has it hit so bad? When will it stop? Nobody Knows

Lockdown Anthology 1. There was a young boy from King’s, Who feared Covid among other things. He ran to his bed, And cried ‘I’ll be dead,’ But was surprised by what lockdown brings. 2. The second task was to get his exercise fix, So he signed up for PE with Joe Wicks. So at 9 each morning, He was stretching whilst yawning, And doing lunges before Weetabix. 3. The next task was to learn Microsoft Teams, Which is really the stuff of bad dreams. It downloaded quite fast, But the due date had passed, And assignments were closed by all means. 4. The next job was to order a mask This was surely not an easy task. We searched high and low, Then my dad cried out ‘Oh!’ Your evening bedtime has passed. 5. The task after that was to cut our hair, But my dad can’t be trusted – he has skills like a bear. So we called and we called, But we soon were appalled, No hairdressers did in the least care. 6. The job that came next needed more concentration, It was arts and crafts when I made my creation. It was not Frankenstein, Not monsters of any kind, But I hoped it would cause some elation. 7. The thing that came next was to get WiFi, It was so hard that it nearly made me cry. Our house still had none, Vodafone couldn’t come, They said ‘Call us back late in July.’ 8. The task that was next seemed to be more fun, Time for an egg hunt in the sun! Easter was here, Would the bunny appear, Or had Covid against him won? 9. The task that came next was the quest for food, We tried Amazon but they weren’t in the mood. So we called a local shop, And asked for a food drop, But the price left us quite subdued. 72

10. The task that came next was to use bow and arrow, I tried and tried but the target was too narrow. So I called for my dad, But he was twice as bad, And ended up shooting the wheelbarrow. 11. The eleventh labour were my exams, It ruined all my playing plans. Revision, Revision, Revision, Revision, They were okay despite my trembling hands. 12. Going back to school came last, I thought ‘It will be a blast!’ I ran around like a deer, To get all my gear, In the end it just happened too fast. Marcello Boldrini Diamond 2B Lockdown

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School’s up, Thumbs down, ‘No point trynna turn around’ Wash your hands and social distancing, Come on protests, cause I’m not listening, See my friends, ‘But that’s illegal!’ I’d rather go and see the seagulls! Dominic Cummings, That’s my style! Time to make that mask a smile! Public transport, ‘an absolute no-no’ Me and my family: ‘Come on let’s go-go!’ Was it China, or somebody else? Cause now all it is, is an absolute mess! Another thing that I cannot stand, Is the number of things that just got banned, “No more school, No more sport” Thousands just arrived at court, I’ve got nothing left to say, Except that I’ll have to pay, To have my rights like going out, I don’t care, I don’t have a doubt. But one more thing before I leave. Please just listen, Mary or Steve.

Life In Lockdown Lockdown 2020, Has locked children out of their schools, Away from their friends, And their teachers, And their learning. Lockdown 2020, Has locked grandchildren away from their grandparents, Away from their hugs, And their treats, And their smiles. Lockdown 2020, Has locked children away from their spor t, Away from their football and rugby and cricket, Out of the pools and the gyms, Out of playgrounds and off fields. Lockdown 2020, Has locked everyone out of the shops, Out of the cafes and restaurants, Out of the cinemas and theatres, Out of the hairdressers and barbers.

Lockdown LOCKDOWN Home schooling No drooling Hour exercises The virus rises Stay home Donâ€™t roam Fitness trick. Joe Wicks Wash your hands 5G broadband Zoom meetings Distant seating Teams is broken No souvenirs or tokens Boredom, in a word. LOCKDOWN.

Lockdown 2020, Has kept us apar t from each other, Separated by 2 metres, With gloves and masks for protection, Wary of everyone. Lockdown 2020, Has changed peoples lives forever, Changed what is impor tant, Changed how we are with each other, Changed how we appreciate key workers. Lockdown 2020, Has taught us what is impor tant, Being with family, Looking after each other, Keeping well in our bodies and our minds.

Stanley Cottrell 2J

Lockdown 2020, Has taught us to find the good in every day, In seeing the sun shine and hearing a child laugh, In calling your friend for a chat and a giggle, Lockdown 2020. Rory Fraser 2R

Lockdown Lockdown, oh lockdown, you’re the opposite of fun, I can’t wait till you’re finally done. There is nothing I like about you, nothing at all , I’m stuck with my brother and I can’t watch football. I disagree. I think it been fine, look around you, nature’s in its prime And sure, you don’t get to see your friends, But it’s not like the world is going to end. And think how grateful you are when food arrives, And the cupboards fill up with a big surprise. Look outside at the colourful butterflies, And then look up at the quiet blue skies. You have time like you’ve never had before. So, don’t lock up your heart and slam the door. So, I guess what I’m saying is that you can be sad – Sit on your sofa, eat snacks and be mad – Or you could have fun; it won’t go faster But you could take the time to master skills you didn’t know you had. I know it’s not perfect but it’s not that bad. Peter Stockil 2B

On a wedding day that was meant to be – It was cancelled due to Covid-19 – Bluebells hung limp in the morning, Birds sing up in the sky giving forewarning. The hospitals lie with a sea of people, Church bells ringing in the steeple, Graves lie open and closed, And those outside are exposed. A patient lies on a hospital bed, Doctors rush around – soon he might be dead, Outside the family weeps for Covid is a killer, And then the heart rate goes to nil, and the man lies deathly still. Inside people wait in the prison of home, Waiting. Alone. Alone. Alone. Galvin Kitchen 2R

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Lockdown

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Another year has now arrived, Yet to become a mess. Chaos spread across the world, Causing mayhem and distress. A virus started in Wuhan, Sadness from case to case. But little did the people know, Of this threat we had to face. They named this the coronavirus, A virus killed by soap. So we stay at home and wash our hands, And then we have some hope. But just because we’re stuck at home, Doesn’t mean we can’t have fun. But as long as we keep our distance, Then the battle can be won. After a while, we start to get bored, Just sitting around for a week. Waiting for cases to go down, And that the virus gets past its peak. Then eventually we’re past the peak, And we can get out of our home. Then sport begins and shops reopen, So off to the streets we roam. That was a very stressful time, And the world was full of plenty. We are in an unusual year, The crazy twenty twenty.

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new hobbies began people started to buy online bikes were rusting dogs were happy people were bored people were worried consoles were overworking YouTube became a hit screen time kept rising the news kept on worrying us Boris kept screaming tempers were rising people were shouting LIFE WAS A MESS!

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Matteo Lanza 3A

My Favourite Things Lockdown: Adapted Lyrics Playing on my Xbox and reading old novels; My dad wants to go out: oh, how he grovels. Watching my neighbours: they’re keeping their frown; These are the things that I love in lockdown. Homemade prawn dumplings and discounted berries; Chilli-spiced chicken the colour of cherries. Sitting for hours watching apples go brown; These are the things that I love in lockdown. Wearing my best suit to impress my cupboard; Refusing to get dressed: I still remain stubborn. Imagining having a life as a clown; These are the things that I love in lockdown. When the news comes, On the TV, When I’m feeling trapped... I simply think of these things I love And then I somehow adapt! Eating my heart out then feeling so unwell, Then feeling pride or shame: who can ever tell? Thinking of my death: in chocolate I’ll drown! These are the things that I love in lockdown. Sleeping till ten and forgetting my worries, Then spending two hours doing all my studies. Going to Tesco in a dressing gown; These are the things that I love in lockdown. When the news comes, On the TV, When I’m feeling trapped... I simply think of these things I love And then I somehow adapt! Adapt! Adapt! Arya Chandrasekharan 3MH

Lockdown Poems Poem 1 Lockdown for me is all about baking. Cookies, cakes, apple crumbles and biscuits, Every day, and I’m not faking. Poem 2 In Poem One I had some fun, In Poem Two I’m feeling blue. This lockdown isn’t stopping soon, And I feel a growing sense of doom. Poem 3 Unemployment surges throughout the land. Food banks fill; the virus is out of hand. Death rates soar, the lights go dim, The odds of normality returning are slim.

Oscar Tostivin 3A The War Of 2020 When you think of war What comes to mind? Heroes fighting with valour Or a bloody frontline? You think of all the death; Of both good and bad People like Macbeth. What experience have you had? I think of a horrible virus And a life in lockdown; A frontline of doctors Not burning towns. Taran Sekhon 3MH

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Poem 4 A final poem to say how I feel, I have to say this lockdown has not felt real. When Boris said ‘Go back to school’ I thought ‘Hurray! The Broadband Wars are over!’ But still, my friends cannot come over.

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Lockdown Lockdown has given us more time to do things such as: Open books we wouldn’t have opened before, Catch-up with friends over Zoom calls, Kitchen activities like cooking and baking, Do fun art projects, Opening packets of food we haven’t tried before, Win online quizzes with friends, Nothing, doing nothing. Scott Hawkings LRW Lockdown Locked up in cosy, little cottages with nothing much to do, Over the top protection for me and for you, Coronavirus clearly isn’t the best, Knowingly, we can all say coronavirus is a pest, yet Determinedly we battle boredom, but Oh how long it’s been since a football game where we can all chant at the opposition, calling them names, but we must Win. Win against this illness. That’s what we’ll do, we desperately hope, Nothing is gonna beat the human race, especially if it’s just under a microscope. Robert Geijtenbeek LRW

Lockdown Labyrinth of rules changing every day, ‘Obey and stay at home,’ well that is what they say. Challenges of learning and playing without friends, Knots of confusion the ends never end. Downing Street drowning in questions, Over the computer they are just like a normal lesson, ‘We shall meet again,’ the Queen encouraged, NHS has been admirably engaged. Matteo d’Allance de Melo LRW Lockdown

Saksham Agrawal LRW Lockdown Lonely people, waiting to get out, Only a couple of months to go… Can’t go out, Kicking a football round the garden is just getting old now… Oh No! We’re out of milk! We’re all going to diiiiiiieeeee! Working from home has become a new way of life… No one enjoys it. Alexander Golder LRW

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Announced in March of 2020, The country told to stay at home, The nation in a state of emergency, Not allowed to leave their abode. Draconian measures put in place, In an attempt to control the virus, Then the scientists began their race, So that it was safe for us. Rainbows went up for the NHS, Symbols of support, They never took a moment’s rest, And for us, they fought.

When People Stay Home

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When people stayed home They listened to music, And watched tv from Dawn to dusk. They solved puzzles, Won board games And built up family trust.

This year something occurred, Something we have never seen, A dangerous force appeared, A trouble for each human being.

They made new bonds And fitness plans, That collapsed after a day. They learnt how to zoom And appreciated silence; A thing they’d never heard before. They played games Until their thumbs went numb, Then went and stuffed their face, With crisps and sweets Until they couldn’t Physically eat anymore. Children learnt to bake While adults got new hobbies That would rarely last more than a day. When we come out of lockdown, No one knows what will happen, But one thing’s for sure, People have changed. Edward Pedropillai LRW

So here we are, in our homes, For months and months on end, Trapped inside, stuck inside, So hard for us to comprehend. I miss the outside world, Confined from within, I miss the parks, I miss the air, Oh I don’t know where to begin. When the sun streams in through the window, All I can do is look, Because I cannot go outside, Look what this virus took. I miss the occasional train passing by, Or even a regular bus, The things we never really thought about, Have all dawned upon us. It seems like this lockdown is coming to an end, Simply knock on wood, When we can go outside at last, Man, will that feel good. Ethan Yan LRG

Family

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I wish I had a sibling, Someone to help me through, This horrible, wretched, annoying thing, ‘Lockdown’ – A hell come true.

I can see it now, I’m old and grey, Where the light of fire glows, The ice whips at my home, Age seeps into my bones.

Every day was so much torture, I remember a time of families, Loneliness overcame my senses. Broken by new-born plague, It was like a plane suddenly crashing through Where sadness and sickness and death , My useless, weak defences. Were roaming the broken homes. The hot summer air filled my lungs, Slowly poisoning my throat, Indoors and outdoors were both the same, A torture death-chain coat. Every day I wonder when This period is going to end I hope it ends soon! I hope But whether or not – it depends

Rui Nabeshima LRG

But that was the time of light and joy, Of rebirth and redemption, Where wildlife crept through urban masses, A jungle of brick and stone. I remember a time of quiet heroes, Born not of cape nor shield, But with hearts of unrelenting hope, And minds of holy men. I remember a time of a wondrous wind, Singing in my ears, While family rides beside me, Beauty inside their hearts. I sit beside the kindling fire, A smile upon my face, And in the mirror, all I see, Is a child of innocent times. Patrick Bouch LRG

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In this period I definitely learnt The value of having friends. However much you fight with them It will be a good memory in the end.

I remember a time of warning and fear, An apocalyptic fate, Where dark and grey emotions, Poured into saddened souls.

Cautionary to Those Who IGNORE Lockdown (In the style of Yoda) Dear people of this world, At us COVID-19 has been hurled, Difficult times these are, But the end of this period isnâ€™t far. This virus is deadly, But some sacrifice readily, To save lives, And out of Earth COVID-19 drive. Yet some amongst our population, Break lockdown despite hospitalisations, Endangering us all, And watching whilst our countries fall. People of that category hear this plea, You will one day be able to visit and have tea, But for now, you must wait, Until this virus is sedate. Your selfishness is risking lives, Of social contact weâ€™ve been deprived, But we must see the reality, If we want any normality. We will soon be free once more, After lockdown in these months four. But for now, stay home, and watch the news, Await the day we may do as we choose. Hari Narendranath URHM

The Virus

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Many millions: infected, Hundreds of thousands: dead, Covid-19: killer virus, So frequently, such phrases said. Economies: crashed and halted, Key staff; off sick; in quarantine, Furloughed: on minimal pay roll, A major depression: foreseen. Cities and roads: deserted, Public houses and restaurants: void, Schools and businesses: abandoned, Populations: quite paranoid. Shops: clean out of hand gel, Milk, bread and tins: no supply, Toilet rolls: snatched in mere seconds Elderly customers: priority or die. Surely there’s hope, surely somewhere? A vaccine, treatment or cure, Viral death by tropical heatwave, Human immunity enhancer, for sure. Obliteration by mass solidarity, No hesitancy, doubt, or fear, Armies of volunteers: ready! Today; this month; all year. Triumph in global combat, Planet mission: COVID-19, Stand strong; fight now; overpower, Our viral warrior: unseen. Tracking: by antibody testing, Diligence: with soap and hygiene, Treatment: with ITU oxygen, Vigilance: by lockdown routine. Invisible war: conquered Millions: back to employ, Schools open; roads fill; pubs bustle, Social times return to enjoy. William James URB

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T H E P L AY T H AT N E V E R WA S : ‘DAISY PULLS IT OFF!’ Months of effor t, perspiration, improvisation and fun juddered to a halt on Sunday 15 March at 17:02. Of course, we understood why the production had to be cancelled but the tears and grimaces the next day showed how hard the boys had been hit by this disappointment. Months before in September, things had been so different. 75 auditioners had been whittled down to just 13 and golly there were some good actors amongst them. My huge sadness is that some of those wonderful performances will never be seen. So many brilliant cameos were so nearly ready for presentation: Cammy’s inebriated mother, Z as the scatty French mistress; Anton with his ludicrously uncoordinated, slightly sinister Russian music teacher – a triumph of physical comedy; Alfie would have brought the house down with his extraordinary creation of a middle-aged school mistress, as would PG as a gloriously ’daffy’ Headmistress. Other highlights would have been the Yousuf/Ben combination as the two strapping, games-playing prefects (Ben’s comic timing was the envy of us all); Tony’s hugely believable Italian school girl – and those two stuck up school girl villains – Edward and Patty – the former, hysterical as the living embodiment of felinity and the latter – the snitchiest snitch of all time! So much of the burden of

explaining the plot fell on Ankit who had hundreds of lines to learn and we salute his commitment and his constant desire to improve his performance. I suppose the pupil we all feel most sorry for is young Harry who, it is fair to say, shone from the audition onwards – memorising hundreds of lines apparently effor tlessly – needing very little direction and lighting up the stage constantly with his energy and intelligent acting. A rare talent indeed. Right from the star t we were blessed with very talented and determined assistant directors – Scott, Noah and Harry could not have given more in terms of ideas and commitment. There is one person above all to whom we would like to pay tribute. This was to have been Miss Hunter’s debut as a director and what a debut it would have been. We were all thrilled by her constant flow of brilliant ideas, the way she made them become reality, how she instantly stepped into the breach when we didn’t have a choreographer and how she demanded – in her own warm, inspirational way – the very highest of standards. It was not to be – but for all of us involved in the production there will always be a little place in our hear ts for Grangewood School for ‘Gels’. Honesta quam magna! ETW

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COLLYER Thursday 19th March, 6pm HALL Friday 20th March, 7pm THEATRE ADULTS £ 16 / STUDENTS £ 10 WWW.KCS.ORG.UK/BOXOFFICE | TEL: 0208 255 5444 | BOXOFFICE@KCS.ORG.UK This amateur production of “Daisy Pulls It Off” is presented by special arrangement with SAMUEL FRENCH LTD a Concord Theatricals Company.

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49 boys took par t in LAMDA in October. Second and Third Form boys were entered for grades One and Two Speaking Verse and Prose examinations. Lower and Upper Remove boys were entered for grades Three and Four Acting examinations. 32 boys received distinctions and seventeen boys received merits.

On Thursday 25 June, thir teen Upper Remove boys took par t in The â€˜vir tualâ€™ Lindon Speaking Cup. The boys prepared wonderful speeches and delivered them through Teams with such confidence and maturity. It was fantastic that we were able to go ahead with this annual competition. We were very lucky to have Mr Watkins as adjudicator, delivering words of wisdom and sound advice to all the speakers. Thank you to all the boys involved and of course to Mr Watkins for adjudicating. Well done to all the boys, but in par ticular congratulations go to Yusuf Fazlanie for winning The Lindon Speaking Cup final, Reis Fernandes for coming second and Jai Sarkar and Joven Sekhon for coming joint third. Thank you to you all. SVH

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ART AN D DE S IGN ENGINEERING EXHIBITION: TRANSFORM The annual Ar t and DE exhibition had all the spectacle of previous years – a giant ‘ice ‘sculpture in the foyer, life-sized ar ticulated robots lining the stairways, and installation pieces on the top floor of the Reeve school: a magical forest to one side and

Gormley-style figures suspended in space on the other. What made this year extra special, however, was that the whole afternoon was set aside for viewing the show enabling every Form to come over and visit the exhibition with their teachers.

There were many highlights; relief sculptures inspired by Frank Stella; cauldrons of all sizes for the ingredients of magical spells; a huge, dark, dramatic seascape by boys in the Lower Remove; Alice Through the Looking Glass mirror scenes; metallic insects;

Japanese masks; Tudor cockentrice fit for a banquet; moisture detectors; balancing toys; and a sweet shop featuring ceramic â€˜sugar miceâ€™. All of this and more was enjoyed by all... along with the customary mince pies! LSG

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Nicholas Ellinghorst TDM

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Spencer Stanley 1M

Thomas Tijerina 1C

John Trickett 1BP

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Yannis Paschopoulos 1H

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ART C LU B We have had a fantastic year in the Junior School Ar t Club. Some of the activities we have under taken this year include making delicate paper fish and origami birds, drawing optical illusions, working collaboratively to produce pictures of favourite spor ts teams, and building imaginative model islands. In December, the boys got into the Christmas spirit by making baubles from recycled materials, ceramic Daniel Yao 1C

Christmas trees, and printing their own wrapping paper! Unfor tunately, our ambitious island project got cut shor t in the spring term, but this did not stop some boys working on activities from home. Responding to a weekly brief set on Teams, the boys have created some wonderful ar twork, including beautifully made model airplanes (to get to their islands of course!) and a series of vibrant doodle cubes. LSG

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Eroica Symphony; Haydn’s Drum Roll Symphony and Shostakovich’s 9th Symphony – a piece intended to commemorate the Soviet victory over Germany in the Second World War. I am sure all music staff subconsciously connect the arrival of another email in our inbox, a Teams meeting, or a question from a pupil during this period of online learning, as a call to battle; hoping that our teaching via software programs will be equally victorious.

JUNIOR SCHOOL MUSIC D E P A R T M E N T Occasionally, I do a quick tally of events, purely out of interest, to find out the number of musical events that have run during the course of a year. With a significant number of live events held in the summer term having to be abandoned or reworked to suit a vir tual format, we still have had a busy year and a number of select occasions to repor t on.

Speaking of victories, music competitions in the Junior School are keenly attended. These are the Rushmere Young Musician; Priory Young Musician; King’s Piano Competition; and the UR Composition Competition.

The autumn term saw the usual set of concer ts including Rushmere and Priory Soloists’ recitals, larger ensemble concer ts, and an earlier than normal Christmas concer t, which included disguised renditions of Christmas classics skilfully arranged by Mr Andrews. In addition, the Beginner Group Scheme introduced a number of Rushmere pupils to instruments with boys beginning their musical journey on woodwind or brass instruments, overseen by Head of Woodwind and Brass, Mr Bricht; as well as King’s Junior Strings, an initiative by Head of Strings, Mr Smedley. We were for tunate to be able to host two external events, both sold-out within a couple of days. These were a visit from the Drakensburg Boys’ Choir (DBC) and Princeton Footnotes, both bringing something unique to the Concer t Hall – the dynamism, life and choreography of the DBC, and the close harmony and intimate arrangements of popular tunes serenaded by Princeton Footnotes. The only disappointment concerning these two events was knowing that the demand for ticket sales, by far, outweighed what was on offer. At the end of the spring term, boys and staff were plunged into vir tual class music lessons. Lessons were reworked, assignments set, audio and video embedded, software downloaded, PowerPoints presented, and a significant I.T. learning curve endured. The singular ‘ting’ of the Microsoft Teams notification was warning enough to staff and boys that they would be required to jump into action. Parallels between Pavlov’s dog and teaching staff responses can easily be drawn. Thanks to Mr Parker’s ‘perfect pitch’ ability, I am aware that the melodic motif of Outlook’s email notifications, as well as video calls from Microsoft Teams, are both in the key of E flat major. This is the key that many composers have used to represent heroic themes; Beethoven’s

The boys’ music education is at the forefront of the music depar tment’s mind, regardless of ability. A knowledge, understanding and appreciation of music are what we aim for the boys to achieve. However, it cannot be denied that we have had a bumper crop of exceptionally talented musicians this year. Congratulations go to the following boys who were awarded Music 13+ Scholarships and Exhibitions: 13+ Scholarships are awarded to Reis Fernandes, Ryan Green, William James, and Desmond Zee; and 13+ Music Exhibitions to Bryan Lai and Vikram Tandon. RW

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There are several units of work in which boys in Rushmere and Priory are taught composition using software programs, how to get to grips with harmony, standard harmonic progressions, the composition of melodic lines, bass lines and rhythmic accompaniment. These compositions do not make use of sound samples but rather the selection and composition of each individual note. Although the Upper Remove Composition Competition is only for boys in UR, boys from Third Form and Lower Remove also produce some remarkable work, notably, work by Nikolas Andrijanovs and Scott Hawkings. The results for the Upper Remove Composition Competition 2020 are: Ethan Lim – winner ; Isaac Epstein – first runner-up, and Maxime Fery – second runner-up.

RU S H M E R E YO U N G M U S I C I A N Rushmere Young Musician was surely the highlight of the musical year for our younger students. After three gruelling weeks of rounds and auditions and 200+ performances, a shor t-list was produced of 16 instrumentalists and vocalists that would prove an enormous challenge for our external judge – Grammy and Tony nominated percussionist, Mr Matthew Raymond – to adjudicate. On the afternoon of Monday 3 February, Concer t Hall was packed to capacity with the Junior School and our wonderful young musicians. It was a splendid concer t, and I was most moved by the incredible display of talent on show. My sincere thanks go to all boys in Rushmere, who simply put in an enormous effor t during the rounds of additions, and to the shor tlisted pupils who performed at the final. I am also indebted to our judge who did a superb job in his adjudication. The winner of the Rushmere Young Musician 2020 was Alfred Soulier from 1BP, with his astounding rendition of Beethoven’s ‘Für Elise’ on the piano.

RU S H M E R E YO U N G M U S I C I A N C O M P E T I T I O N 2 0 2 0 R E S U LT S Alfred Soulier Winner Piano Max Lin First Runner Up Piano Natan Sarkar Second Runner Up Violin Nathan Han Commended Saxophone Nicholas Ellinghorst Commended Voice Alp Kucukyildiz Commended Piano Sean Malus Commended Piano Sunny Wu Commended Piano Casper Zee Commended Cello Sebastian Arney Finalist Drums Daniel John Finalist Voice and Piano James Lazell Finalist Clarinet Leo Ogungbemi Finalist Violin and Voice Spencer Stanley Finalist Piano Vidhan Vedhara Finalist Drum

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P R I O RY YO U N G M U S I C I A N The Priory Young Musician competition is held at the end of the autumn term after two weeks of auditions. The 80, or so, contestants are auditioned by two members of staff, including the Head of Instrument. Much discussion follows in which the entries are then whittled down to the final list below. This year our adjudicator was the enter taining and thoroughly engaging Mr Bjorn Bantock, Head of Strings at Bedford School, and conductor at The National Schools Symphony Orchestra. Music is appreciated collectively but is judged subjectively, and it is a satisfying education to listen to an adjudicator and be given insight into why they might appreciate a performance, as much as you do, but for different reasons. I do think that it goes without saying that the boys’ performances were outstanding, not only their performances, but their presentation, manner, and maturity too. There are no awards given for what are ultimately, the real prizes – resilience, dedication, and hard graft. But for tunately the value of these characteristics, which is wor th immeasurably more than the Winner’s Cup and Amazon gift vouchers, is both bestowed on the list of names to the right and the boys who did not make the finals of the competition. So, congratulations to all.

Justin Zhang Winner Desmond Zee Runner up Ryan Green Second runner up William James Finalist Highly Commended Reis Fernandes Highly Commended Pennley Fujiwara Highly Commended William James Highly Commended Ryan Green Highly Commended Arvin Kinigama Highly Commended Bryan Lai Highly Commended Milo Lennon Highly Commended George Macklin Highly Commended Rui Nabeshima Highly Commended Edward Pedropillai Highly Commended Winston Qiu Highly Commended Jai Sarkar Highly Commended Ethan Yan Highly Commended Alfie Edmondson Finalist Isaac Epstein Finalist Reis Fernandes Finalist Bryan Lai Finalist Vikram Tandon Finalist Ethan Yan Finalist Desmond Zee Finalist

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CHORALE Chorale has had a fantastic year, with membership swelling to an incredible 27 strong. Some par ticular highlights of the year were performing Vivaldi’s ‘Gloria’ at our Spring Term Service which was held at Sacred Hear t Church. If I were to ask any one of the boys in Chorale which was their favourite piece this year, I would expect a great number to say ‘Winter Carol’ by the talented Fiona Lander. It is fair to say that the boys worked tirelessly on this challenging four-par t piece and were rewarded through a truly fabulous performance of it at the annual Christmas fair.

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MASTERCL ASS WITH DAV I D OW E N N O R R I S AN D CONC E RT FOR A DVA N C E D P I A N I S T S Fifteen Junior and Senior School pianists were treated to a remarkable masterclass from David Owen Norris on Sunday 6 October in our concer t hall. This was for our advanced pianists (of grade 8 standard and above) and a wide variety of music was performed from Beethoven Sonatas to Poulenc Improvisations, Chopin Nocturnes to Bach Toccatas, Debussy and Rachmaninov Preludes to Rachmaninov’s monumental Rhapsody on a Theme by Paganini, Op 43. Mr Norris’ encyclopaedic knowledge of the piano reper toire and in par ticular, of older pianos and their workings, as well as conventions and performing styles of pianists in the past was utterly illuminating. His engaging and warm style of presentation put everyone at ease and excellent progress was made as pupils gladly went along with the ‘let’s try this’ moments in his approach.

JCS have had an enjoyable year, despite their performance calendar being cut shor t. They have sung at several end-of-term concer ts, school services, for The Children’s Trust London Schools’ Concer t 2020 at St John’s Smith Square, as well as carols at The Ritz Hotel.

Singing carols at The Ritz Hotel was a highlight of the year. The boys were well received, ushered into a reception room, treated with plated sandwiches and juice before singing for 45 minutes at the steps of Palm Cour t. I am not sure there is a more delightful way to open the Christmas season. An additional highlight was meeting Mr Ian Gomes, resident pianist at the Ritz for the past 24 years, and an impromptu performance given by Reis Fernandes on the Blüthner baby grand.

His theory that audiences wanted just two things – to be surprised, or to be satisfied – was a fitting depar ture point for his engrossing teaching style. Our pupils cer tainly responded with interest and sincerity to his raft of helpful, sometimes experimental suggestions. One boy was even asked to consider writing a shor t cadenza to be included towards the end of the third movement of Beethoven’s Pathetique Sonata, Op 13. It really was a day to cherish. On Tuesday 5 November, at 6.00pm the pianists involved in this masterclass performed a recital of their pieces in our concer t hall. It was most pleasing to hear how each of the performers had matured in their interpretations; each also gave informed, interesting introductions to their pieces. The concer t was much enjoyed by the enthusiastic audience.   Very well done to all of our advanced pianists!

JUNIOR SCHOOL VOICE A N D P I A N O R E C I TA L On Wednesday 4 March, 20 boys from the Junior School performed in our annual Voice and Piano Recital in the concer t hall.   There was a delightful selection of solo songs by Schuber t, Vaughan Williams, Buchanan, Schram, Jenkyns, Marsh and Schumann. There were also two vocal duets, Offenbach’s famous ‘Barcarolle’ and ‘I waited for the Lord’ by Mendelssohn. The four solo pianists performed some sophisticated music for their young ages – Handel’s ‘Air’ and variations entitled ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’,

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The Children’s Trust Charity, based in Tadwor th, is the UK’s leading charity for children with brain injury. They deliver rehabilitation, education and community services through skilled teams who work with children and young people, and their families. Some pupils in JCS were for tunate to be invited to visit the site and sit in with the residents for some of their lessons. They were also given a tour of the site and grounds. It goes without saying that the boys represented the school well and presented themselves as interested and compassionate.

Bach’s ‘Prelude’ and ‘Fugue in B flat major’ from WTC Book 1, Chopin’s ‘Nocturne in E, Op 62 No 2’ and Bridge’s ‘The Prince’ from A Fair y Tale H128 3. We also heard five delightful piano duets – ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ by Bach (arranged by Duck), ‘Gottes Zeit ist der allerbeste Zeit’ by Bach (arranged by Kur tag), ‘Chanson de Matin’ by Elgar (arranged by Cornick), ‘Silent Woods, Op 68 No 5’ by Dvorak and the funfilled, energetic ‘Eine Kleine Yiddishe Nachtmusik’ by Gorb (arranged by Appleby), which ended the concer t.   This was a most civilised and enjoyable evening with all boys performing with great care and commitment. They each introduced their pieces insightfully, which added immeasurably to the enjoyment of this reper toire. Bravo to all involved!

included Bridge’s ‘The Prince’ from A Fair y Tale H128 and Rachmaninov’s finger-breaking transcription of Kreisler’s ‘Liebesleid’. Four duet groups from the Junior School also performed with great rappor t and sensitivity. We heard Bach’s ‘Jesu, Joy of Man’s Desiring’ and Gottes ‘Zeit ist der allerbeste Zeit’ (arranged by Duck and Kur tag, respectively), Elgar’s ‘Chanson de Matin’ (arranged by Cornick), Dvorak’s ‘Silent Woods, Op 68 No 5’ and Gorb’s ‘Eine Kleine Yiddishe Nachtmusik’ (arranged by Appleby).   Prof. Thwaites’ advice was wonderfully practical and appealingly no-nonsense in its delivery. At the same time he managed to be encouraging to every pupil and his prolific and impressive demonstrations were a wonder. All of the pianists should be congratulated for their excellent performances and their willingness to follow Prof. Thwaites’ many new ideas. Their piano teachers can be justifiably proud of their pupils too.   It was a delightful event and all involved should be congratulated for making it so!

KING’S PIANO COMPETITION 2020

M A S T E RC L A S S W I T H P R O F. J O H N T H WA I T E S Prof. John Thwaites, Head of Keyboard at Birmingham Conservatoire gave a wonderful piano masterclass at King’s on the afternoon and evening of Wednesday 26 February. Seventeen pianists from both junior and senior schools took par t in this inspiring event in our concer t hall.   Solo works performed were Handel’s ‘The Harmonious Blacksmith’ variations, two Preludes and Fugues by Bach, Sonatas by Mozar t and Beethoven, including his ‘Waldstein’ Sonata. From the romantic period we heard Chopin’s ‘Mazurka in A minor’, ‘Op 17 No 4’ and ‘Nocturne in E major, Op 62 No 2’, as well as Sibelius’ ‘Joueur de harpe’ and a Glazunov Miniature. Works from the 20th century

In late May, 122 pianists from Transition to Upper Sixth, 83 of which were from the Junior School, submitted entries for a rather different version of our annual piano competition. Each of them recorded a video performance on their own pianos in their own living rooms, music rooms, dining rooms, basements and even in a few kitchens. Each also included a spoken introduction to their performance and 47 pianists (29 juniors) were chosen to par ticipate in the finals.    The finals took place in early June and the prizes were announced on 5th June. The Junior categories were adjudicated by Ryan Weber (Head of Junior School Music), Ian Parker (Teacher of Junior School Music) and Mark Nixon (Head of Keyboard). The standard here was most impressive, with many Lower and Upper Remove pupils performing challenging works that one might expect to hear in a Sixth Form category. The new Rushmere category this year proved to be a most wor thwhile addition, with delightful introductions and characterful playing.    It is a testament to the will-power and determination of all of these pupils that they were able to work online with their piano teachers to reach such a superb standard for this year’s competition. The whole school had access to all of the finalists’ videos and these performances were viewed over 1,800 times.   Thank you to all of these fantastic young pianists who have brought the joy of music to the whole school community in the lockdown. Bravo to all involved!

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and played for different forms throughout the day. In February we had one of our talented Junior School ensembles go through to the semi-finals of the ProCorda Chamber Music Festival: Ethan Bennett, Ethan Yan and Vikram Tandon did the school proud by playing a consummate rendition of Faure’s ‘Pavane’.

Overall Winner in the Junior and Lower Schools (across all junior categories) and the KPC Junior Cup Ethan Yan First Prize The Prince (No 4 from LRG A Fair y Tale), by Bridge Lower and Upper Removes, Years 7 and 8 Category Ethan Yan First Prize The Prince (No 4 from LRG A Fair y Tale), by Bridge Desmond Zee Second Prize Allegro de Concierto, URP Op 46, by Granados Reis Fernandes Second Prize Sonata in A major, Op 2 URCM No 2, 1st movement by Beethoven Justin Zhang Commended Prelude in C sharp minor, URCM Op 3 No 2 by  Rachmaninov Second and Third Forms Category Danyal Sayed First Prize Andante in A major by 2B Haydn and Rektor by Latoslawski Alastair van der Meer Second Prize The Reef, by Carroll and 3MH (shared) the Theme from Peter and the Wolf, by Prokofiev Harry Jones  Second Prize Sonatina in A minor, 2H (shared) by Benda

In March we were for tunate to, once again, have members of the Academy of St Mar tin in the Fields coaching our wind ensembles and then performing in our Spring Concer t. Chamber music did not stop during lockdown and we now have three excellent video recordings available to show how hard the boys have been working whilst at home.

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Peter-Gabriel Adjetey First Prize Andante in A major, URHM  by Haydn Freddie Courtney   Second Prize Andante in A major, URB by Haydn Arthur Irvine Commended Shadows, by Carroll  2J Samvrit Subin Commended Allegro grazioso, by Gurlitt 2B Rushmere Category Alfred Soulier First Prize Nocturne in C sharp minor, 1BP Op posth., by Chopin Alp Kucukyildiz    Second Prize Nocturne in C sharp minor, TWL Op posth., by Chopin Nicholas Ellinghorst Commended Bagatelle in C, by TDM Beethoven  Rehan Basu Commended Ja-Da by Bob Carleton arr. TWL Nikki Iles and Arabesque, by Burgmuller

Whatever happens in October, rest assured that the wind and brass depar tment will carry on working to produce the excellent performances you have all got used to! Mr Nicolas Bricht, Head of Woodwind and Brass

Best Spoken Introductions (across all junior categories) - shared James Geijtenbeek 2R Vikram Tandon URHM

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WOODWIND AND BR ASS Despite the lockdown, this has been a very busy year for the Woodwind and Brass depar tment at King’s. In November we had the Magnard Ensemble, a world-class wind quintet, visit King’s for a day. They worked alongside Junior School chamber ensembles

KING’S JUNIOR SCHOOL STRINGS In a year like no other, our string players at King’s have still benefited from a wide range of oppor tunities and experiences both pre-lockdown and during the school closure. Our new beginner string scheme, King’s Junior Strings, saw 18 Rushmere pupils learn the beginnings of playing a string instrument. After spending the first term learning to hold the instruments and find the fundamentals of sound production (for any parents who might under-estimate the challenge of this, please try this yourselves!), the pupils learnt the basics of fingerings on the D and A strings. They were all doing so well, and then lockdown hit us! This has made continuing

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work efficiently challenging and although video tutorials have been made to help progress to continue, this can never substitute for live interactive and face-to-face teaching. Despite the challenges of the summer term, I am really pleased with the progress made earlier in the year and the sense of teamwork which the pupils began to discover throughout the process. I hope that as many of them as possible will go on to receive individual lessons next year and to continue their musical journey at King’s. Elsewhere, our chamber groups benefited from coaching oppor tunities from the Solem Quar tet in our Chamber Music Day in February prior to par ticipating in the ProCorda Chamber Music Festival where some of our groups reached the semi-final stage. Additionally, we enjoyed a project with the Academy of St Mar tin in the Fields which consisted of multiple visits from members of the orchestra working with our chamber ensembles. Being able to learn from first-class performers is a huge inspiration for all pupils and we are delighted to be able to offer these oppor tunities to our students. Many of our VMTs have repor ted how well Junior School pupils, in par ticular, have adapted to online music lessons whilst school has been closed. While we would never choose to offer these lessons over face-to-face lessons, we have all been delighted with the initiative and responsiveness shown by many pupils throughout the summer term. For many, music-making has become a sanctuary during the lockdown period and has formed a really impor tant outlet for creativity and wellbeing. It is also notable that the excellent routines that many pupils have developed have really benefited their rate of progress. I hope that pupils will be able to continue to build similar amounts of practice into their daily and weekly routines once more ‘normal’ life begins to resume.

Some pieces were slow and beautiful, and some were fast and exciting. There were four groups: Creative, Beginner, Intermediate and Advanced. I was par t of the Intermediate section. In some of the other pieces, we were invited to be creative and interpretive. I loved working with the Benedetti Foundation – all that hard work was wor th it when you see your own face in the final performance!’ Whilst Ryan Green in Upper Remove repor ted: ‘For the past three weeks, I have been par ticipating in the Benedetti Foundation Vir tual Sessions: Advanced String Orchestra. There were weekly energetic Zoom sessions and daily videos to learn from. With over 5,000 applicants and par ticipants from 66 different countries, all sending in recordings from the comfor t of their homes, some of us were luckily selected to play in a collective finale video. My conclusion would be that regardless of whether there’s a pandemic or not, we can still make music “together”.’ Bravo to all who took par t and made the most of this fabulous oppor tunity and to all of our string players for all of their hard work and progress over the course of the year. Mr Tim Smedley, Head of Strings

During the lockdown, I was delighted to see some pupils par ticipated in online music projects, especially the Vir tual Sessions offered by the Benedetti Foundation – the educational foundation founded by international violin soloist, Nicola Benedetti. Along with 7,000 string players from all around the world, several Junior School pupils par ticipated in this and I was really pleased that some of our pupils’ performances were selected for the final performance which was shown at the end of the half-term holiday. Laurie Gawley in First Form was chosen for the final performance and says: ‘The Benedetti Foundation was fun, inspiring, unique and for all ages. There were lots of things on every day to keep us enter tained as well as teaching us. We had sessions on lots of different facets of being a musician including how to warm up, how to practise effectively, how the creative process works, how to manage performance anxiety, and how to improvise.

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On a fine but chilly afternoon, the chamber choir depar ted for our closest cathedral. Within half an hour of leaving King’s, we were heading down to the song school in Guildford Cathedral’s crypt for a rehearsal. As well as rehearsing for Evensong, the choir also continued their learning of Mozar t’s ‘Requiem’ which they performined after half-term.

During the break, the cakes were as popular as ever and gave the boys the necessary boost. The last time the choir had sung in the Cathedral was for a gala Christmas concer t two years ago. Since then, the Cathedral has been completely renovated internally and the acoustical results are rather spectacular. After tea it was time for the rehearsal with the organ. The boys par ticularly enjoyed singing Parry’s ‘I was Glad’ and hearing their top B flats echoing round the vast stone walls.

Having rehearsed all par ts of the service including the processions, the boys had just a few moments to refocus before Evensong.

Several parents had made the trip down the A3 to be par t of the congregation. The boys sang musically and with confidence and maintained their concentration throughout the long psalm, whilst ‘Noble in B minor’ and the Parry anthem were both sung superbly. DGP

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CHAMBER CHOIR TOUR TO IREL AND The first morning of the October half-term break was an early star t for 18 Junior School (and 27 Senior School) chamber choir boys and five staff: Mr Phillips, Mr Hatch, Mr Ford, Mrs Blight and Mrs Phillips. They had a concer t to give that very evening, so missing the flight was not an option. The boys were all excited and were hardly aware that traffic built up on the M4. We were saved by being able to use the bus lane; otherwise we’d have been delayed

by an hour, making for a much more stressful airpor t experience. As it was, we had plenty of time to check-in. After touching down at Belfast City Airpor t, we made the shor t transfer to the excellent Stormont Hotel which was to be our base for the first four days. We were welcomed by the manager and the CEO of Hastings Hotels (who is married to Mrs Phillips’s cousin and who had been instrumental in connecting us up in several concer t venues). They both made us feel very welcome. Lunch was followed by a prompt depar ture for Por taferry where we were to perform as par t of the Por tico of Ar ts festival. The Presbyterian Church proved an unusual, though most effective venue for all the choir’s reper toire. A demanding two-hour rehearsal soon meant the choir was ready for this first highprofile concer t. The organisers had kindly provided supper and interval refreshments and these were most appreciated. The boys sang superbly at this first concer t.

After breakfast and a vocal warm-up on the Sunday morning we took a walk up to Stormont Castle, visiting a play park for the juniors on the way, which proved so popular that we made a return trip there the next day. Later in the morning we headed to Armagh with its two St Patrick’s Cathedrals. We

were singing in the Church of Ireland cathedral and, following lunch on Sunday, we met in the Cathedral to rehearse for Evensong. A large congregation filled the nave for the service which was then followed by a shor t choir recital. Again, the hospitality we received was excellent with refreshments for all the choir provided by the Cathedral music depar tment. We then had supper in a local hotel before returning to Belfast.

A clear blue sky welcomed us the next morning and we depar ted for Londonderry with some helpful commentary from Mr Hatch on Irish politics, history and geography. We were giving a joint concer t with St Columb’s Cathedral choir and had a brief rehearsal both before and after lunch and a fascinating walking tour around the city walls with our enter taining and informative guide, Garvin. The Cathedral choir sang five pieces before we took over with the rest of the programme. Again, we were hosted at a reception following the concer t before the long drive back to the hotel.

All the boys were excited about the next day’s visit to Titanic Belfast. Before we left the hotel we performed a flash-mob performance of ‘The gift to Be Simple’ which proved popular with guests and staff. At Titanic, we had been granted special permission to perform in the atrium following our tour. A large crowd gathered and the boys sang two a capella numbers with confidence and energy. After having seen around both the main exhibition, the slipway and SS Nomadic it was time to move on to Willowfield Church in East Belfast. On the Catholic and Protestant border, this is a par ticularly poor parish and we had raised £400 for their community outreach projects at our pre-tour concer t. In many

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ways this concer t was the greatest challenge, singing in a very dry acoustic, but the choir worked well to project their sound and give clarity to their diction. The church kindly hosted us for supper and the concer t managed to raise more needed funds for their projects both in East Belfast and in Cambodia.

The final full day, Thursday, was the most actionpacked and began with a fascinating visit to Dublin Zoo. We then met at St Patrick’s Cathedral to give a lunchtime recital and our final performance. Once again the choir was on fine form and showed remarkable stamina to the end after six full days of singing. The concer t ended with an energetic and compelling rendition of Bob Chilcott’s lively arrangement of ‘Ev’ry time I feel the Spirit’. After lunch, the boys enjoyed a very wet trip on Viking Splash. Then, following supper, was the customary and popular quiz night and a highly enter taining, well-executed and well-rehearsed presentation from the Upper Sixth. I was par ticularly impressed with the maturity of the Upper Removes who led the trip so well vocally and were such a positive influence. I am especially grateful to the staff, too, who were all so suppor tive. DGP

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That was the final day based in Nor thern Ireland and we were all sorry to say farewell to the exceptional hotel we had stayed in. On the Wednesday morning we headed south to the Republic. After a brief lunch and check-in to our city centre hotel, we headed to St Bar tholomew’s Church. This ornate church with a superb organ was in a quiet residential par t of the city and only a few minutes’ walk away was Roly’s Bistro, which turned out to be everyone’s favourite eatery of the tour. The concer t was another musical triumph.

C H O I R AWA R D S Bronze, silver and gold Seven chamber choir boys went to Croydon Minster to receive their medals for their excellent performance in Royal School of Church Music examinations held earlier in the year. Alexander Golder, Arvin Kinigama, Arvind Benedict and Deyan Patel were there to collect their Dean’s awards (bronze), whilst Ivo Monaghan, Nicholas Steinmeyer and William James had gained Bishop’s awards (silver). Max Rivaldi was unable to be there for the occasion but he had also successfully passed

a handful of senior school boys in the past 20 years. The presentation formed par t of Evensong, which was conducted by Ronny Krippner, former organist and teacher at King’s. The boys joined together with the Minster choir to sing in the service and were exemplary ambassadors in their singing and discipline. Many congratulations all round. DGP

his Bishop’s award. In a first, William was also presented with his gold award, for outstanding choral achievement, which he had sat in the same session and secured with honours. This is a fantastic success and a goal which has only been achieved by

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W: 16 L: 18 D: 0

OPPOSITION

U13A U13B U13C U13D

St Paul’s Juniors

0 – 25

20 – 45

15 – 35

10 – 40

Whitgift

0 – 50

40 – 45

25 – 30

60 – 5

Dulwich College

20 – 40

35 – 40

20 – 40

35 – 20

St George’s College Juniors

5 – 35

15 – 35

N/A

20 – 10

15 – 5

Emmanuel

25 – 10

50 – 5

25 – 20

Grey Court

10 – 25

30 – 5

N/A

St James’ Boys

0 – 30

50 – 15

60 – 5

N/A

Rutlish

50 – 15

45 – 25

N/A

Wimbledon College

15 – 30

60 – 5

30 – 20

35 – 15

5–0

15 – 25

15 – 45

5 – 45

Tiffin

Trinity

U13A

U13B

U13C

U13D

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What a term of rugby the first term was! Plenty of fixtures to challenge the year group, rugby festivals to enhance the boys playing experience against new schools and some very wet and windy weather to test almost anyone’s handling skills!

Oratory Prep and Highfield in the process. This was a real confidence boost for the boys who trained so hard throughout the course of the season.

First up was St Paul’s, a school well-known for producing strong rugby sides. Unfor tunately, King’s were unable to salvage any victories but the quality of rugby on the day was of a good standard. The following week was an even harder challenge with Whitgift becoming a new fixture for KCJS. The U13As were faced with some tough situations, finding themselves on the back foot a number of times. While the result was a bitter pill to swallow, they never backed down and stayed positive to the end. The U13B and C team came shor t by a single try; something to be extremely proud of. The main highlight was the U13D team coached by Mr Bor ton who comfor tably defeated their oposition with a 60–5 win. A truly remarkable performance and something which provided plenty of confidence for the rest of the season.

The season finale took place when Trinity travelled from Croydon to take on the U13ABCD teams. It was a tough match up with Trinity boasting squads of big, strong, physical athletes. It was Trinity’s day in the U13BCD matches, however a well-fought match on the A team pitch resulted in the U13As winning by one try to nil, leaving the boys over the moon with the performance they had put in. Another term of rugby is over ; well done to all the boys who gave their all in training and fixtures. A big thank you to all the coaches for their ongoing effor ts, providing the boys with such memorable rugby experiences. DAC

The U13A and B teams star ted really well against St George’s, scoring first and setting the tone for what were two physical matches. However, they were unable to keep the opposition out, resulting in two unfor tunate losses. Tiffin U13C and D came to Kingsway, only to be well beaten by our U13 C and D teams. Mr Brady was very pleased with the boys’ performances. Deservedly so, a whole year group win finally came for the U13ABC teams as they travelled to Emmanuel school. The boys were delighted to see all their hard work from training pay off. Next up, the U13As played Grey Cour t, losing narrowly despite playing an excellent first half of rugby. St James Independent School taught the boys a few defensive lessons, showing just how tough rugby can be if a team defends as individuals as opposed to pressing as a unit. This loss appeared to come at the perfect time as the U13As took on Rutlish and recorded a memorable win 20–15. The U13Bs were comfor table winners with Mr Rogers praising the boys’ skill levels and effor ts on the field. The U13As attended the Surrey Rugby Festival and the Wellington College Rugby Festival. Both days provided helpful learning experiences for the boys as they took three wins from six at the Surrey Rugby Festival. The Wellington College Festival provided similar stats as they won two from four, beating

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Dulwich College were next on the fixture list. Again, Dulwich were strong throughout the age group, beating King’s U13As 40–20, whilst the U13B and C teams again came close but just ran out of steam towards the end. However, it was Mr Bor ton’s U13Ds again who found a win away from home, 35–20.

Local rivals Wimbledon College visited Kingsway on a cold, wet Saturday morning. These were excellent matches with the U13As falling just shor t, but the U13BCD teams recorded well-deserved wins, leaving both coaches and parents immensely proud.

R U G B Y: U12

W: 16 L: 9 D: 2

O P P O S I T I O N U12A U12B U12C U12D St Paul’s Juniors

35 – 0

15 – 15

15 – 40

20 – 25

Dulwich College

50 – 0

15 – 10

25 – 55

15 – 50

St George’s College

30 – 5

N/A

0 – 35

N/A

Trinity College

35 – 5

15 – 25

3 – 10

45 – 15

St Benedict’s Juniors

45 – 15

30 – 35

N/A

25 – 15

50 – 15

N/A

Rutlish

50 – 0

N/A

45 – 5

N/A

St James’ Boys

50 – 0

N/A

55 – 10

Wimbledon College

25 – 0

10 – 25

15 – 15

15 – 45

Wilson’s

U12A

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This group of boys showed an unbelievable attitude and commitment to the rugby programme and as you can see from the results, all of that effor t produced some fantastic performances. I remember the look on their faces when we told the boys that it was their last rugby session of the term – a combination of disappointment and almost anger! The entire year group was more than happy to work on their catching and passing skills but they came alive when it came to the contact components of the spor t. Their bravery in the tackle across all four teams was commendable, and their ability to disrupt the opposition attack with uncompromising defensive displays was simply superb.

Post half-term, the wins began to rain in from all sides and there was a real rugby club ethos being created amongst the teams. In one of the most comprehensive afternoons of rugby that Kingsway is likely to see, St James’ Boys was shown little mercy with all three sides scoring tries from all par ts of the field. The final block against local rivals, Wimbledon College, did not fail to disappoint and again the A team were excited to play some strong opposition. B, C, and D were all involved in close encounters, and Mr Treneman was delighted with the 15–15 draw in the C team fixture, but again it was the As who impressed with an all-round display to cap off a season to remember. RPM

The St Paul’s block had become, in recent years, a very challenging set of fixtures for us, so it was fantastic to get a win at A team level, and a hardfought draw in the B team match. Again, the As and Bs performed admirably against Dulwich, and whilst the C and D results might suggest a tough star t to the term for these two squads, Mr Kelly and Mr Yates were mightily impressed with the effor t and subsequent improvements that were being made. The A team continued their marvellous form on the St George’s Saturday, and in 16 years of teaching rugby, I had not seen that kind of power in the tackle at this age before.

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We were very much looking forward to the Trinity block as historically they have always put out strong sides, and their A team in par ticular had produced some impressive victories against strong opposition. Our A team produced probably their best first half performance of the year to put the game out of sight by half-time. The Bs found themselves in another belting tussle, and that would be the theme of their season. It was great to see later in the season, some of those boys becoming pivotal players in what was a dominant A team. Victories at C and D team level were just reward for outstanding effor t that had been shown in games sessions.

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R U G B Y: U 11 OPPOSITION

W: 6 L: 14 D: 4

U11A U11B U11C U11D U11E U11F U11G

Newland House

20 – 15

N/A

35 – 45

N/A

30 – 30

N/A

15 – 50

Cranmore

10 – 20

5 – 15

N/A

15 – 30

N/A

10 – 20

N/A

King’s House

5 – 20

10 – 20

N/A

25 – 15

N/A

20 – 15

N/A

Shrewsbury House

15 – 35

15 – 15

30 – 30

N/A

35 – 40

40 – 25

Donhead

20 – 40

N/A

35 – 35

50 – 40

N/A

Rokeby

20 – 25

25 – 15

N/A

30 – 35

N/A

Ultimately, this was a rather underwhelming season, though not at all due to the commitment, enthusiasm, and performances of the boys, but rather because so much rugby was affected by the terrible weather in February and the subsequent coronavirus outbreak in March. In fact, the boys should be given a huge amount of credit for the way they conducted themselves when plans were rearranged and fixtures cancelled. While they were obviously disappointed, there were no complaints at all and consequently, they all made huge progress in what turned out to be trying circumstances. We should also credit our new spor ts facilities, which very much came into their own this term and provided the space and oppor tunities to develop… Even when the weather was against us! The season began with a very well-balanced set of fixtures against Newland House. A special mention should go to the U11A team who produced an incredible team try with the last play of the game to seal a famous win. From deep in their own 22, the ball was moved through six pairs of hands before the try was exper tly finished in the corner and jubilation ensued.

deserve a special mention here, playing brilliantly in their high scoring extravaganza and running out eventual 40–25 winners. As the rain continued to fall, and the closure of the school and indeed most of the country became an imminent possibility, there was just about time for two final rounds of fixtures against local rivals Donhead and Rokeby. Every game in these two mini block fixtures was incredibly even and hard fought. The fact that in all six fixtures each team scored at least four tries was testament to the progress that the boys had made at the top of the park. Whilst the boys will no doubt be disappointed to have missed out on the Surrey Rugby Festival and House rugby, I am confident that this experience will make us appreciate the oppor tunities we have next year and beyond all the more. TPR

Next up was a trip to Cranmore for the A, B, D and F sides who all took par t in a triangular set of fixtures against the hosts and King’s House School. This afternoon always proves to be a brilliant learning oppor tunity for the boys as playing two different schools in a shor t period of time provides a great challenge. Additionally, from a coaching perspective, there are numerous occasions to offer feedback. Well done to the D and F teams who both recorded victories over King’s House. Shrewsbury House always provides a tough set of fixtures and this was no exception. To come out of these fixtures with a win and two draws was an excellent result, but more than that the performances – in tough conditions on this par ticular afternoon – were fantastic. For the first time it really felt as if a number of the skills that we had worked on in training was being displayed on the pitch: a hugely encouraging sign. The U11G team

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R U G B Y: U10 OPPOSITION Northcote Lodge

W: 14 L: 13 D: 7

U10 A

U10 B

U10 C

U10 D

U10 E

U10 F

U10G

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Cranmore

5 – 30

20 – 35

15 – 60

20 – 20

35 – 20

N/A

St Benedict’s Juniors

20 – 20

N/A

25 – 20

N/A

30 – 40

45 – 20

Rokeby

15 – 20

30 – 20

70 – 25

N/A

75 – 20

55 – 35

Northcote Lodge Donhead

N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A 0 – 45

15 – 20

35 – 35

The first half of term star ted with the U10A team travelling to the Shrewsbury House Festival. This was a great way to star t the term with the boys coming up against a good standard of teams. They defended well, but some rustiness in attack led to a frustrating afternoon. The first block fixture to take place was a tough home fixture against Cranmore. Always a difficult opponent, Cranmore inflicted defeats against our A, B and C teams, but a valiant D team earned a draw and a confident E team came out on top as comfor table winners. Next St Benedict’s A, C, F and G teams arrived at King’s full of confidence after a good run of results for them. However, it proved to be an afternoon that belonged to the King’s boys. The U10A team came away with an excellent draw, scoring a try in the dying seconds. The C team also scored in the dying seconds to take an emphatic victory! The F team suffered a frustrating loss but showed character until the end and the Gs won comfor tably. Rokeby School also arrived at King’s in good form and brimming with confidence. Again, the U10 age group proved tough to beat with fine performances all round. The U10A team suffered an agonising last-minute loss despite a valiant display. The rest of the teams – B, C, F and G – had a fine afternoon, but the heroes of the day were the C and F teams,

55 – 35

55 – 45

55 – 25

both posting scores of 70 and 75 points apiece! Next, the U10A team travelled away to the Cumnor House Festival. This proved to be a hard day with the boys coming up against some tough opposition. The boys played excellently and represented the school well. Two great victories came against City of London Freemens school and Hawthorns school. But the boys also suffered three losses and ground out two wor thy draws. The final block fixture of the term was a tough afternoon hosting Donhead. Due to the long break of cancelled fixtures, the U10A team were not able to capitalise on their previous good momentum and finished second best at the final whistle against a very strong Donhead A team. Despite the result, both coaches were impressed with the character, defensive effor t and togetherness shown by the King’s A team. The B team experienced a tight loss, again playing valiantly and showing some real grit and determination in their tries. The C team, keeping up with this age group’s reputation as being tough to beat, ground out a 35–35 draw to finish off a fine term of rugby. The E, F and G teams were the heroes of the day once more, all coming out on top with fine victories. Overall, all teams displayed promising levels of progression based on the skills we had been focusing on in training. Obviously, it was disappointing to have so many fixtures cancelled. Never theless, the coaches were very happy with the progression made by each of the teams. Though a challenging term results-wise for the U10A team, the potential in the team is clear and it will be exciting to see how far they can go with the team spirit they have built up to this point. The defensive quality is clear to see across the board and the attacking skills have progressed excellently also. Overall, it has been a pleasure to watch and coach the boys this term thanks to their hard work and commitment. Onwards and upwards! SCSG

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The U10 age group enjoyed a positive term of rugby, with some excellent results against tough teams alongside some frustrating results against others. One thing evident throughout this age group is the team spirit and good manner with which the boys represent the school. Some of the key focuses for this age group have been to continue to work on their contact skills and begin to understand the breakdown. In attack, the focus was on passing the ball out wide and then using the width created to attack effectively. There was progression from boys at all levels. However most pleasing was the defensive improvement that made our teams at this level very hard to beat!

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R U G B Y: U9

W: 14 L: 12 D: 6

O P P O S I T I O N U9A

U9B

U9C

U9D Leopards Lions Pumas Tigers

Cranmore

25 – 50

25 – 55

25 – 25

35 – 40

25 – 30

30 – 30

20 – 15

25 – 15

Rokeby

40 – 40

15 – 25

N/A

45 – 50

N/A

50 – 55

65 – 65

Shrewsbury House

30 – 35

45 – 45

20 – 35

55 – 35

55 – 50

50 – 35

50 – 30

N/A

Harrodian

45 – 20

N/A

30 – 10

N/A

40 – 35

N/A

Donhead

10 – 40

35 – 50

N/A

40 – 20

65 – 55

50 – 40

N/A

55 – 55

King’s House

20 – 40

35 – 35

45 – 15

40 – 50

50 – 50

45 – 20

30 – 25

N/A

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As was expected, the U9 year group experienced a very wor thwhile and enjoyable term of rugby. With the introduction of the live tackle at this age group, there was always plenty of excitement amongst the boys. Whilst plenty of impor tance had been placed on developing the boys’ contact skills, coaches also continued to emphasise just how much hard work needs to go into maintaining good handling skills, spatial awareness and a constant understanding of the tactics within the game. The U9As experienced their first taste of contact rugby at the U9 Shrewsbury House Rugby Festival. Days like this are very valuable for each of the boys. The games are quick, there is plenty of oppor tunity for feedback and you often come up against schools who you would not usually play on the fixture circuit. The boys won two, lost two and drew one, taking plenty away from the experience.

problems that arose over the course of a rugby match. The U9As accomplished each of these feats with aplomb, learning a great deal from the match. Whilst they did not come away with a victory, they cer tainly put in a brave performance, showcasing camaraderie and a strong desire to play for one another. The U9Bs put in a fantastic performance but just fell shor t against their opponents. Fur ther down the age group, the U9D, Leopards, Lions and Pumas produced some fine rugby, winning several games. It was great to see success throughout the year group.

King’s went to Harrodian with the U9As, Cs and Pumas. This was a memorable day for the U9As who achieved their first win of the season, putting Harrodian to the sword with some excellent, fast flowing rugby. Defensively, they were keen to press, apply pressure to the opposition and win the ball back as if their life depended on it. It was a similar story for the U9Cs and Pumas who comfor tably won their matches, leaving all the coaches very pleased with the progress made as we went into half-term. Donhead, a school known to have several strong rugby players who play regular club rugby, were our next opponents. This was always going to be a good challenge for the boys right across the age group, as they had to learn how to deal with pressure and fix

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Finally, King’s House made their way to Wimbledon on a soggy Tuesday morning. Both age groups were of similar ability, as evidenced by the style of rugby on display. The Leopards, Lions and Pumas were keen to challenge their opponents, using their defence effectively, moving the ball with offloads and ‘two passes’ from contact. This resulted in some impressive victories, which the boys should be rightly The year group faced a tough opening set of fixtures, pleased with. The U9B and C teams came away with taking on Cranmore – a school that had been a draw and a win, whilst the U9As were slightly playing rugby since October half term. It was evident unlucky in their game, finishing just shor t of a win. in the U9As that Cranmore were comfor table in the contact zone, as they carried the ball with The season itself produced some excellent moments, confidence, but King’s cer tainly held their own. with plenty of dedication put in by both boys and Towards the middle of the age group, the U9C and staff. There is cer tainly a jump up from U8 to U9 D teams played some excellent rugby, coming away rugby, but the maturity and desire shown by all the with a draw and a narrow loss, whilst the Leopards, boys in the year group made the experience a very Lions, Pumas and Tigers all fought bravely to come positive one. Thank you to the coaches for their away with well-earned wins. effor ts, the parents for their constant suppor t and, of course, to the boys for giving their all throughout Rokeby and Shrewsbury House were next on the the course of the season. DAC fixture list for King’s, producing some thrilling encounters across the year group. The U9As drew at Rokeby and lost by a single try to Shrewsbury House, demonstrating their understanding and progress despite having been playing contact rugby for such a shor t period of time. Across the age group, there were some narrow losses against Rokeby, but again plenty of improvement throughout the matches. Against Shrewsbury House, the U9s, Leopards, Lions and Pumas all came away with wins, showcasing their confidence to attack with flair and defend with bravery and courage.

R U G B Y: U8

W: 17 L: 9 D: 10

OPPOSITION

U8A

U8B

U8C

U8D

Lions Leopards Pumas Tigers

Shrewsbury House

60 – 60

45 – 45

50 – 20

60 – 50

35 – 45

45 – 35

40 – 35

King’s House

50 – 50

60 – 40

45 – 35

40 – 55

65 – 40

N/A

WCPS

50 – 45

35 – 30

40 – 35

50 – 30

50 – 40

75 – 60

45 – 45

40 – 30

140 – 105 45 – 50

65 – 90

50 – 55

40 – 40

45 – 35

30 – 30

N/A

65 – 55

25 – 55

55 – 55

55 – 70

30 – 45

30 – 30

Donhead WCPS

N/A

35 – 45

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It has cer tainly been another enthralling season for the U8s. Many boys were introduced to the fun running game of tag rugby for the first time, and as you can see from the results, they took to it very well indeed. The boys have applied themselves fabulously throughout and this has led to many superb performances. A key focus for this age group has been tactical development, embodying the phrase: ‘The ball moves faster than the man.’ This has provided the boys with fundamental skills, which will serve them well as they progress through the school. They have been free to experiment at all times, and this has brought out the best in them, both with and without the ball. We have cer tainly viewed this season as an oppor tunity to build for the future and are excited by the progress each of the boys has made.

Having worked tirelessly on attack both in training and during Rugby Club, the boys continued their habit of throwing the ball around. They were beginning to string together some great attacking movement to evade defenders, whilst scintillating sidesteps matched with pinpoint spiderman passing saw the boys well-prepared for their next fixture. It was time for the first home game as we hosted King’s House in a fixture that is usually a very closefought contest. So it turned out on this occasion, as the A to C teams ran out with high scoring draws. Mr. Treneman’s Ds and Miss McGinley’s Pumas were impeccable in keeping their 100% win record. One area which was incredibly impressive was the numbers at Rugby Club. The boys took brilliantly to what was, for some, a relatively new spor t. Their skill set was expanding, and it was fabulous to see the boys’ application throughout all sessions. Despite awful conditions on most club nights, the boys kept smiling as they continued to run free in great tag games. The tagging chiefs were out in full force as they learnt to get themselves in more successful positions in defence.

Next the U8s played host to Donhead School, against whom all teams had competitive games. The As produced their performance of the season as they conquered their opponents with an unbelievable display. All games were very well matched and the quality of tag on show was fantastic to watch. Despite the results, all teams showed excellent togetherness to secure some fabulous performances in what was a great morning of rugby. The season was capped off with return fixtures versus Wimbledon Common Prep School. It is always a thoroughly enter taining block as many of the boys relish the chance to compete against their previous school, and it is brilliantly attended by a very suppor tive crowd. The BCD teams rolled up their sleeves and the Academy prepared their paws for one final game. The weather was incredibly kind as it played host to a series of excellent, free-flowing games of tag. Unfor tunately, the weather was not as kind as this on several occasions to come, as we lost out to a number of waterlogged pitches. However, what is clearly evident throughout is how brilliantly the fixtures were attended by parents. I must reiterate that the praise not only for our boys but also for the opposition on all occasions was second to none and I would like to thank the parents for the great role they played this term. The introduction of the Academy has definitely improved our strength in depth, whilst presenting the boys with endless oppor tunities to move up and down. There has been plenty of positives to sum up the rugby term for the U8 age group. All boys have represented the school and worked tremendously hard for their teammates throughout. The brand of rugby produced has been very pleasing. I think I speak for all the staff when I say that they have been an utter pleasure to teach, and we are very proud of their effor ts this term. It is cer tainly a strong basis on which to build, and all boys represented the school fabulously throughout. Thank you for an incredible season and good luck next year. BDJ

The third block fixture saw the U8s play host to Wimbledon Common Prep School. All teams were firing on all cylinders by this point, scoring more tries then ever in some superb, fearless tag rugby. Results suggest another dominant performance, and this is exactly what took place. There were wins a plenty with the boys showing great awareness in linking up

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The boys travelled to take on what is always a strong Shrewsbury House side. Despite only having been introduced to tag for a few weeks, they displayed both great understanding in defence and freedom in attack. There were some superb end-toend draws for the A, B and C teams, as well as stand-out performances from the U8Ds, who clearly knew how to defend. Fur thermore, the ‘Academy’ teams secured three out of four wins as the Lions roared themselves to victory. It was evident from the star t that the boys knew their way to the try line, despite sometimes running sideways…

with teammates to produce great team performances. The Leopards and Tigers were executing their patterns well as they pounced on their opponents in two great victories.

FOOTBALL: U13 OPPOSITION Richard Challoner

W: 9 L: 8 D: 4

U13A U13B U13C U13D U13E U13F C

C N/A N/A N/A

Wilson’s

1 – 2

2 – 2

2 – 5

4 – 0

N/A

Dulwich College

0 – 3

2 – 2

0 – 2

2 – 2

0 – 4

5–6

Latymer Upper

5 – 2

1 – 1

2 – 1

2 – 0

N/A

Sussex House

3 – 0

N/A

6 – 1

N/A

9–1

Rutlish

0 – 1

N/A

St Paul’s Juniors

C C C C C C

Wimbledon College C C C C C C Sutton Grammar Trinity

C C C C C C 0 – 3

5 – 0

4 – 2

In a term that was littered with cancellations and very little oppor tunity to train on grass after the half-term break, the U13 year group made plenty of progress and spirits were kept high. After the spor t change over and a couple of weeks assessing the boys, a main focus for this age group was to increase their tactical understanding. The year group was technically very good but required the tactical understanding to play out from the back, through the thirds and to play with speed and precision in the final third. The boys worked tremendously hard this term to develop their game understanding and become smar t footballers. With the first set of fixtures against Richard Challoner being cancelled, the first match for the A-D teams was against Wilson’s School. All fixtures were highly competitive, but the stand-out performance – a 4–0 win for the U13D team – got their unbeaten term off to a flier. The next block fixture was unfor tunately the only time in the term we managed to have all teams playing at once. This was par t of ‘Super Saturday’ where we had 33 fixtures against Dulwich College throughout the day. A special mention must go to the F team who narrowly lost out in a 11 goal thriller, which Mr Brady described as one of the most tense and exciting games of football he has been a par t of. The third block of the term was an away trip to Latymer Upper. This was a fantastic block for the U13s, with all teams leaving with a positive result. The standout performance came from the A team, who played their best football of the term in a convincing 5–2 win, scoring some fantastic team goals. We then hosted Sussex House in another block of positive fixtures and had emphatic results. The U13C team had their biggest win of the term, thrashing Sussex House 6–1 by playing a par ticular brand of ruthless yet exciting attacking football. In amongst the cancellations, we were able to squeeze in the U13A team fixture against Rutlish, which was

N/A

a game where the eventual result did not reflect the performance. The A team dominated possession throughout the match but were unable to capitalise on this, leaving the door open for Rutlish to score a last-minute winner in devastating fashion. The final set of fixtures was an away trip to Croydon to face Trinity for the A, B and C teams. The B team came out with a clean sheet and a convincing 5–0 win, in what was a fantastic way to finish the term. Unfor tunately, the Belmont Festival was cancelled due to waterlogged pitches but hopefully there will be more tournament football for these boys in the future. To sum up the term, all boys can be very proud of their application and desire to improve in what was a frustrating period for fixtures and training spaces. Performances in training and fixtures improved, and there was definite evidence of tactical understanding and team progress throughout the term. A special mention must go to Mr Brady once again who did an exceptional job with the U13F team, meaning that only four boys opted for rota games. This was down to his inspiring sessions and enthusiasm throughout the term. Team managers and boys alike can be proud of their effor ts – thank you for a brilliant term, and I wish every boy all the very best in their future footballing careers. JJB

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FOOTBALL: U12

W: 9 L: 5 D: 1

OPPOSITION

U12A U12B U12C U12D U12E U12F

Harris Academy

5–1

N/A

4 – 5

N/A

Dulwich College

1 – 0

1 – 2

3 – 1

1 – 1

0 – 5

0 – 12

Sussex House

7 – 2

9 – 0

N/A

9 – 1

N/A

Rutlish High

1 – 2

6 – 1

N/A

Highgate

C C C C C N/A

Wilson’s

C C C C C N/A

Trinity School

2 – 1

3 – 1

N/A

Wimbledon College C C C C C C St Paul’s Juniors

C C C C C C

In our final fixture against Trinity we played an 11-a-side game. As a result, we took the As, Bs and Cs and this was a great way to complete the task of preparing the boys for next year. The As star ted strongly despite having some issues in front of goal, finally managing to get two before half-time. Trinity fought back in the second half but the two-goal cushion proved too much of an ask for them. The Bs had a great game, taking an early lead and running out 3–1 winners, which made the journey back from Croydon all the more pleasurable for Mr McInnes and me.

We star ted the year with 26 boys joining us on the Midland tour against two very tough teams. The boys learnt a lot on tour, seeing how academy teams set up at their age groups. We star ted back at school and it was not long until our first fixtures against Harris Academy. It was a great star t for all of the teams, and a great test of match fitness in the week leading up to ‘Super Saturday’ with Dulwich College. This was a mixed set of results with the As and Cs getting a win on what proved to be a tough day for others. Mr Bor ton’s Ds managed to hang on to a 1–1 draw, in what was an absolute thriller of a game.

To sum up, this was a great term of football for the U12s: their desire to learn has been incredible. They have shown a strong will to score alongside a willingness to defend when required. All teams played a free-flowing style of football based upon our ethos of attacking quickly and with purpose. All played in a variety of positions throughout the season, which is good for their overall development. Thank you for an incredible season and good luck next year. LOS

Next up was Sussex House, where the boys put in one of the best performances of the term, proving far too strong for their opponents. The training at Goals had proved wor thwhile as the boys were playing fast-flowing football and showing just how comfor table they felt on the ball in tight spaces. Rutlish proved a challenging game for the As – a game of many chances but unfor tunately not their day in front of the goal. Rutlish fought back from 1–0 showing great resilience, and turned it around in the last 15 minutes of the game. The Bs had a great result with Mr McInnes coaching them to some excellent performances throughout the term.

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Looking across the results table, the U12s had a great season of football. All boys represented the school and gave everything for the King’s badge. A key focus for this age group was on positive mentality and keeping focused during all forms of play, whether in training or during matches. Such focus will provide the boys with fundamental skills that will serve them well as they move up through the school. The progression has been self-evident in the outstanding camaraderie witnessed on the pitch throughout the term. All teams have scored goals in abundance and kept goals conceded to a minimum due to both their tenacity and their determination to win.

FOOTBALL: U 11

W: 22 L: 17 D: 3

OPPOSITION

U11A U11B U11C U11D U11E U11F U11G

Cranmore

1 – 3

Falcons

2 – 1 N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A N/A

Newland House

4 – 1

Danes Hill

3 – 2 C C C C C N/A

Cranmore

2 – 2

5 – 1

5 – 0

4 – 4

3 – 1

N/A

Cumnor House

1 – 0

N/A

5 – 1

N/A

4 – 1

1–3

King’s House

1 – 4

1 – 3

5 – 1

3 – 4

7 – 1

5 – 0

N/A

Northcote Lodge

1 – 2

1 – 3

2 – 3

4 – 6

7 – 2

2 – 2

N/A

Harrodian

1 – 2

7 – 0

N/A

2 – 3

N/A

2–3

Shrewsbury House

0 – 6

2 – 4

3 – 1

4 – 5

7 – 0

2 – 1

N/A

1 – 6

5 – 1

N/A

4 – 1

The U11 age group had a very positive term of football with some excellent results along the way. All boys have represented the school and worked tremendously hard for themselves and their teammates. A key focus for this age group was on technical and tactical development. This will provide the boys with fundamental skills which will serve them well as they progress through the school. The progression the boys made, not only technically but tactically and socially has been evident to see. All teams have played in some thrilling games which could have gone either way and showed energy and enthusiasm throughout the term.

1 – 3 N/A

3 – 0 4 – 1

N/A 12 – 1

N/A N/A

After the half-term break the A-F teams played Nor thcote Lodge at home in what was a highly competitive block. The E team were the only team to come away with an emphatic victory but all games were very well matched and the quality of football on show was fantastic to watch. The penultimate fixture block was a trip over to Harrodian for the ABDG teams. The B team had their best performance of the term playing exciting, U11A

The first fixture saw the boys face Cranmore at home. The C and D teams played tremendously well to gain victories against a strong Cranmore year group. Both teams took their chances well and defended as if their lives depended on it. The second block of fixtures saw the ACEF travel to Newland House. The ACE all won 4–1 but a special mention must go the F team who scored goals in abundance in their first match of the term. Unfor tunately, the Danes Hill block had to be cancelled due to water-logged pitches. Therefore, the next block of fixtures was the return leg against Cranmore. The progress made was evident as no teams were defeated and the highlight was a 4–4 draw for the D team. The D team was constantly chasing the game and scored a last minute goal to equalise. The next block saw the boys travel to Croydon to face Cumnor House for ACFG fixtures. The F team played tremendously well against the Cumnor House C team to win 4–1. The final set of fixtures before half-term was away at King’s House. This was a tough block against strong opposition. The strength and depth of the U11 age group was evident on this day as the E and F team were both victorious scoring plenty of goals and conceding very few.

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attacking football. The final fixtures of the term were away to Shrewsbury House on their 3G pitch. This allowed the boys to play shor t and sharp passing football. With three wins and three losses this was a very even block and the boys can be very proud of their effor ts. The U11s were very lucky to take par t in numerous tournaments during the autumn term. First off, the A team took par t in the Royal Russell tournament where they lost in the plate final in a very tight match. The A team then went to the ISFA regionals at Rokeby. The team was drawn in a tough group, finishing four th and unfor tunately just missing out on knockout stages. Throughout the term the A team took par t in the Surrey Prep Schools’ competition. The boys lost in the quar ter finals to a strong King’s House team but can be very proud of their effor ts, beating Falcons and Danes Hill on the way. We then took par t in the Hampton Prep tournament with the added pressure of being holders. The A team went unbeaten all morning but unfor tunately lost in the final after a tremendous effor t. Finally, a special mention must go to the U11B team who won the Fulham Prep Tournament playing fantastically well and becoming victors in a spectacular morning of football.

The boys showed a fantastic attitude to training and matches and have been a delight to coach all term. All teams have played a high tempo style of football, looking to defend from the front and then play a passing game from all par ts of the pitch. This has aided the boys’ progression and confidence in possession throughout the term. All boys and staff can be very proud of their effor ts. Thank you for a

U11E

U11F

U11D

U11G

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U11C

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FOOTBALL: U10

W: 18 L: 10 D: 4

OPPOSITION

U10A U10B U10C U10D U10E U10F U10G

Cranmore

3 – 4

3 – 3

1 – 5

6 – 3

3 – 0

N/A

Northcote Lodge

1 – 2

2 – 3

5 – 2

7 – 0

7 – 1

0–1

Northcote Lodge

2 – 3

2 – 2

4 – 2

6 – 0

6 – 1

1–2

Cranmore

1 – 2

4 – 3

0 – 1

3 – 2

7 – 4

6 – 0

N/A

Rokeby

Win

N/A

4 – 4

N/A

Harrodian

2 – 0

5 – 1

N/A

8 – 1

N/A

8–0

The U10s had a positive season of football, displaying both good results and a step-up in their technical and tactical development. Whilst having lost a number of games, the determination, desire and attitude of the boys were first class and were the reason why they only lost by narrow margins against strong opposition. Having said that, as a result of superb technical ability and athleticism, the boys were able to outperform their opponents, often resulting in large victories. Cranmore was up first and the boys knew this was going to be a tough game. It was positive to see the E and F team dominate in their games, showing our strength in depth. For the A, B, C and D team, the results were not in their favour. However, this did not reflect the performances produced by all the boys, as they showed good attacking football allowing them to score plenty of goals. As the boys moved into their second game, they came across a strong Nor thcote Lodge opposition. Another display of free-flowing attacking football allowed the boys to outscore their opponents in the lower teams, whilst in the A and B team, despite the results not being in their favour, they again had a positive attitude ensuring they fought until the last minute of the game and narrowly missed out. The A team had their first tournament of the season at King’s House. This was a great oppor tunity to explore tournament football and identify the difference between this and normal matches. They were able to reach the plate competition where they unfor tunately lost in the knockout stages. This was a good learning curve for the tournaments to come, however. The U10s then faced Nor thcote Lodge once again and were determined to take revenge. The boys worked hard in the training sessions building up to the game, leading to some improved individual performances.

Fur ther into the season, the A team par ticipated in the Dulwich tournament, whilst the B team were given their own time to shine as they battled hard to win the Fulham Prep tournament – a fantastic achievement from the B team. Cranmore was back again but this time the boys were ready. A significant improvement in results across all the teams was a good demonstration of the progression the boys had made. The biggest improvement was the defensive ability displayed as, this time around, the teams conceded fewer than half as many goals as the previous round against Cranmore. This was encouraging for the boys, especially for the A team who were soon hosting the King’s tournament. As the day of the tournament arrived, the pressure was on for the A team who U10A

U10B

The U10As had a great oppor tunity to prove themselves as the Cranmore tournament approached. The standard of football on show was a significant improvement, but, they just fell shor t of reaching the main competition and instead progressed through to the plate competition. Again, due to their resilience and desire to do well, the boys were able to bring home their first piece of silverware as they won the plate competition.

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had the toughest group, but this did not concern them as they topped their group, playing great football. In the semi-finals, the A team played the B team â€“ who also had a fantastic tournament to reach this far against other A teams â€“ and the As managed to pip the B team. They then went on to win the overall competition, playing some of the best football they had all season.

towards the opposition. In addition, their tactical awareness in both attack and defence has saw an improvement, but more specifically they star ted to identify that working as a team is an efficient way of outplaying their opponents. A special well done to the E and F teams who completed the season unbeaten, playing tremendous football throughout. All the boys should be extremely happy with what they have accomplished this season. Thank you to all the boys for their hard work and good luck in the future. LY

As a whole, the boys were in a good position going into the last couple of games. The game against Rokeby saw the A and C team combine to make two equal teams, before playing a round robin against Rokeby A team. The boys worked exceptionally well together managing a win against them, whilst the F U10E team drew in their game. The final fixture of the season saw on-form A, B, D and G teams travel to Harrodian. All the boys gave it their all, proving how much they have learnt and developed over the course of the season by bringing home four out of four wins. In addition, they managed to score a total of 23 goals, only conceding two which was testament to their well-rounded performance.

U10C

U10F

U10D

U10G

S P O RT : F O OT B A L L

Despite struggling at the star t of the season, a desire to work hard and improve helped the boys progress throughout the term, and, towards the end, they were playing their best football. As a year group, their ability on the ball including their passing and dribbling developed, as well as their first touch, and they star ted to move the ball into space rather than

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FOOTBALL: U9

W: 27 L: 1 D: 6

OPPOSITION

U9A

U9B

U9C

U9D

King’s House

3 – 2

8–0

6 – 0

8 – 2

4 – 3

6 – 2

N/A

7–0

Cranmore

4 – 2

1–0

1 – 0

3 – 1

7 – 1

4 – 1

N/A

6–0

Cumnor House

1 – 1

5–0

N/A

2–0

1 – 1

N/A

Cranmore

3 – 3

4–3

2 – 1

2 – 2

1 – 3

6 – 2

N/A

5–1

Shrewsbury House

3 – 1

5–4

3 – 1

5 – 2

4 – 2

8 – 0

0 – 0

8–4

U9A

U9B

U9C

U9D

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Tigers Lions Leopards Pumas

As a year group the U9s had an outstanding season. As you can see from the results, most teams won most of their games and in some style too. The boys have all been a pleasure to coach and tried their level best during training sessions whilst adapting to the Tigers, Lions, Pumas and Leopards concept.

remarkable 14 goals from three games without conceding; there were hard fought 1–1 draws for the As, Tigers and Lions. Having already played Cranmore, it appeared that our opponents had improved a great deal since the star t of term. As the scores suggest, the games were much closer and there were some thrilling games in the A-D fixtures. Such was Cranmore’s determination to gain some revenge they held us to two draws and gained a victory against our Tigers. Having to work hard for our results held us in good stead for the games against Shrewsbury House.

We star ted with a clean sweep of victories against King’s House, scoring a remarkable 41 goals during the first round of matches. This showed we would enjoy a fair amount of success during the term. Not only did we score a vast number of goals, the Bs, Cs and Pumas recorded clean sheets and did the same two days later against Cranmore. A William Ritchie hat-trick and a goal from Kentaro Tamura (taking his tally to three for the season), saw the As past Cranmore and there were also convincing wins for the D team, Pumas, Tigers and Lions. All the staff were very pleased with how things had star ted, and there were some excellent training sessions prior to the games against Cumnor House. Again, we did not suffer any defeats but there were a number of drawn games as we matched our opponent’s ability levels, meaning most of our teams played against higher opposition. The B team had the standout result with a 5–0 win which gave them a

Expecting tough final fixtures, the boys achieved some outstanding results on their way to seven wins and a draw against our local rivals. The Bs once again came out on top during another high scoring game while an excellent hat-trick from Henry Minson saw the As home during their best performance of the season. The Leopards, playing the first ever competitive fixture in the new spor ts hall, played out an exciting 0–0 draw, while on the astro-turf, the goals flew in as the Pumas won a great game 8–4 to finish the season in style. I would like to thank all the boys and coaches for their effor ts this term as well as parents for the touchline suppor t. GPB S P O RT : F O OT B A L L

U9 Pumas

U9 Lions

U9 Tigers

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FOOTBALL: U8

W: 40 L: 9 D: 5

O P P O S I T I O N U8A

U8B

U8C

U8D Leopards Lions Pumas Tigers

King’s House

3 – 2

5 – 0

5 – 3

2 – 0

4 – 0

N/A

3 – 0

6–1

Donhead

8 – 0

3 – 0

1 – 3

8 – 1

N/A

8 – 3

1 – 4

2–0

Dulwich College Juniors

1 – 0

6 – 2

0 – 2

4 – 0

6 – 1

1–0

Shrewsbury House

8 – 1

5 – 3

1 – 0

1 – 2

3 – 3

2 – 2

4 – 1

2–2

WCPS

4 – 2

3 – 0

5 – 0

7 – 0

6 – 2

7 – 1

3 – 3

4–0

WCPS

N/A

2 – 3

5 – 0

6 – 2

6 – 1

4 – 0

3 – 3

2–1

Shrewsbury House

3 – 8

2 – 1

5 – 1

3 – 2

2 – 1

3 – 5

2–1

As the results show, the Transitions had an outstanding first season in the King’s shir t. All boys represented the school in style. They applied themselves fabulously throughout and this led to many positive results across the season. A key focus for this age group has been on their technical development and the phrase: ‘The ball moves faster than the man.’ The boys took to this concept, linking up with each other well on many occasions. The progression was evident through the exciting attacking football that was on display. All teams scored goals a plenty and limited their opposition to few goals. For the first time, we trialled the idea of mixed teams. This seemed to pay dividends in both performance and results, as well as keeping the boys enthusiastic regardless of their ability. Most impor tantly the boys took well to the concept and enjoyed the idea of the different animal names for the teams.

always tough for the boys, but they didn’t complain and represented the school fabulously throughout. Commended for their great behaviour and willingness to succeed, the academy teams secured memorable draws in what were end-to-end encounters. The B and C teams continued their winning habits, with the A team creating a masterclass, despite coming up against some very useful opposition. Next the boys’ attentions turned to Wimbledon Common Prep School. This is always a thoroughly enter taining block fixture as some of the boys very U8A

The first fixture saw the boys come up against what is always a good King’s House side. A lot was on the line but they responded superbly. Despite only having been introduced to football at school for a few weeks they displayed scintillating speed in attack and some accomplished defending. Stand out performances saw the U8B, Leopards and Pumas keep clean sheets, as the whole year kicked off the football season in style with wins across the board. Next, the U8s played host to Donhead with all teams having competitive games. Notably the A, D and Lions teams, scored eight of the very best to conquer their local opponents.

U8B

Dulwich College was up next. Having worked tirelessly on attack in training and at club, the boys carried on the idea of letting the ball do the work. Some of the teams had fabulous wins, with the C and Pumas teams winning in some style, both hitting their opponents for six. The season continued as the boys travelled for their first away game of the season with Shrewsbury House the opponents. Back-to-back fixtures are

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much enjoy competing against their previous school. The academy teams were cer tainly purring at the thought of a rematch the week after. The rematch came, but the opposition had grown stronger. However, so had Kingâ€™s. The boys continued their great results with some fabulous performances. It was great to see genuine improvement.

U8 Leopards

The season was capped off with another fixture versus Shrewsbury House. It was a fabulous way to finish, winning the block 6â€“2. A special mention must go to the Tigers who secured an unbeaten season. In addition to all the block fixtures, the U8A team competed in the Cranmore Tournament in which they finished runners-up to a last-minute, extra-time winner. The boys can be commended for their superb attitude at Centenary football, with the C team conquering Dulwich A team in the bowl final on penalties.

U8 Tigers

U8C

U8 Pumas

U8D

U8 Lions

S P O RT : F O OT B A L L

In summary, it has been an outstanding football season for the U8 year group. I am proud to say that it is cer tainly a strong basis from which to build and all boys represented the school fabulously throughout. Thank you for all your wonderful suppor t and dedication in what was an incredible season. BDJ

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SWIMMING This year star ted very differently for the King’s boys as they were all so excited by the brand new swimming pool, even if it was the same old Mr O’Sullivan in charge! My first words to the boys this year were: ‘Look how lucky we are, boys, to have such a great facility, and let’s make sure we make the most of it.’ They cer tainly did not let me down on that front.

This year saw the strongest KCJS swim squad in my time here. We got off to a good star t in our opening event against Dulwich College at the U8–U18 gala. The atmosphere was amazing, and the boys thoroughly enjoyed competing the whole way through. The boys then moved on to swim against a very strong Whitgift team, with the Lowers and Uppers star ting to prove just how strong they were going to be this year. Next, we had our first Transition to Third Form gala at which we beat the Cumnor House A team for the first time ever. It was at this point that I knew this was going to be a special year.

The first big competition of the year was the London League where 24 of the top London schools compete, from which teams are seeded into a final competition. We came 11th in years 3 to 6 (Transition to third Form) and ninth in years 7 to 8 (Lower and Upper Removes), which put us into the B final. The 3 to 6 team went to Dulwich after school one evening to compete in the B final, coming up against some strong schools. The boys swam very well and managed to win the B final, narrowly beating Dulwich but – perhaps even more satisfyingly – beating my brother’s school, Garden House! Following a jubilant school coach ride back, (and a quick phone call to my brother), it was quickly time to focus on the year 7 to 8 final. The boys went into the final as favourites and competed brilliantly throughout. Even with our Junior School and Lower School teams combined, we just missed out on the trophy, which went deservedly to Trinity by two points. A fantastic first term concluded with wins against Cranmore, Ibstock Place and Garden House. In February, we took par t in the IAPS National Qualifiers, at which the top 20 relay teams or Individuals usually progress to the National Final at the London Aquatic Centre. As you can see opposite, we had some great results this year and would cer tainly have been taking more boys to the final than ever before. Well done to every one of the boys who took par t. Each boy who would have made a National Final is listed in the table opposite. It is a real shame they did not get to show off their talents on the main stage, but I have no doubt that next year they will be back faster and stronger. Boys – thank you once again for a terrific year, and I look forward to seeing many of you in the pool in September. LOS

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U10 Medley Relay

Douglas Adams, Daniel Panna, Rory Fraser, Alec Gilligan 9th out of 105 schools

U10 Freestyle Relay

Rory Fraser, Nathan Han, Daniel Panna, Alec Gilligan

4th out of 118 schools

U13 Freestyle Relay

Desmond Zee, Virgile Alexandre, Benjamin Torrance, Callum Grantham

18th out of 80 schools

U10 25m Backstroke Douglas Adams

18th out of 139 boys

U10 25m Butterfly

Rory Fraser

19th out of 104 boys

U10 25m Freestyle

Alec Gilligan

13th out of 152 boys

U13 50m Backstroke Virgile Alexandre

9th out of 82 boys

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SWIM SQUAD Virgile Alexandre Will Barney Ar thur Boyer-Chammard Hugo Brabazon George Butterwor th Marco Castelvetri Oliver Coleman Luka Cory-Wright Enrique Del Rio Virseda Thomas Duret Nicholas Ellinghorst Charlie Fraser Alec Gilligan Callum Grantham Ned Hawkins Ethan Hull Harry Jones Galvin Kitchen Viktor Kou Ethan Lim Sean Malus Alexander Panna Stefano Percudani Felix Sitter Benjamin Torrance Oliver Watt Odran Williams Leonardo Wood Casper Zee

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Douglas Adams Vikramaditya Baljee Hudson Blyde Alex Brabazon Luke Bur ton Gheorghi Castelli Rocco Castelvetri Otto Collins Vicente dâ€™Allance de Melo Leo Dickinson Jethro Eley Dashiell Fisher Rory Fraser Jakob Gordon Nathan Han Luke Hicklin William James Vedant Khera Harry Klein Alp Kucukyildiz Senan Loth Zaal Owen Daniel Panna Christopher Preston Kentaro Tamura Jack Turner Archie Whitaker Thomas Winter Kirill Zakharyan Desmond Zee

S P O R T S D AY

U10 Winners 1500m

Rory Fraser

This year, we decided to run Spor ts Day but with a slight twist… a ‘vir tual’ Spor ts Day. As has always been the case, the sun was shining, and the weather was perfect for an afternoon of athletics. Every boy from Rushmere and Priory took par t, competing in ‘vir tual’ events that tested speed, agility, balance, co-ordination, and endurance. For most pupils, these events took place in the comfor t of their own homes, gardens, and parks. However the recently returned Third Form boys were able to compete at school where the PE staff did an excellent job in supervising and making the day run superbly. With events ranging from the 20m sprint all the way through to ‘Keepie Uppies’ with a football in one minute, the boys showed their impressive talents, all earning vital points for their Houses. Special mentions must go to Leo Ogungbemi, Theo Knowles, Alec Gilligan, Harry Klein, Ben Cour t and Max Losson who each achieved the Victor Ludorum for their age groups. Despite plenty of valiant effor ts from the boys that afternoon, it was Norman who took the accolade of overall Rushmere winners and Tudor who were victorious overall in Priory. Well done to everyone who took par t, and thank you to the parents for recording evidence and assisting in the vir tual events from home. A big thank you also to the PE staff for ensuring the day ran so smoothly. DAC

Speed Bounce

Sam Garner

Standing Broad Jump

Alec Gilligan

Push-Up Test

Alexandre Oussedik

V-Sit Challenge

Sammy Hull

Football Juggling

Thomas Keck

Agility Run

Maks Blicharz

20m Sprint

Alec Gilligan

Victor Ludorum

Alec Gilligan

1500m

Harry Klein

Speed Bounce

Thomas Winter

Standing Broad Jump

Oliver Coleman

Push-Up Test

Charlie Maguire

V-Sit Challenge

Maxim Axentiev

Winning Houses Rushmere Priory

Norman Tudor

U8 Winners

U11 Winners

Football Juggling

Oscar Tostivin

Agility Run

Theodore Rolfsen, Isaac Liow, Christian Shor t, and Sebastian Edwards

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20m Sprint

Harry Taylor

Victor Ludorum

Harry Klein

2000m

Ben Cour t

Speed Bounce

Henry van den Bosch

Standing Broad Jump

George Cadbury-Gosling

Push-Up Test

Ben Torrance

V-Sit Challenge

Ben Cour t

Football Juggling

Max Rawlinson

Agility Run

George Cadbury-Gosling, Tobin O’Donnell

T, S

20m Sprint

Ben Cour t

Victor Ludorum

Ben Cour t

2000m

Aaryan Parkash-Mair

Speed Bounce

Oliver Warbey

U12 Winners

1000m

Nicholas Ellinghorst

Speed Bounce

Max Lin

Standing Broad Jump

Leo Ogungbemi

Push-Up Test

Sachin Gilchrist

V-Sit Challenge

Ethan Hull

Football Juggling

James Gibbs

Agility Run

Hamish Boswell Kerr and Ruben Jithendra

S, W

20m Sprint

Alber t Champion

Standing Broad Jump

Anton Pearce-Kulyk

Victor Ludorum

Leo Ogungbemi

Push-Up Test

Max Losson

V-Sit Challenge

Max Losson

Football Juggling

Ethan Bennett

Max Losson

U9 Winners

U13 Winners

1000m

Theo Knowles

Agility Run

Speed Bounce

Nathan Han

20m Sprint

James Snook

Standing Broad Jump

James Etienne

Victor Ludorum

Max Losson

Push-Up Test

Alp Akdere

V-Sit Challenge

Seb Sinclair

Football Juggling

Theo Knowles

Agility Run

Vikram Baljee

20m Sprint

Laurie Gawley

Victor Ludorum

Theo Knowles

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