King's Magazine 2021-22

Cover photo: Artwork by Shaurya Bajpai

Inside front cover: Artwork by Arya Joshi

Inside back cover: Jazz band

HOUSES

LOWER SCHOOL

By Mr James Gibson

One of the most exciting elements of the lower school restructure was the incorporation of the six senior school houses for the first time. Pupils entering the senior school (or coming together in year 8), were placed into a house that they will now stay in for remainder of their King’s careers. Weekly house assemblies, positions of responsibility and house socials allowed pupils to mix with different peers and interact with older pupils in the middle school and sixth form. House events immediately became one of the weekly highlights with dodgeball and bench ball starting the proceedings and the house song competition a wonderful, fun and inclusive way to finish the academic year in the final week of term. Top three placings for events were recorded on the screens around school with each house well represented. Chess, debating, music, charity events, cricket, rugby, football, hockey, basketball, board games, charades… the events catered for all and were hotly contested. Our thanks to all the lower school heads of house and pupils for making the first year a memorable one!

MACLEAR

By Malachy McEvoy

In a year full of new beginnings, coming out of isolation, and escaping the endless Microsoft Teams calls, Maclear’s house spirit never wavered. We have experienced another year of success, with a record number of victories across many house events: from chess to squash, music to drama, and of course rowing (which wasn’t much of a surprise seeing as we have half of the first boat in Maclear).

Most notably, of course, is our continued dedication to our house charity Perseid. This year we raised over £2,000, mostly through illicit Krispy Kreme sales to junior school students. Although we’ve been hampered in recent years from making our regular visits to our neighbours Perseid, down in Raynes Park, hopefully with the money we have donated they will be able to continue the important work they do to care for young people with severe learning difficulties.

In drama, we were once again treading the boards in style, with Weimin Khoo and Rhys Jones leading a team of thespians to rapturous victory in House Improvisation. In a nail-biting showdown, Rhys managed to steal first place in front of the entire Collyer Hall. In February’s House Plays, the lower sixth put together a riveting performance of The History Boys with Theo Hawkins and Louis McEvoy leading the way under Weimin’s watchful eye, narrowly missing out on a place on the podium. However, it was the ensemble performance of students from across all years that made this performance so special, and it was great to see everyone working together to achieve something quite amazing.

In music, we had a year of great success with yours truly clinching a hotly contested second place in Sixth Form House Music (although the judge was clearly bribed). It was in the Battle of the Bands, however, where our prowess truly shined, achieving a stunning victory in front of 150 onlookers in the Concert Hall. Ella Gallagher’s beautiful voice soared in our arrangement of Noah Cyrus’s “Lonely”, accompanied by a small choir and string section made up of Maclear students. Although we had only two rehearsals(!), a spirited performance from everyone involved managed to seal the victory, defeating a brilliant Alverstone and competition from the other houses.

In sport too, we have a host of victories to be proud of, including a victory in the first event of the year, lower sixth house frisbee (which got quite physical if I remember correctly). We had subsequent successes in lower fifth and upper fifth squash and badminton, lower sixth chess, fourth form handball, fourth form table tennis and fourth form swimming. Notably, our sixth form team of runners achieved a clean sweep in the cross country (although I was beaten by my own younger brother, much to the disappointment of everyone involved). In senior swimming, we won once more, but at the cost of Rebecca’s shoulder, which she dislocated swimming in the final- that’s dedication!

Unfortunately, we have to say goodbye to some members of the house, and none will be more missed than Mr. Hedges, Miss Harman, and Miss McGinley. Mr. Hedges joined us in 2018, and since arriving has been an invaluable member of Maclear. Apart from putting us all to shame by running an ultramarathon to raise money for Perseid, he has been a constant positive presence and a great tutor to his tutees. Miss McGinley

leaves us too, seemingly to go and teach skiing in Switzerland (which seems like a worthy reason!). Since becoming Deputy Head of Maclear, she has led the house and our charity initiatives with aplomb, as well as her indispensable role in the sports department. Finally, Miss Harman leaves us as well, off to live in New England. Serving as a member of the English department for many years, she will be sorely missed by everyone who had the pleasure of being taught by her or of being her tutee.

As we reach the end of the year, the prefect team must relinquish its grip on the house and hand it over to the new generation. However, they deserve a huge thanks for all their work organising house events and (more importantly) the lunch queue, but also for providing the younger years with immaculate role models to look up to as they rise in the school.

The tutors deserve immense praise for their endless dedication to the students in Maclear. With our new league of inter-tutor group competitions, we had a huge amount of fun playing table tennis, Pictionary, table football and more each Monday morning. Of course, I would be remiss in not thanking Mr. Josypenko for an exceptional debut year as Head of Maclear. Mr. Josypenko took the wheel from Mr. Byfield at the end of last year and has steered Maclear flawlessly out of the pandemic with a booming voice, bubbly demeanour, and extraordinary knowledge of American sporting trivia.

Good luck to the new set of prefects, and to Sienna, Walter and Greg as Captain and ViceCaptains for the next year. From me and the rest of the upper sixth, thank you to everyone who has made Maclear such a welcoming and wholesome family and community, and best of luck for the future!

Sports Day track and field team

Fourth Form Frisbee

Lower sixth table tennis

ALVERSTONE

By Finn O’Hare

Alverstone thrived in a year when things finally began to return to normal, and we enjoyed an almost uninterrupted schedule of house events for the first time in quite a while. Tuesday lunchtimes were as busy as ever, it gave everyone a great number of opportunities to get involved and represent the house. It was great to see almost all the lower sixth turning up to support house frisbee at the start of the year and this enthusiasm remained evident throughout. We had great successes in house events, with the fourth form getting off to an ideal start with victory in cross country, while other notable successes throughout the year came in middle school rowing, upper fifth five-a-side football and frisbee, lower sixth golf and debating and upper sixth handball and debating.

The annual House Play Competition is always a highlight of the events calendar, and this year was no exception; Johnny Woodnutt directed an abridged version of Journey’s End with great success, involving 20 cast members from all year groups, and winning the award for ‘best direction’. Johnny himself even had to step in and perform one of the leading roles due to the last minute effects of Covid on the cast – well done to him and all of the cast on a superb production. Battle of the Bands brought another strong display as a James Southorn-led Green Day cover saw us finish in second.

This year also saw a number of new charity initiatives, as we looked to increase our support for our house charity, Metabolic Support UK, who provide support and advice to people suffering with inherited metabolic disorders. The charity committee, led by Miss James, Cameron and Sophie, oversaw a hot chocolate sale at the Christmas Fair, which was a great success with almost all of the upper sixth school and house prefects finding some time to help out, as well as the launch of our very own (and extremely fashionable) Alverstone green hoodies, all of which helped us to raise money to support a really deserving cause. The year ended with two rounds of “Assassination”, one just involving Alverstone and the other for the whole school. It is fair to say that there was tremendous enthusiasm for these events from pupils and staff alike – certainly they brought the whole school community together whilst raising over £1,000 for the house charity.

A big thank you must go to our team of prefects, and especially to my two vice-captains, Emily Jepson and Sophie White, for the invaluable support they have provided to the house, helping to ensure all our house events ran smoothly, as well as invariably providing passionate and motivating support from the side-lines – a special mention here goes to Filippo Varda, whose passion for the house never failed to shine through. I would also like to thank Dr Squires, Miss James and all of the Alverstone house tutors for all the work they continue to do on behalf of the house and all of the pupils. In particular, I would like to thank

Lower sixth volleyball team

Upper fifth five-a-side

Mr Entwistle who is leaving King’s after his second stint as an Alverstone tutor – we all wish you the very best for the future.

There can be no better way for me to finish than by thanking all of my fellow Alverstonians for all of their contributions and enthusiasm, be it through participation in house events, house assemblies or the mentoring programme, for helping to make it such an enjoyable year for everyone involved in the house. It has been a pleasure to be captain of house and I wish the new team of prefects and Alverstone the best of luck for next year and for the future.

Lower fifth dodgeball team

GLENESK

By Rhea Sheth

Ithink it’s safe to say that Glenesk is a special house; full of kindness, compassion, and house spirit. I admire every member of our house especially as everyone comes together on a Tuesday to #getinvolved in house events, support one another, and have fun together. This year, Glenesk has achieved so much, from being the champion of the upper sixth five-a-side football for the third year in a row to being the overall winner of the House Olympiad!

It’s always easy to identify a Gleneskian through their shining individuality that strives to get involved in anything and everything while also being supportive of everyone around them. I have personally seen my fellow Gleneskians balance an extremely busy schedule with all their co-curricular commitments yet also having enough time and energy to give their most to Glenesk. The house is often known to have the most participants at any house event, which I believe sums up the idea of Glenesk entirely; we are a welcoming community and will rise to all challenges.

There are an endless number of memorable events and activities that are worth mentioning but here are some of our favourites. As Covid supposedly came to an end this year, we saw the return of so many different events that helped bring back a sense of normality to King’s. We could finally meet our entire tutor group every week, building relationships between year groups and creating a dynamic like no other. This year we introduced a rather competitive weekly tutor group quiz that helped make Glenesk a cohesive unit of tutor groups instead of individual classes. We took this further and ran a football penalty shoot-out which was a fun tutor time activity to make the most of the weather in the spring term. Glenesk’s House Play directed by Matilde was a successful remake of a scene from the hit TV show Community. This comedy was phenomenal, especially given that the students that took part had limited experience in the theatrical field and were still able to create a captivating performance. Matilde cast the play very well and each actor fit their character perfectly! The Battle of the Bands

performance of Elton John’s I’m Still Standing, led by Harry was another great accomplishment for Glenesk. Having Jonathon Cheng on the piano wearing a very sparkly and blinding golden jacket will be an unforgettable memory!

This year we can all be proud of Glenesk’s outstanding efforts to raise over £5,000 for our house charity, St Raphael’s Hospice. All things charity have been exceptionally led by Miss Cooke, from leading regular meetings, to organising

L6th mixed netball

various events, and from giving the middle school boys bacon to giving the junior school kids hope at the lost property cupboard. The year started off with the return of the chaotic, yet thoroughly exhilarating lower school disco run by our very own keen lower sixth students. Throughout the year we had three successful charity weeks which, of course, are famous for the scent of the mouthwatering bacon that fills the quad as Mr Davies and Miss Cooke hop on the grill to cook up bacon butties. This year we also ran two wet sponge throws that were not only successful but a lot of fun for everyone involved. The prefect group of 2021-2022 ended the Easter term with this event which was the perfect way to bring a great year to an end. It was wonderful to see the teachers and prefects leave school for the holidays soaking from the sponge throw yet also with massive smiles on their faces. Finally, Miss Cooke organised two litter picks around Wimbledon which further helped us increase the sense of community in Glenesk.

Of course, none of this year’s success would be possible without all the teachers and tutors in Glenesk. Thank you for supporting us throughout the year and being the key factor allowing events to happen and be a success. All our teachers have worked so hard to make our lives better, more manageable and enjoyable, so on behalf of all the students – thank you! It’s difficult to find teachers that are always so approachable and up for a chat whenever: we are lucky to have an amazing pastoral system.

A particular thanks to Mr Davies who sets the tone for how we all see Glenesk; a friendly, welcoming atmosphere! Thank you for inspiring us all to learn and develop as individuals. We appreciate how involved you are with the house and admire the amount of commitment and enthusiasm that you always show.

A big thank you to the best group of prefects, we have worked so well together to deliver

assemblies, organise events, and lead Glenesk with the utmost dedication. I have enjoyed getting to know all the prefects and seeing everyone take on roles of leadership while being impeccable role models for the younger students. Personally, I would like to thank the vice captains of house, Harry and Jackson. This year would not have been possible without the two of you. You have given up so much of your time during the busiest moments of the year, spending hours after school planning assemblies and being an integral part of the house.

I wish the new prefects the best of luck for next year! I know they are capable of so much and will maintain the values of Glenesk that we currently embody. I am excited to see the potential that Glenesk has and look forward to seeing what

Anna can bring to the house as a captain.

I believe that being in Glenesk is an opportunity and I would urge everyone to make the most of this and take advantage of the unique environment that you are a part of. This is a time to take risks, step out of your comfort zone to find your full potential, and strive to be the best version of yourself. Glenesk is a community where you truly can learn and develop new skills for your future life. I have loved every moment of my two years here and have made endless memories and some of the strongest bonds with people who will be my friends for life.

Lower sixth volleyball

L6th volleyball

MS rowing

KINGSLEY

By Hugo Nicholls

It was only two years ago when school was suspended in March and the then upper fifth cohort were sent home without the pressure of GCSEs to overcome. Since then, Mr Cole has replaced Mr Gibson and revolutionised Kingsley once again with vibrant assemblies and plenty of exciting opportunities for all yeargroups, with our main emphasis being focussed on participation, team-work and enjoyment over results – something this house has been able to achieve for many years under the management of multiple senior house members and many truly tireless prefect teams.

Once appointed at the end of last year, the Kingsley prefect team were efficient and cooperative in their approach to handling school

and house affairs and oversaw numerous successful house events across all five year-groups. The autumn term saw great success for Kingsley house including a remarkable underdog story, parallel to Leicester City’s title charge, as favourites Alverstone and Layton were dismantled whilst a last-minute Justin Line try, running the full length of the pitch after an interception, against Maclear guaranteed Kingsley their first senior house rugby victory in many a year.

The autumn term saw sustained success for Kingsley as the senior hockey quad, under the guidance of Roemer Lips (who selflessly left himself out of the side so that he could manage the team), were able to overpower the opposition as inter-year group teamwork and comradery

meant that Kingsley walked away with first place as well as a new sense of comradery between year groups, a theme which has run through Kingsley all year and for as long as I can remember.

Another theme of Kingsley house this year was its participation levels, whilst at times it faltered, it became our strength. No more so could this be seen than through the house play as Romee Tiffou alongside Martine Maugüé directed Good Will Hunting with the whole cast across four different school year groups getting stuck in and really enjoying themselves. A special mention must go to both Ed Middleton who performed incredibly well as Matt Damon’s Will, and the Best Actor Raphael Henrion who stole the show in the role of Robin Williams’ character. This participation

is and will always be critical as the heartbeat of Kingsley house as not only can people find their personality during these events, but it is great opportunity to socialise and meet new people outside the classroom.

Moving through the year, James Murray was finally able to win his deserved prize in Music solos, but this year Justin Zhang ensured that Kingsley completed the double in the middle school competition. On top of this, a serious effort in the Senior squash event this year meant that finally Layton was dislodged from their throne as the senior side from Kingsley were able to pull through in a pulsating tournament.

Lower sixth frisbee

4K spikeball

Kingsley’s reputation as the ‘bad boys’ of house events - and in this case house five-a-side football in upper sixth - did not prevent an almighty showing in the sports hall, as after team manager Alessio Di-bon had done his best to be as inclusive as possible, Kingsley’s upper sixth looked to emulate their house eleven-a-side football performance just four years earlier, with some prime defensive football from the likes of Roemer Lips and Leo Russo. It was not to be as, once again, Kingsley were pipped by Glenesk, but it summed up Kingsley’s great attitude to the house events on offer and, by extension, school life itself.

Charity was also a way in which the purple army were able to represent less fortunate members of society across the globe, as over £1,000 was raised for Ananya Trust from various events such as cake sales, smash bros tournaments and own clothes days. Other events such as teacher penalty shootouts highlighted great marketing skills within Kingsley as with Mr Pinder’s talents in goal, many King’s students attempted to score against him on multiple occasions.

By the end of the school year, Kingsley, under Mr Cole and Miss Sanford made great strides once again in participation and comradery, and the house provided numerous opportunities to meet new people and make a difference through charity. I have the greatest confidence that the new set of upper-sixth students of Kingsley will do an excellent job in maintaining and improving Kingsley as a house in the upcoming year, and all the students who have been through the Kingsley cycle these past five years have certainly come out as better people.

Above: 2021 Lower sixth mixed football

Left: Lower sixth basketball week 1 part 2

Kingsley school prefects

MAJOR

For many pupils in Major, it would have been the first time returning to school in September where there were far fewer COVID-19 restrictions in place. With this, Major certainly hit the ground running with victories in a total of five house events in the first term, ranging from senior golf where Kalyan Reddy and I (U6) won by a narrow margin, to the new 4th form impressively winning both Basketball and Rugby. Along with this, there were three “Majorian of the Moment” awards issued; Alexia Kieya (U6) for entering the 2022 Immerse Education Essay Competition which addressed cobalt mining in Africa. Due to the excellence of her essay, she was granted a scholarship to take part in Immerse Education’s Law programme. Qasim Choudry (4M) received the second award for his fantastic xylophone performance in House Music. He would go on to perform the piece in front of the whole house at the end of the term, which left every Majorian in awe. The final “Majorian of the Moment” was won by Shiv Sarikwal (L6) who cycled over an outstanding 1,000km and raising in excess of £2,500 for the British Heart Foundation. The first term saw an unbelievable amount of money raised for the house charity. The return of the house hoodies, as well as the brilliant innovative idea of Isla Campbell who introduced the £7.50

challenge where tutor groups competed to raise the most money, allowed the house to raise over £3,000 for the charity in just the first term.

In the new year, Major continued its success from the autumn term with wins in Senior Football, where the team was led valiantly by Zohair Irtiza-Ali (U6), as well as middle school water polo and debating. However, the most impressive victory came courtesy of the actors in Major. Led by Jamie Brooker, Alex Beech and Vihaan Weerasinghe (L6), Major’s performance of the play Of Mice and Men won Best Play which is an outstanding achievement and the pupils

leading the play also become “Majorians of the Moment” due to their efforts. Further to this, Oliver Bonding (L5M) won the award for his phenomenal performance in the Florida Orange Bowl tennis tournament where he came sixth out of 128 in a highly competitive field.

Major’s efforts to raise money for Shooting Star Children’s Hospices continued to be second to none throughout the year. The stella work rate of all pupils during ‘Major Charity Week’ saw over £500 being raised. Along with this, continued hard work outside of the classroom allowed Eloise Davies and Sofia Committeri (L6) to win awards due to their kindness, commitment and service to others which conveys the type of character traits a Majorian possesses. During the spring term Major saw a temporary change at the top of the leadership tree with Miss Peel taking a break for a term as Head of House. This saw Mr Rogers coming in to work with Mr Reekes in running the house for the term. Even with this change in leadership, Majorians continued to work tremendously hard for the house and these efforts don’t go unnoticed.

With the summer term coming around, the school saw public exams returning for the first time since 2019. With the upper sixth and upper fifth taking study leave, there were significantly fewer house events. However, this did not stop the upper sixth from giving their all in their final house event of volleyball as they were they only house to have a full team. Major continued to demonstrate incredible commitment for the house charity. As the sun started to come out, the Charity Committee thought it a good a idea to sell lemonade which proved fruitful as £417 ended up being raised. This took the total of money raised for charity for the year to £4,471.79.

By Freddie Eriksson

Major red ties 2021-22

House play

I would like to thank my blue tie team of Isla Campbell, Josh Law and Izzy Steinmeyer for working tirelessly with me for the whole year and making the year of 2021-2022 an extremely successful one for Major due to their neverending stream of innovative ideas for the house. I would also like to take this opportunity to wish the new band of prefects in Major all the best in their future care of the house. Moreover, all the tutors for their unfaltering support which they show, as well as all of the wisdom which they provide us with.

Finally, without the countless hours of hard work put in by Mr Reekes and Miss Peel, Major would not be the successful house it is. The pastoral care which they provide is second to none and the house spirit which they instill in all Majorians is what makes Major House stand out in such a ‘golden’ way.

L6 Volleyball

Senior mixed hockey

Fourth form and lower fifth volleyball

LAYTON

which was soon followed by another first placed finish in house speaking by Casper Hill and Alex Defterios. I can now leave reassured that Layton’s oratory prowess is in a capable group of hands for at least another year. Not to be outdone by the lower sixth, the lower fifth finished off the term in style by securing a key victory in the ever popular house 5-a-side in the last event of term.

The spring term saw victories in house bridge with a squad consisting solely of four middle school members of Ms Mulcahy’s tutor group. The lower sixth also continued their fine fashion by winning their five-a-side football, once again displaying their merit as future leaders of the house. The upper fifth picked up their first victory by winning house table tennis thanks to Max Bonomini, Harvey Bloomer and Haran Fernando whilst the fourth form continued the Layton tradition by winning the tug of war.

The summer term symbolised the changing of the guard with the torch being passed down from upper sixth who were now busy with exams to the lower sixth who now took charge of the prefect duties on our busy Tuesday. The inaugural ‘House Line is it Anyway’ saw a cross house team consisting of fourth form, upper fifth and lower sixth which earned a respectable second place finish, but more importantly showed the true Layton house spirit of unity. The lower sixth earned further victories in mixed netball with Casper Hill and Tabitha Nott playing excellently whilst their lower sixth peers such as Alex Yuan and Phoebe Gault also represented the house in senior life drawing, which they won.

The 2021/2022 campaign was another successful year for the mighty Layton house. The period of moving the house out of COVID was always going to be interesting but as expected Layton handled this with ease with a range of stellar results and noble efforts across the house. The infallible house spirit never waivered and under the continued guidance of Mr Grabowski and Mr Broderick the house grew from strength to strength with no lockdown to hold us back. It has been impressive to see the connection between the different year groups thanks to the return of in-person tutor groups, and the prefects being once more able to support house events for the younger years, which has allowed the house to regain its unique unity.

We started off the year strong with impressive results in both lower and upper sixth cross country with notable performaces from Sam Davidson, Andrei Reid and Swen Sankoorikal which earned us second place finishes in both events. But the Layton hunger was not satisfied with the runners-up medal and it took us just two weeks into term to register our first victory which came from our outstanding lower sixth cohort in their mixed tug of war event, which I must say, throughout my time in Layton, has seemed to be a staple of our house’s trophy cabinet across all year groups, with a strong group of boys and girls including Seth Eley, Alex Yuan and Phoebe Gault. At the same time, just mere metres away, the Layton lower fifth were completing a

historic double by winning the prestigious house basketball with Yusuf Fazlanie playing a pivotal role in our success. The second half of term was even more successful with the lower sixth taking centre stage. The arrival of two debating dynamos, seems to continue the tradition of debating success in Layton with Alex Defterios and Giselle Gao earning a dominant victory lower sixth debating,

Away from the sporting front, Layton once more shone in drama and music. Although we were unable to win the house play festival or battle of the bands, the quality of performances this year was incredible with a large Layton cast performing Agatha Christie’s Murder on the Orient Express with special mentions going to middle schoolers Safin Sheikh, Pierce Kelly and

By Rayyan Khan

Lower sixth mixed netball

Fourth form cross country

Fin Perry who showed their acting prowess alongside an older lower sixth cast. Juliet Gray also led a 14-strong ensemble cast with a sublime performance of Stevie Wonder’s “For Once In My Life”. The Laytonian musical talent on display was unfortunately not enough to secure victory but with a talented lower sixth cohort alongside Reis Fernandes our musical future is strong, and we will surely be a force to be reckoned with next year. Continuing on the musical note, a handful of Layton’s sixth formers competed for a place in the house music final with James Desler ultimately representing Layton in the event which was incredibly difficult to determine a winner from, due to high calibre of performances across the school.

I would like to end the article with a thank you to Mr Grabowski and Mr Broderick who have been incredible in leading the house over the

last few years. I would also like to thank my vice captains of house, Juliet Gray and Kaspar Pitblado as well as the two Layton vice captains of school – Anika Gupta and Hugo Robijns. Although I do not know who will be leading the house next year, I am sure that they will do an excellent job as the lower sixth are an extremely talented and driven cohort. In fact, it was incredible to see Alex Defterios and Angie Campbell become the Captain and Vice-Captain of School respectively. It has been an honour and privilege to serve as your house captain and to see the amazing work that Laytonians do on an individual scale as well as the work that the house has done collectively like our present collection for the Wimbledon Guild. I would like to wish all Laytonians the best of luck and on behalf of myself and my upper sixth Layton peers, thank you for making Layton the best house.

Upper sixth mixed netball

House drama festival

Upper fifth five-a-side football

House table tennis

Spikeball 2022

ART

LOWER SCHOOL ART

By Mr Nick Pollen

Over the course of the year the lower school students developed even greater skills using a range of printing, ceramics, sculpture and painting techniques. After starting off with core observational skills, students progressed to working on a variety of projects

including natural form, portraiture, abstraction, surrealism and still life. This year all lower school students also took part in a wonderful art exhibition which really showcased the wealth of artistic talent we have at King’s.

Edward Wawra 7CPM

Daniel Fisch 7HRF

Georges Montefiore 7HFMM

Danyal Syed 7AJB

Grigory Bachurin 7AJB

Aaryan Jadoon 7BDT

Cyanotypes by 7ARHF & 7AJB

Arda Urganci 7AJB

Arjun Tahiliani 7CVO

Giorgio Watson 7HFMM

Hari Singh (7CVO)

Lucas Danson 7HRF

James O’Donnell 7BDT

Harry Jones 7HFMM

Horatio and Thomas 7CVO

Hugh Richardson 7AJB

Hugh Richardson 7AJB

Karthik Prasanna 7CPM

Keeran Jithendra (7CVO)

Peter Stockil 7HFMM

Luka Cory-Wright 7HRF

Nicholas Chen 7CPM

Samuel Garner 7AJB

Santi Swinburne 7CPM

7CPM

Zac Castillo-Bernaus 7AJB

Stanley Cottrell 7BDT

Zander Slimmon 7HFMM

Yigit Ture 7BDT

Harry Hull 8LOS

Joshua Benjamin 8JFO

Ethan Lai 8SRH

James Hughes 8SRH

Harry Klein 8JFO

Ibrahim Choudry 8FLS

Orson Billingham 8ES

Hamish Whelan 8SRH

jack Song 8LOS

Harry Mackay 80JV

Junli Wu 8ES

Kaya Kusi 8SRH

Matteo Lanza 8ES

Oliver Gray 8OJV

Ned Buckingham 8ES

Omar Ansari 8OJV

Oliver Au 8OJV

Ruhaan Nagda 8OJV

Pablo Odumboni 8LOS

Philip Acaia - 8ES

Tristan Coady 8FLS

Christian Short 8OJV

Sebastian Nicholson 8LOS

Charlie Maguire 8JFO

Yassin Hassan 8FLS

Alastair van der Meer 8FLS

Theo Rolfsen 8SRH

Danny Roets 8FLS

Year 8 Art and Conflict work

MIDDLE SCHOOL ART

By Mr Nick Pollen

In the fourth form students continued exploring and experimenting with materials and techniques which included ceramics, large scale sculpture work and painting. A selection of this super work was shown in the Cotman Gallery at the middle school exhibition. At GCSE, students transitioned towards gaining even greater independence with artist research and individualised outcomes. Lower fifth students embarked on their GCSE coursework with expressive landscape painting, sculpture and drypoint etching. This work demonstrated

fantastic skill and is a great foundation for these students’ upper fifth year. Students in the upper fifth, worked incredibly hard completing their coursework. Given how much studio time at school these students lost the year before, it was amazing to see that the quality of the work and the depth in the research and development of ideas still remained. It was marvellous to once again have the opportunity to present the upper fifth students’ work in the summer term exhibition, where some sophisticated outcomes were on display.

Alexander Chokin 4Mac

Aaron Wisnia 4Mac

Alexander Beharry 4A

Alexander Beharry 4A, James Feng 4Mac, Louis Grodner 4L

Alp Ciceksever 4ARYC

Alexander Walker 4A

Geoffrey Lau 4Mac

Dexter Percy 4M

Fionn Duggan 4M

Ben Torrance 4M

Barnaby Kingsbury 4L

Daniel Choi 4G2

Charlie Kolff 4M

Callum Grantham 4M

Luca Buanne 4K

Joshua Caplan 4A

James Moore 4A

Haidan Hasli 4G1

James Turner 4L

Luke Belderbos 4k

Luke Burton 4A

Robert Geijtenbeek 4G1

Nemmat Tabandeh 4ARYC

Matteo Kubach 4Mac

Patrick Tully L5Mac

Matteo Kubach 4Mac

Sam Hogan 4ARYC

Veer Venkatesam L5A

Tom Gilbert 4ARYC

Teddy Bride Mayor 4G1

Alexander Fann L5A

Anton Pearce-Kulyk L5A

Anton Pearce-Kulyk L5A

Barney Lewis L5K

Cassius Collett L5A

Elijah Moreira L5M

Shaurya Bajpai L5L

Arya Joshi L5G

Barney Lewis L5K

Arya Joshi L5G

Edward Kou L5L

Charles Clinton L5L

Ethan Ghosh L5K

Ethan Ghosh L5K

ART Shaurya Bajpai L5L

Shaurya Bajpai L5L

Maxim Djehanian L5A

Oliver Glassock L5Mac

Massi Tondo L5M

Sam Bennett L5A

Jonah Pask L5G

Josef Adams L5M

Cheney Zhu U5Mac

Cheney Zhu U5Mac

Lucas Tricarico U5A

Jonathan Dunckley U5Mac

Lucas Tricarico U5A

Lucas Tricarico U5A

Lucas Tricarico U5A

Cheney Zhu U5MAC

Jonathan Dunckley U5Mac

Taro Philpot U5A

Cheney Zhu U5MAC

William Bishop U5K

William Bishop U5K

Taro Philpot U5A

Taro Philpot U5A

Taro Philpot U5A

William Bishop U5K

William Bishop U5K

SIXTH FORM ART

By Mr Nick Pollen

The lower sixth began by building up key skills during the first half of the year. Starting with natural forms as an initial impetus, students began to develop their own unique personal projects and created some beautiful outcomes. These individual projects will continue to develop in the upper sixth year. The upper sixth, a year group that lost so much time due to Covid, really proved their resolve, creativity and ability to problem solve. Whilst back at school this year, they found new and unique

ways of working. The work shown here does not include the countless examples of outstanding sketchbook studies, preparatory work and artist research that are also very worthy of inclusion. It was fantastic to finally have an exhibition of their work at the end of the year which was extremely exciting, ambitious and diverse. Everyone that came to see the students’ work was highly impressed by the superb level of technical skill and conceptual realisation.

Alex Yuan L6L1

Amelia Kong L6G

Alex Yuan L6L1

Amelia Kong L6G

Alexander Adair L6G1

Frankie Harris L6G2

Alexander Adair L6G1

Frankie Harris L6G2

Saskia Sierra L6G

Frankie Harris L6G2

Nicholas Pleasance L6G1

Saskia Sierra L6G

Nicholas Pleasance L6G1

Saskia Sierra L6G

Saskia Sierra L6G

Alexei Tchesnokov U6L2

Alexei Tchesnokov U6L2

Ben Learoyd U6A2

Alexei Tchesnokov U6L2

Alexei Tchesnokov U6L2

Ben Learoyd U6A2

Charlie Bancroft U6G2

Charlie Bancroft U6G2

Charlie Bancroft U6G2

Charlie Bancroft U6G2

Jack Billingsley U6G1

Kate Kolchina U6L

Kate Kolchina U6L

Jack Billingsley U6G1

Kate Kolchina U6L

Jack Billingsley U6G1

Jack Billingsley U6G1

Luca Freeman U6M1

Luca Freeman U6M1

Luca Freeman U6M1

Luca Freeman U6M1

Luca Freeman U6M1

Luca Freeman U6M1

Nicole Foca U6Mac

Nicole Foca U6Mac

Nicole Foca U6Mac

Nicole Foca U6Mac

DESIGN AND ENGINEERING

LOWER SCHOOL

By Miss Laura Spicer

Year 7:

The year 7 syllabus has been developed through focussed projects that introduce students to the fundamental skills required to pursue a career in engineering or design fields. Projects include: technical sketching, which demonstrate the ability to convey ideas clearly through isometric drawing and rendering.

VEX VR is their introduction to programming and coding in a virtual reality environment controlling a digital robot to accomplish a variety of tasks whilst understanding machine logic and efficient programming language.

Computer Aided Design (CAD) is explored through Onshape, an online platform that allows students to learn, develop and share their work through a web browser without the need for a powerful computer. They learn the key techniques of parametric modelling to create their own fidget spinner designs, which can be sent to our Ultimaker 3D printers to make a physical product from their digital drawings.

Pewter casting is a favourite amongst year 7 as they create their own wooden mould using hand tools with care and precision then inset pieces of laser cut acrylic plastic before melting and pouring

pewter into the cavity. The resulting casting is finished and polished to jewel-like quality for a personal token.

Turn It Up builds on previous skills to design a passive speaker amplifier for a mobile phone from birch plywood using more advanced workshop machinery such as scroll saws and pillar drills to great effect.

Year 8:

The year 8 syllabus develops these skills further with extension projects and new challenges in ‘Wacky Racers’, where students design a motorised dragster to cross the finish line (hopefully in a straight line) and ‘Luxo Lamp’, a creative lighting product from soldered electronics and laser cut articulated mechanisms.

D&E also hosted two lunch time clubs led by the lower sixth with Hovercraft Club where students developed their own remote-controlled skiff hovercrafts, and Flight Club which saw students build a fully functional remote-controlled aeroplane from scratch.

‘The MouseTrap’ - Wacky Racers, Year 8

Nathan Brann 7AJB Turn It Up

Shyan Patel 8FSL Lamp

MIDDLE SCHOOL

Fourth Form:

Fourth form sees students develop more advanced skills which build on their work in the lower school. Highlights of the year include: Miami Beach which is an opportunity to expand their CAD skills to create an architectural masterpiece that would fit in the Art Deco environment of the coastal city.

VEX IQ sees their programming progress to controlling real robots using a variety of inputs and outputs to navigate mazes, pick and place objects, and develop collision avoidance (or not!)

Phone Holder is a classic project that utilises plastic forming processes with their laser cut designs to fabricate unique armatures to support their device. The iterative design process shows them how an idea develops from initial sketch, to card model, and then final product.

‘Manual Handling’ takes their knowledge of structures and mechanisms to fabricate a load carrying device capable of helping with moving house. Products must hold a sizeable box, a big picture frame and a large sack across an obstacle course of ramps, corridors and doorways.

GCSE:

The GCSE course guides students through the theory and practise of how products are designed, manufactured and evaluated, as well as the effectiveness of iterative design. The NEA coursework produces a range of innovative solutions to everyday problems within one of three briefs selected by the student to design for their Primary User, thus considering the needs and environments outside their own. The Design & Engineering Exhibition in April showcased the final working prototypes alongside their portfolio of digital work on display for the King’s community to view. A selection of projects were also nominated for the Triumph Design Awards, an annual competition by Triumph Motorcycles

for pupils studying STEM subjects to present their products that solve a real world problem. Hal Hunter (U5) was awarded the prize for GCSE Engineering.

Clubs:

This year was popular for clubs with an Arduino coding workshop lead by Josh Hatcher (4th former), designing a jet-powered model race car and team management for the F1 in Schools national competition, and continuing the successful F24 electric car with the team building a new design for the 2022 race at Dunsfold Park.

Adam Khan U5G2The Cognito Cube

Kris Harvey U5K

Edward Amor U5L2

Rory Reid U5Mac1Bench Mate

Lucca Butler Cassar U5L2 - Tower of Babel

James Richards U5L2

Hal Hunter U5G2 - Screw It

SIXTH FORM

A much greater emphasis on engineering disciplines and design methodologies is undertaken at A Level with student’s work demonstrating the strong links between theoretical exercises and practical applications. CAD skills and Physics are combined in the Pelton Wheel project as students design high-pressure powered water wheels which are evaluated digitally with Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and

Complex Fluid Dynamics (CFD) and compared to physical 3D printed models blended with machining processes. Another exciting project that brings together traditional woodworking skills and electronics culminates in the Motorised Skateboard.

The NEA:

This year our 5 students have worked very hard to develop a range of innovative engineering projects.

Jack Melford L6G1

Michael MacCormac L6M1

Michael MacCormac L6M1- Electric Skateboard

Daniel Harrington U6A1StandPro

Arabella Zeier U6Mac - RideRise

Sne Samal U6Mac1EverGrow - Dragon’s Den

MUSIC

By Mr Daniel Phillips

The autumn term 2021 came as a relief to King’s musicians, as we were able to reform ensembles and choirs after eighteen months of Covid-related disruption. It has been wonderful to have live audiences back in the concert hall and pupils have appreciated the support and encouragement this brings. However, even the lost months couldn’t stifle the success seen by many, especially in diplomas and examinations. One lower fifth pupil gained the prestigious LRSM diploma for voice, while another successfully passed their ARSM with distinction on both flute and saxophone. Five further pupils gained diplomas, including two of DipABRSM level, whilst three pupils secured places in the National Youth Orchestra of Great Britain for 2022 – a very considerable achievement indeed.

With the expanded lower school, there are now some much larger ensembles, such as Sinfonia, an orchestra of fifty boys. There are also several new groups, including a new lower school choir, a brass quartet, wind ensemble, guitar ensemble and concert band. All of these ensembles have thrived this year and produced thrilling performances.

This year the chamber choir has sung superbly in Evensongs in St Matthew’s Church, St John’s Church, Guildford Cathedral, St Paul’s Cathedral and the Chapel Royal, Hampton Court Palace. They also sang for the service on All Souls’ Day, the Remembrance Day parade and the school Confirmation service. During the first few days of the Easter holiday, the choir enjoyed their first tour for two and a half years, as they travelled across the Solent to sing in churches in Carisbrooke and Ventnor on the Isle of Wight to great critical acclaim. A highlight of the choir’s calendar is always the annual soirée which took place on the final Saturday evening of the year, with a chance to showcase the talent of the upper sixth and wish them a final farewell.

There were three excellent music scholars’ recitals over the year, showcasing some of the finest talent. Competitions for brass, woodwind, strings, piano, organ and singing have been held with impressive standards of performance throughout. Soloists were also involved in notable performances in the middle school and sixth form house music competitions. Meanwhile, the lower school, held their own Young Musician competition.

Because of inclement weather and Covid, there has not been live music at Fireworks since 2018. This year, the big band and two senior pupil bands had the opportunity to take to a newly-sited stage and the spectators were not disappointed!

It wasn’t the only stand-out performance by the Big Band this year, as Jazz Club returned in all its former glory. This year the standard was truly extraordinary, with over half the band being upper sixth members. We were royally treated to some

stunning playing from long-serving musicians, in a night to remember. There have also been two band showcase events, allowing the sax quartet and several pupil bands to take to the stage and develop their promising talents, as well as the annual Battle of the Bands.

All three orchestral concerts featured the wind, chamber and symphony orchestras. In the autumn term, the programme included Saint-Saëns’ Violin Concerto no 3 played superbly by James Murray, as well as Shostakovich’s exuberant Festive Overture. In the spring concert, Jonathon Cheng (U6) played Liszt’s Piano concerto no 1. This was a performance of incredible technical skill and musical artistry. The summer term concert included a first in a joint performance by Sinfonia and symphony orchestra.The combined ensemble brought the concert to a rousing conclusion in Holst’s Mars from The Planets. This was a spectacularly energetic rendition and it was wonderful to see the younger players learn so much from this special experience.

Other events this year have included a voice and piano recital featuring excellence in both solos and duets. There were very successful ensemble concerts, including mainly younger pupils. There have been several masterclasses including for pianists, cellists, singers and chamber musicians, all from

IT HAS BEEN WONDERFUL TO HAVE LIVE AUDIENCES BACK IN THE CONCERT HALL

world-leading experts. Some of these were followed by recitals showcasing the work of pupils in some memorable performances.

Three main external concerts took place during the year. Ten music scholars took part in a concert in St John’s Church as part of their regular lunchtime series, with solos and ensembles featuring in an impressive overall standard of performances. Coro, King’s 9 and some invited music scholars performed in a very special concert in Winchelsea as part of their long-running Arts festival on a Sunday afternoon in March, to an enthusiastic crowd of supporters. There were some outstanding performances from both the choir and instrumentalists. The much-anticipated Christmas concert was again held in St James’s Piccadilly in early December. As usual, the chamber orchestra joined the chamber choir for a feast of seasonal music in this central London venue.

This year we say farewell to several key music staff. Tim Smedley, head of strings is moving on to become head of chamber music at the Royal Birmingham Conservatoire. He has had a very significant impact on string playing over the past five years, maintaining the high standards and developing further excellence in orchestral work, chamber music and solo playing. Will Ford becomes Director of Music at Wimbledon High School, following an excellent year as head of

JAZZ CLUB RETURNED IN ALL

ITS FORMER GLORY.

THIS YEAR

THE STANDARD WAS TRULY EXTRAORDINARY, WITH OVER HALF THE BAND BEING UPPER SIXTH MEMBERS

lower school Music. The provision and opportunities for boys in years 7 and 8 have been transformational and Will has enabled these young musicians to flourish.

Alex Wilson has been our Music graduate assistant this year and has contributed hugely to so many sections of department life, notably as a superb organist, accompanist and saxophonist. We are pleased that he will be staying on in a visiting teacher capacity to play and teach the organ for one further term.

Julie Mather-Johns has left after nearly fifteen years of dedicated service to the department as Music timetable administrator. She leaves behind an excellent legacy and I know that generations of staff, parents and pupils will be forever grateful for her kindness and assistance. We also say farewell to Alec Boulton, music technology teacher, after ten years of teaching and inspiring pupils.

All in all, this has been a superb year and one in which our boys and girls can be justly proud of their musical achievements.

Symphony orchestra

Chamber choir at St. Paul’s Cathedral

CHAMBER CHOIR KING’S CORO

Organists: Will Ford, Alex Wilson

Director: Daniel Phillips

Treble

Rehan Basu, Marcello Boldrini-Diamond, Hamish Boswell-Kerr, Tom Buckney, Christian Conroy, Gabriel Harper. Keeran Jithendra, Ruben Jithendra, Daniel John, Harry Jones, Freddie Lennon, Milo Lennon, George Macklin (Head Chorister), Teager Meddleton, Ellis Medimorec, Xavi Monaghan, Harry O’Hare, Leo Ogungbemi, Kush Patel, Charlie Russell, Thomas Savege, Henry White, Daniel Xu

Alto

Alfie Edmondson, Alexander Golder, William James, Arvin Kinigama, Maks Mumford, Izzy Staples, Nicholas Steinmeyer

Tenor

Harry Appleby-Taylor (Captina of Choir), Nathan Brann, James Murray, Alexander Reay, William Revill, James Southorn

Bass

Piers Austin-Foss, William Duff, Sanjay Harris, Finn Kearns, Rowan Marshall, Ivo Monaghan, Hugo Robijns, Benjamin Stockil, Walter Thomson, Tait Walsingham

Director: Peter Hatch

Sopranos and altos

Issy Badman, Alex Barnard, Chiara Champeaux, Sofia Committeri, Saskia Edwards, Giselle Gao, Phoebe Gault, Juliet Gray, Ana Higginson, Maria Ivanova, Elaine Kinoshita-Li, Amelia Kong, Zeyna Malik, Bethan Morgan, Maryam Namivar, Matilde Nannizzi, Izzy Nunn, Emma Pardo, Vishaali Ramesh, Odessa Rontogiannis, Charlotte Scowen, Izzy Staples, Sonia Wong

Tenors and basses

Harry Apple-by-Taylor, Alexander Beech, Dean Chaumoo, Lucas Dick, Callum Hendry, Charlie Higginson, Casper Hill, Tyr Hogsander, Thomas Jamieson, Weimin Khoo, Dan Liang, Saranjan Manivannan, Malachy McEvoy, Edward Middleton, James Murray, Sebastian Pavin, Alexander Reay, William Revill, Maxim Selemir, Oscar Stewart, Jack Thomas, William Thomas, Walter Thompson, Eddie Wang, George Wood, Jonny Woodnutt, Alexander Yong Osman

CAMBIATA

Director: Will Ford

Oliver Au, Arvind Benedict, Ben Clarke, Oliver Curran, Chris Dunckley, Kabir Ghosh, Christopher Groom, Nicholas Holder, Xander Insall, Cameron Kipps, Deniz Kocayusufpasaoglu, Alexander O’Carroll, Jack O’Mahoney, Sen Patel, Sam Salwan, Safin Sheikh, Peter Stockil, Adam Watkins, Edward Wawra, Walter Thomson, Tait Walsingham

Director: Richard Bannan

Marlo Alberti, Oliver Au, Kian Bhanji, Maks Blicharz, Stanely Cottrell, Oliver Curran, Seamus Ehrenkranz, Christopher Groom, Nicholas Holder, Alexander Hoo, Oliver Hutton, Arthur Irvine, Deniz Kocayusufpasaoglu, Harry Lane, Oskar MacGillivray, Georges Montefiore, Freddie Moudiotis, Toby Muzalewski, Luke Nunn, Toby Ohta, Luca Palmer, Jake Poghosyan, Marc Rassi, Arjun Sahota, Misha Shybanov, Peter Stockil, Arjun Tahiliani, Edward Wawra, Javi Worthington, Lucas Yu

Lower school chamber choir members

KING’S 9

Director: Will Ford

Harry Appleby-Taylor, Alex Branard, Phoebe Gault, Juliet Gray, Callum Hendry, Izzy Nunn, Alexander Reay, William Revill, Charlotte Scowen, Maxim Selemir, Izzy Staples

LOWER SCHOOL CHOIR

ORCHESTRAS

CHAMBER ORCHESTRA

Violin I James Murray, Sassan Bhanji, Alexander Yong Osman

Violin II Jonathon Cheng, Christina Stoianov, Jai Sarkar

Viola/Violin IIb Alex Barnard, Reis Fernandes, Alex Defterios

Cello I Robyn Liu, William James, Jamie Zweimueller

Cello II Saskia Sierra, Bryan Lai, Desmond Zee

SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA

Violin I James Murray (leader), Sassan Bhanji, Alexander Yong Osman, Christina Stoianov, Emily Jepson, Vishaali Ramesh, Maryam Namivar, Jai Sarkar, Barnaby Maisey, Reis Fernandes

Violin II Jonathon Cheng (principal), Ivan Yurchenko, Ranesh Ratnesan, Aadi Joshi, Noah Gupta-Wright, Shatansu Samal, John Mooney, Dylan Chapman, Arya Joshi, Joshua Reiniger, Nicholas Roets, Arvin Kinigama, Aarvind Benedict, Peter Jarrett, Sebastian Greenhalgh, Hugo Carter

Viola Alex Barnard (principal), Rafael Harper, Phoebe Gault, Alex Defterios, Kwabena Sarpong, Rafael Aram

Cello Robyn Liu (principal), Tamara Gavrilenko, Saskia Sierra, Emma Pardo, Bryan Lai, Jamie Zweimueller, Desmond Zee, Vikram Tandon, Vinicius Greene, San Lee

Double Bass David Lovering (principal), William James, Thomas Savege, Luke Burton

Flute Juliet Gray (principal), Izzy Nunn, Izzy Staples, Naomi Ng, Angie Campbell

Oboe Abbie Beggerow (principal), Fleur Blase, Henry Golder, Isaac Epstein

Clarinet Lucas Dick (principal), Filippo Varda, Oscar Stewart, Thea Little, Helena Bhattacharya, Ethan Yan

Bassoon Thomas Jamieson

Horn Finn Kearns, Nathan Brann

Trumpet Harry Appleby-Taylor (principal), Tom Hunt, Horatio Mackie

Trombone Harry Mawson (principal), Caleb Monk, Ben Clarke, Luke Nunn

Tuba Tyr Högsander

Timpani/Percussion Tyr Högsander, Qasim Choudry, Thomas Constantinou-Hickman, Mr A Wilson

WIND ORCHESTRA

Flute Issy Badman, Alexander Golder, Neo Millar, Yaw Sarpong, Charlie Zha

Oboe Edward Grundy-Wheeler Gutierre

Clarinet Saskia Edwards, Jack Furber, Humayun Husain, Maria Ivanova, Martine Maugüé, Oscar Tostavin

Bass Clarinet Swen Sankoorikal

Alto Saxophone Alexander Annesanti, Edward Pedropillai

Baritone Saxophone Alexander Beech

Trumpet Harry Appleby-Taylor, Finn Casey, Tom Hunt, Nicholas Kram, Oliver Tyler, Samuel Tyler

Trombone Ben Clarke

Tuba Tyr Högsander

Percussion Qasim Choudry, Thomas Constantinou-Hickman, Alexis Raoux

Drum Kit James Desler

Wind orchestra

Symphony orchestra

BANDS

BIG BAND 2021-2022

Director: Andy Bush

Alto Saxophone James Murray, Sassan Bhanji, Alexander Yong Osman

Tenor Saxophone Jonathon Cheng, Christina Stoianov, Jai Sarkar

Baritone Saxophone Alex Barnard, Reis Fernandes, Alex Defterios

Trumpet Robyn Liu, William James, Jamie Zweimueller

Trombone Harry Mawson, Caleb Monk, Ben Clarke

Piano Malachy McEvoy

Guitar Filippo Varda, Nicholas Oldroyd

Bass Jordan Shevchenko, David Lovering

Drums James Desler

ROCK BANDS

Director: Paul Thomas

Qasim Choudry, Conor Fitzgerald, Kaviraj

Karir, Oscar Tostivin, Cam Alder, Teo Asimus

Minnbergh, Marco Castelvetri, Maximillian

Lenkiewicz, Luke Melford, Elijah Moreira, Nicholas Roets, Luca Branton-Speak, Rafael Cooke, Diego Cordova Lopez, Isaac Epstein, Ankit Mukherjee, Mouktik Adhage, Rocco

Castelvetri, Zac Castillo-Bernaus, Jakob

Gordon, Walt Roscoe, Sam Salwan, Oliver Au, Karim Chaabouni, Kabir Ghosh, Xander Insall, Danny Roets, Leon Benito, Michael Fitzgerald, Hugo Tremayne

Full band

MUSIC SCHOLARS’ AND EXHIBITIONERS’ RECITAL

Ben Clarke (Trombone)

Sound An Alarm from Judas Maccabaeus

Nathan Brann (Piano) Fantasia in D minor

Charlie Zha (Flute) Movement 1 – Allegretto Malincolico from Sonata for Flute and Piano

Horatio Mackie (Trumpet)

Carnival of Venice

Gabriel Harper (Piano) Changing Times

Neo Millar (Flute) Cantabile et Presto

Arvin Kinigama (Piano) Prelude and Fugue in C minor from Well Tempered Clavier Book

Reis Fernandes (Guitar)

Spanish Romance Gran Vals

Jamie Zweimueller (Piano) Thunder in Drought Season

Ethan Yan (Piano) Jeux d’eau

Desmond Zee (Piano)

Qasim Choudry (Marimba)

2 Sonatas in A major Kp.208, Kp.209

Yellow in the Rain

William James (Double Bass) Movement 1 - Allegretto from Double Bass Concerto No.1 in G major, ‘The Famous Solo’

Izzy Staples (Flute) Rondo in D major K.184

Izzy Nunn (Flute) Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise

Juliet Gray (Flute) Concerto for Flute No.1

Jonathon Cheng (Piano) Movement 1 – Allegro Maestoso Sonata No.3 in B minor

BRASS PRIZE COMPETITION

Adjudicator – Peter Gane

Matteo Crisafi (Trumpet)

Danse Boheme G. Bizet

Douglas Adams (Trumpet) In Dreams H. Shore

William Watson (Trombone)

Let’s Face the Music and Dance Berlin

Marcus Greenhalgh (Horn) Jam Bouree D. Stowell

James Richards (Trumpet) Funk A. Vizzutti

Ollie Tyler (Trumpet) Baddinage E. Bozza

Sam Tyler (Trumpet) Flamenco A.Vizzutti

Sam Bennett (Cornet) Trumpet Sonata, 1st movement J. Hubeau

Winners

Senior School Winner – Harry Appleby-Taylor - Trumpet Sonata, 3rd movement - J. Hubeau

Senior School Highly Commended – Tyr Hogsander (Tuba) – Rondo - A. Capuzzi

Senior School Commended – Harry Mawson (Trombone) - Smoke Gets In Your Eyes - J. Kern & O. Harbach

Middle School Winner – Ben Clarke (Trombone) - Pièce en Fa Mineur - F. Morel

Middle School Highly Commended – Caleb Monk - Sonata in B flat 1st and 2nd movements - B. Marcello

Lower School Winner – Luke Nunn (Trombone) - Melodious Etude #55 - M. Bordogni

Lower School Commended – Horatio Mackie (Trumpet) - Carnival of Venice - H. Round

Nathan Brann (Horn) - Moonlight Rumba - G. Woolfenden

G.F. Handel

W.A. Mozart

F. Poulenc

H. Round

H. Hammond

G. Enescu

J.S. Bach

Trad. Tárrega

C. Peixun

M. Ravel

D. Scarlatti

M. Peters

D. Dragonetti

W.A. Mozart

F. Doppler

G. Jacob

F.Chopin

WOODWIND PRIZE COMPETITION

Adjudicator – Andrew Webster

Aneesh Rao (Flute) Nocturne in E flat

Charlie Zha (Flute) Allegretto Malinconico 1st movt from Sonata for Flute

Isaac Epstein (Oboe)

Henry Golder (Oboe)

Jack Furber (Clarinet)

Elegie 1st movt. from Sonata for Oboe

Scherzo 2nd movt. From Sonata for Oboe

Allegro Agitato from Three Intermezzi

Josh Law (Alto saxophone) Sonata for Alto saxophone

Lucas Dick (Clarinet) Fantasia Capricho

Juliet Gray (Oboe) Sonata in A minor, 1st and 2nd movt.

Filippo Varda (Clarinet) Sonatina, 2nd and 3rd movt.

Winners

Advanced First Prize – Izzy Nunn (Flute) - Fantasie Pastorale Hongroise - F. Doppler

Advanced Highly Commended – Juliet Gray (Flute) - Flute Concerto 1st movt. - G. Jacob

Advanced Commended – Izzy Staples (Flute) - Rondo K.184 - W.A. Mozart

F. Chopin

F. Poulenc

F. Poulenc

F. Poulenc

C.V. Stanford

P. Woods

J. Menendez

G.P. Telemann

J. Horovitz

Intermediate First Prize – Gus Graham (Alto Saxophone) - Gymnopodie Blue and East Coast Mainline - J. Rae

Intermediate Highly Commended – Ethan Yan (Clarinet) – Sonatina 1st movt. - J. Horovitz, Neo Millar (Flute)Cantabile et Presto - G. Enescu

ORGAN COMPETITION 2022 AT ST. JAMES’ PICCADILLY

Ivan Yurchenko

Rowan Marshall

Fanfare

Lamento

Christina Stoianov Recit de Nazard

Arvin Kinigama

Vikram Tandon

Jonathon Cheng

Herzlich tut mich verlangen

Flourish

Finale – Organ Symphony No.5

Richard Proulx

Alexandre Guilmant

Louis-Nicholas Clerambault

Johann Sebastian Bach

Christopher Steel

Charles Marie Widor

Adjudicator:

Mr Colm Carey (Master of Music of the Chapels Royal, HM Tower of London)

Winner – Ivan Yurchenko

Highly Commended – Vikram Tandon

Organ competition participants with the adjudicator

JAZZ CLUB

Alex Barnard singing Beyond the Sea

Big Band rhythm section

Malachy McEvoy on piano

Jazz in the community CCA group

Fillipo Varda James Desler playing drums with the Big Band

The Big Band trumpet section

Saxophone Group

Senior School Jazz Combo

The Big Band brass section

The Big Band rhythm section

Big band

Malachy McEvoy’s quartet

SIXTH FORM HOUSE MUSIC 2021

James Desler (Drums) All Of You

Izzy Nunn (Flute) Fantaisie Pastorale Hongroise

Jonathon Cheng (Piano) Finale from Piano Sonata No. 2

Filippo Varda (Electric Guitar) Still got the Blues

Malachy McEvoy (Piano) Como Siento Yo

K. Rodriguez

F. Doppler

S. Rachmaninov

F. Varda

Inspired by R. Gonzalez, H. Hancock, V. Young and B. Powell

James Murray (Violin) 1st movement from Violin Concerto No. 3 C. Saint- Saëns

Adjudicator – Carl Jackson

Winner – James Murray (Kingsley)

Senior house music finalists

SENIOR VOICE AND PIANO RECITAL

Sonata in D major K.381

1. Allegro

Justin Zhang and Ivan Yurchenko (piano duet)

2. Andante

3. Allegro Molto

W.A. Mozart

Benjamin Stockil (voice)

Alex Reay (voice)

Arvin Kinigama and Jamie Zweimueller (piano duet)

Walter Thompson (voice)

Izzy Nunn (voice)

Reis Fernandes and Bryan Lai (piano duet)

Vergin, tutto amor F. Durante

Ridente la calma W.A. Mozart

Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op.72 No.2 A. Dvorak

Les Roses d’Ispahan G. Faure

Come to me in my dreams F. Bridge

From Six Morceaux, Op.11

1. Barcolle – Moderato

2. Scherzo – Allegro

Sassan Bhanji (piano)

Nicholas Roets (voice)

Desmond Zee and Vikram Tandon (piano duet)

William Revill (voice)

Harry Appleby-Taylor (voice)

Phoebe Gault and Robyn Liu (voice)

William James (voice)

Izzy Staples (voice)

Ethan Yan and Rui Nabeshima (piano duet)

S. Rachmaninov

Voiles, no.8 from Preludes book 1 C. Debussy

The Turtle Dove

From Six Morceaux

3. Russian Theme – Andante Cantabile

4. Valse – Tempo di Valse

Widmung

Williams

S. Rachmaninov

R. Schumann

The Sigh G. Finzi

Wedding Day at Troldhaugen

E. Grieg, arr. A. Ruthardt

Fear no more the heat of the sun R. Quilter

Nocturne, Op.13 No 4 S. Barber

From Six Morceaux

5. Romance – Andante con anima

6. Slava – Allegro Moderato

Singers with Mark Nixon, piano

S. Rachmaninov

SENIOR SCHOOL AUTUMN CONCERT

Chamber Orchestra (Tim Smedley)

Wind Orchestra (James Rae)

Wind Orchestra (James Rae)

Symphony Orchestra (James Murray soloist, Daniel Phillips)

Sonatine Op.100 – 1. Allegro Risoluto and 2. Larghetto

The Great Escape

A. Dvorák

E. Bernstein arr. J. Vinson

Super Hits of the ‘70s Arr. L. Clark

Violin Concerto No.3 Op.61

1st movement: Allegro non troppo

Symphony Orchestra (Daniel Phillips) Festive Overture Op.96

C. Saint-Saëns

D. Shostakovich

Chamber Orchestra

James Murray with the Symphony Orchestra

Chamber Orchestra

MUSIC FOR ADVENT AND CHRISTMAS AT ST. JAMES’ PICCADILLY

Chamber choir

Soloists: George Macklin, Gabrield Harper, Harry Appleby-Taylor, Hugo Robijns

Chamber choir

Matin Responsory

Magnificat in A

Chamber choir O thou the central orb

Chamber orchestra

Flute soloist: Izzy Nunn

Chamber choir

Suite in A minor

Ouverture – Les Plaisirs I&II – Air a l’Italien - Rejouissance

O come, o come Emmanuel

Chamber choir And I saw a new heaven

Chamber choir

Percussion: Alex Wilson and Harry ApplebyTaylor Gaudete

Chamber choir and Chamber orchestra

Soloist: Henry White

Chamber orchestra

Once in royal David’s city

Sonatine Op.100 1-Allegro Risoluto

Chamber choir and Chamber orchestra Nativity Carol

Chamber choir

Percussin: Harry Appleby-Taylor and James Murray

Tomorrow shall be my dancing day

Chamber choir In the bleak midwinter

Organ solo – Alex Wilson

Postludium on ‘In Dulci Jubilo’

Chamber choir A New Year Carol

Chamber choir

Chamber choir and chamber orchestra O little town of Bethlehem

Giovanni Pierluigi da Palestrina

Herbert Sumsion

Charles Wood

George Phillip Telemann

Trad, arr. Andrew Carter

Edgar Bainton

Trad, arr. David Hill

Henry John Gauntlett

Antonin Dvorak, arr. E. Fine

John Rutter

John Gardner

Harold Darke

Leo Sowerby

Benjamin Britten

Trad. French arr. Mack Wilberg

PIANO PROJECT – WOMEN COMPOSERS AT ST. JAMES’ PICCADILLY

MASTERCLASS WITH CAROLINE OLTMANNS AND PUPILS’ CONCERT

Bryan Lai Allegro moderato, from Four Songs for piano, Op. 8

Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel

Ivan Yurchenko Andante con espressione, Larghetto and Presto, Fanny Mendelssohn Hensel from Four Songs for piano, Op. 8

Alp Kucukyildiz Andante, from Three Romances Op. 11

Alfred Soulier Andante, from Three Romances Op. 11

Reis Fernandes Automne, Op. 35 No. 2

Nathan Thomas Meditation, from Romances sans paroles Op. 76

Robyn Liu Toccata, Op. 39

Nathan Brann Eglogue, from Cinq pieces pour piano Op. 12

Ethan Yan Barcarolle Op. 71

Jonathon Cheng Sevilliana

Arvin Kinigama A hermit thrush at Eve, Op. 82 No. 1

Justin Zhang Young Birches Op128 No. 2

Clara Schumann

Clara Schumann

Cecile Chaminade

Cecile Chaminade

Cecile Chaminade

Mel Bonis

Mel Bonis

Mel Bonis

Amy Beach

Amy Beach Out of the depths (Psalm 130), Op. 130

Vikram Tandon Reverie Pastoralle

Malachy McEvoy Troubled Water

Jamie Zweimueller Vespers in Venice, from Four Piano Solos

Desmond Zee Virtuoso 1

Germaine Tailleferre

Margaret Bonds

Cecilia MacDowall

Jeanne Zaidel-Rudolph

Women Composers Piano Projectmasterclass with Caroline Oltmanns

SINGING COMPETITION 2022AT ST. JAMES’ PICCADILLY

Adjudicated by Carolyn Sampson

LOWER SCHOOL PRIZE

George Macklin A Song of Battle C.V. Stanford

Peter Stockil The Water is Wide trad. Arr. Hayes

Gabriel Harper Ave Maria C. Franck

Thomas Keck Over the Rainbow H. Arlen

Nicholas Holder A Gaelic Blessing J. Rutter

Harry Jones The Water is Wide trad. Arr. Hayes

Milo Lennon A Song of Peace C.V. Stanford

Winner: Peter Stockil

MIDDLE SCHOOL PRIZE

Maks Mumford Proud of Your Boy A. Menkin

Jack Thomas Johanna S. Sondheim

Charlie Higginson Alma del Core A. Caldara

Nicholas Roets Bereite dich, Zion J.S. Bach

Alfie Edmondson A Song of Wisdom C.V. Stanford

Rowan Marshall Ständchen F. Schubert

Arvind Benedict The Widow Bird H. Howells

James Richards At The River A. Copland

Noah Gupta-Wright Dolente imagine V. Bellini

Winner: Arvind Benedict

SENIOR SCHOOL PRIZE

Izzy Staples Nocturne S. Barber

Harry Appleby-Taylor Ich will nur dir zu J.S. Bach ehren leben

Alex Reay Ridente la Calma W.A. Mozart

Aidan O’Donnell The Pirate King A. Sullivan

Sofia Committeri In uomini, un soldati W.A. Mozart

William Revill In Native Worth J. Haydn

Callum Hendry Se Vuol Ballare W.A. Mozart

Walter Thomson Le Veau d’or C. Gounod

Sanjay Harris To Lizbie Brown G. Finzi

Hugo Robijns Leave me, loathsome G.F. Handel light

James Southorn Schlummert ein J.S. Bach

Phoebe Gault V’adoro pupile G.F. Handel

Maxim Selemir If I can’t love her A. Menkin

Winner: Sofia Committeri

SPRING CHAMBER MUSIC CONCERT

Lower School Chamber Orchestra

Junior School Quartet

Violin: Leo Ogungbemi, Bryan Lin, Aaron Hu

Cello: Max Lin

Junior School Quartet

Violin: Natan Sarkar, Ashvin Waegner

Viola: Aaron Hu

Cello: Casper Zee

Lower School Trio

Flute: Charlie Zha, Neo Millar

Piano: Nathan Brann

Lower School Quartet

Violin: Cameron Chapman, Freddie Moudiotis

Viola: Koji Matsumoto

Cello: Luka Cory-Wright

Middle School Trio

Oboe: Isaac Epstein

Clarinet: Ethan Yan

Piano: Justin Zhang

Lower School Quartet

Violin: Batu Buyuksolak, Charlie Zha

Viola: Oliver Hutton

Cello: Gabriel Harper

Lower School Brass Quartet

Trumpet: Horatio Mackie, Luke O’Brien

Horn: Nathan Brann

Trombone: Luke Nunn

Middle School Cello Trio and Piano

Cello: William James, Desmond Zee, Jamie Zweimueller

Piano: Vikram Tandon

Flute: Izzy Staples

Clarinet: Lucas Dick

Piano: Phoebe Gault

Lower Sixth Trio

Cello Quartet:

Cello: William James, Bryan Lai, Robyn Liu, Jamie Zweimueller

Lower Sixth form Quartet

Violin: Sassan Bhanji, Christina Stoianov

Viola: Phoebe Gault

Cello: Tamara Gavrilenko

Sixth form Flute Trio

Flute: Izzy Nunn, Juliet Gray, Izzy Staples

Pavack Trio

The Legend of Deadman’s Cove

P. Martin

Sleep Stealer’s Reel - R. Porter

Methusula’s Deathday Party - R. Stott

U Rock - R. Jennings

Chaconny in G minor

H. Purcell

Trio sonata in E minor for two flutes and continuo

Largo – Allegro

G.F. Handel

Dance Suite

P. Martin

Trio for oboe, clarinet and piano Andante non troppo

E. Destenay

Divertimento in D Andante – Presto

W.A. Mozart

Cantina band J. Williams, arr. T. Lees

Requiem

D. Popper

Tarantelle

C. Saint-Saens

Serenade

G. Goltermann

Quartet in A minor (Rosamunde)

Allegro

F. Schubert

London Trio No.1

J. Haydn

Trio

Clarinet: Lucas Dick

Violin: James Murray

Piano: Jonathon Cheng

C.G. Menotti

Cello Quartet

Lower Sixth Form Quartet

Pavack Trio

WINCHELSEA PROGRAMME

Cantate Domino

Ave Verum

G.O. Pitoni

W.A. Mozart

King’s Coro Choir

King’s Flute Trio

Izzy Nunn, Izzy Staples, Juliet Gray

Piano: Jonathon Cheng

Clarinet: Lucas Dick

Piano: Jonathon Cheng

King’s Nine Choir

The Ground

London Trio No.1 in C major Allegro moderato; Andante; Finale - vivace

Sevilliana

Peregi Verbunk

Down to the River to Pay

Sleep

And so it goes

Lullaby (Good night my angel)

In my life

‘Va Pensiero’ from Nabucco

The Parting Glass

King’s Coro Choir

Saxophone: Alex Barnard

Pavak Trio

Violin: James Murray

Clarinet: Lucas Dick

Piano: Jonathon Cheng

Baba Yeta

Let the River Run

In the Mood

Romanza and Envio from Trio for violin, clarinet and piano

La La Land Medley

Mia & Sebastian’s Theme

Another Day of Sun

O. Gjeilo

J. Haydn

M. Bonis

L. Weiner

Trad. Arr. P. Lawson

E. Whitacre

B. Joel arr. B. Chilcott

B. Joel arr. P. Lawson

J. Lennon and P. McCartney

G. Verdi

Trad. Arr. A. Snyder

C. Tin and C. Kiagiri

C. Simon arr. C.H. Johnson

G. Miller

G.C. Menotti

J. Hurwitz, B. Pasek and J. Paul, arr. M.A. Brymer

King’s Coro Choir

Audition (The Fools Who Dream)

City of Stars

Someone in the Crowd

King’s Nine

Alex Barnard performing a saxophone solo

King’s Coro

Lucas Dick playing clarinet

Juliet Gray playing flute

Sopranos of King’s Coro

James Murray playing violin

Sopranos of King’s Coro

Tenors of King’s Coro

Coro in concert

CHAMBER CHOIR TOUR TO THE ISLE OF WIGHT

March 2022

By Mr Daniel Phillips

Anumber of the boys had had a full day of school on the last day of term, involved in the Partnerships Production. However, nothing dampened their enthusiasm as they gathered early on the first morning of the Easter holiday. Eight junior school boys, ten lower school boys and eighteen middle school and sixth form boys headed on a coach to Portsmouth for the short ferry ride to the Isle of Wight. The sun shone and the sea sparkled and it heralded a spectacular few days of weather. On arrival, the seafront at Ryde beckoned, where lunch and ball games were enjoyed. Then it was off to St Mary’s Church in Carisbrooke to rehearse for the evening concert. Construction of St Mary’s was started in 1070 and the church is mentioned in the Domesday Book. It proved to be both a beautiful place and ideal for singing. Even though the organ was sited at the back of the church, the choir and organ worked harmoniously together in all the various anthems the choir sang. A pizza supper filled the time between rehearsal and concert, by which time the church was well filled. An appreciative audience enjoyed an hour and a half of the choir’s singing in repertoire ranging from Batten and Purcell, through Mozart and on to Bruckner, Vaughan Williams, Stanford and Finzi, The boys sang superbly and professionally in this varied and exciting programme.

The night was to be a short one anyway with the clocks going forward and so the tour party was pleased to head straight back to the hotel before a 7am breakfast on the Sunday morning. Barely had the coach begun to ascend out of Newport when it became clear (thanks to the sixth formers sitting at the back) that the coach had suffered a major air leak from a broken pipe. This meant the coach was never going to be able to make it up the hilly terrain to Ventnor. The choir was due to sing at the morning Eucharist in just over an hour, and the only way to rescue the situation appeared to be to catch the 08:40 island bus service from Newport to Ventnor. However, on arrival at the bus station, this was found to be cancelled due to driver shortage. Phoning most of the island’s taxi companies only resulted in two taxis being available, so parents who were on the island supporting the choir were contacted and, in a fleet of eight more vehicles, the choir made it to Holy Trinity Church, Ventnor. In fact, 80% of the choir arrived in time for the start of the service, even though various contingency plans were in place for a smaller choir to start the service.

The morning service for Mothering Sunday went extremely well with the choir leading the singing with confidence in hymns, psalm, communion setting and motet. The church had stepped in at short notice to host us and they were immensely appreciative of the choir’s contribution to their Sunday morning worship. In return, the choir were equally pleased to share in coffee and cakes after the service.

The day was another of stunning sunshine, so the choir split into groups finding lunch in various supermarket outlets before heading down to the beach and promenade in Ventnor. It really did have a feel of the French riviera about it. The boys enjoyed ice creams and various beach games, before heading back up the hill to the repaired coach which took the choir on to Carisbrooke Castle. An enthusiastic guide introduced the choir to this important place of power and defence for nearly 1,000 years. There was plenty of time to explore the keep, wall walk, chapel and grounds before heading back to St Mary’s Church. A rehearsal for Evensong followed, with a much enjoyed tea afterwards provided by parishioners. Musically, Evensong was the highlight of the tour with some truly exceptional singing with several soloists. The choir was made to feel warmly welcomed by the enthusiastic and appreciative vicar. After Evensong, it was down to a popular bistro by the marina for a hearty supper.

The choir’s singing was all completed, so the final return day was one at leisure. After the ferry crossing to Lymington the boys headed to Beaulieu, home of the national motor museum. Various car displays, including Top Gear and 007 features, monorail and vintage bus rides were enjoyed by all, as well as impromptu ball games. When all the groups met up just before heading back to the coach, the upper sixth led some thoughtful, amusing and well-prepared thank-yous to the staff.

It truly had been a special tour following two years of restrictions, even if it was shorter than previous ones. The boys worked and sang so well together and it was lovely seeing the mixed ages interacting positively and enjoying each other’s company. The five upper sixth pupils were a privilege to take, being exemplary ambassadors for the school and outstanding role models for all the younger boys.

Many thanks to my colleagues Will Ford, Alex Wilson and Sarah Phillips who worked exceptionally hard over the three days and without whom the tour would never have happened.

Middle school at Carisbrooke Castle

Trebles in rehearsal

Lower school at Beaulieu

Lower school at Carisbrooke Castle

It truly had been a special tour following two years of restrictions

James Murray conducting in St. Mary’s Carisbrooke

Lower Sixth on the Wightlink ferry

The choir outside St. Mary’s Carisbrooke The choir outside Holy Trinity Ventnor

James Murray conducts

Leavers’ speech

Lower school boys beside Ryde Pier

Lower school at Carisbrooke Castle

Ventnor beach

ST JOHN’S LUNCHTIME RECITAL

Flute: Izzy Nunn, Juliet Gray, Izzy Staples

Double Bass: William James

Viola: Sassan Bhanji

Flute: Izzy Staples

Clarinet: Lucas Dick

Piano: Phoebe Gault

Cello: Jamie Zweimueller

London Trio No.1

Allegro Moderato – Andante – Finale: Vivace J. Haydn

Introduction and Gavotte Giovanni Bottesini

Romance in A minor Op.42 Max Bruch

Tarantelle Op.6 for flute, clarinet and piano Camille Saint-Saens

Eltentanz Op.39 David Popper

Clarinet: Lucas Dick Time Piece No.4 Robert Muczynski

Cello: William James, Desmond Zee, Jamie Zweimueller

Piano: Vikram Tandon

Requiem Op.66 David Popper

Lucas Dick plays clarinet

Cello and piano quartet

Flute trio

Flute and clarinet trio

The performers

AUTUMN BAND SHOWCASE

4th form rock band

Lower 5th rock band

Big Band

Saxophone quartet

Year 8 band

JOHN EVANS STRING PRIZE 2022

Adjudicator: Jane Gordon

Accompanists: Will Ford and Mark Nixon

Lower School Category

Batu Buyuksolak

Violin

Thomas Savege

Double Bass

Theo Rolfsen

Sonatine in G major, Op.100, 1st movt.

Konzertstuck

Cello Sabre Dance

San Lee

Violin

Horatio Mackie

Gavotte in D major

Violin Orientale

Gabriel Harper

Cello Nina

Charlie Zha

Violin

Ladies in Lavender

Middle School Category

Reis Fernandes

Violin

William James

Antonín Dvořák

Bogusław Furtok

Aram Khachaturian

Johann Sebastian Bach

César Cui

Giovanni Battista Pergolesi

Nigel Hess

Winner: Thomas Savege

Highly Commended: Gabriel Harper and Charlie Zha

The Boy Paganini

Cello Cello Concerto No.1 1st movt.

Bryan Lai

Cello Prelude, Suite No.1 in G major

Jai Sarkar

Violin Violin Concerto in A minor, 1st movt.

Desmond Zee

Cello Allegro Appassionato Op.43

Jamie Zweimueller

Violin

Sonata in A major, 4th movt.

Winner: William James and Jamie Zweimueller

Highly Commended: Jai Sarkar

Eduard Mollenhauer

Camille Saint-Saens

Johann Sebastian Bach

Johann Sebastian Bach

Camille Saint-Saens

Cesar Franck

Sixth Form Category

Alex Yong Osman

Violin

Alex Barnard

Romance No.2 in F major Op.50

Viola Morpheus

Sassan Bhanji

Violin

Robyn Liu

Cello

James Murray

Violin

Saskia Sierra

Cello

Romance Op.85

Adagio and Allegro Op.70

Fantasia in B flat major 1st and 2nd movt.

Prelude, Suite No.1 in G major

Winner: Robyn Liu

Ludwig van Beethoven

Rebecca Clarke

Max Bruch

Robert Schumann

Georg Philipp Telemann

Johann Sebastian Bach

Highly Commended: Sassan Bhanji and James Murray

String Prize prizewinners

KING’S PIANO COMPETITION 2022

Junior and Lower Schools Section

Adjudicator – Mrs Eleanor Hodgkinson

Keyboard Coordinator at the Junior department of the Royal Academy of Music, Senior Lecturer in Piano at Leeds College of Music, Visiting Tutor in Piano at Royal Holloway, University of London and ABRSM trainer and examiner

JUNIOR NOVICES CATEGORY

Winner

Edward Wawra 7HFMM

Barbara Arens – from ‘Rendezvous with Midnight’: No 1 - Moonbeams

Runner-up

Cameron Chapman 8ES

Jules Massenet – Mélodie, Op 10 No 5

YEARS 7 AND 8 CATEGORY

Winner

Nathan Brann 7BDT

Mel Bonis – Eglogue, Op 12 No 4

Runner-up

Kabir Ghosh 8JFO

Christopher Norton – Jingo

Senior Competition

Senior Section

Adjudicator – Mrs Hanlie Martens

Pianist and Head of Keyboard at Solihull School

OVERALL WINNER OF THE SENIOR SECTION AND CUP

Desmond Zee L5G

OVERALL BEST SPOKEN INTRODUCTION

Malachy McEvoy U6MAC1

Senior Novices Category Winner

Joshua Cheong U5A

Frédéric Chopin – Nocturne in C sharp minor, Op posth.

Runner-up

Dylan Chapman L5K

Florentine Mulsant – Prelude No 14 from 24 Preludes

Commended

Peter-Gabriel Adjetey L5MAC

Claude Debussy – Page d’album

Faress Sabbagh L6L1

Edvard Grieg – Arietta, Op 12 No 1

SENIOR DUETS CATEGORY Winners

Vikram Tandon L5M and Desmond Zee L5G

Sergei Rachmaninoff – from 6 Morceaux, Op 11:

3. Russian Theme – Andante cantabile

4. Tempo di valse

Runners-up

Jamie Zweimueller 4M and Arvin Kinigama 4L

Antonin Dvorak – Slavonic Dance in E minor, Op 72 No 5

Reis Fernandes L5L and Bryan Lai L5K

Sergei Rachmaninoff – from 6 Morceaux, Op 11:

1. Barcarolle – Moderato

2. Scherzo – Allegro

MIDDLE SCHOOL CATEGORY Winner

Desmond Zee L5G

Frédéric Chopin – Scherzo No 2 in B flat minor, Op 31

Runners-up

Vikram Tandon L5M

Franz Liszt – Sposalizio from Années de Pèlerinage Book 2: Italy

Ivan Yurchenko U5G

Frédéric Chopin – Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23

Commended

Jamie Zweimueller 4M

Cecilia MacDowall – from Four Piano Solos (1999):

2. Vespers in Venice

Ethan Yan 4G2

1. Moritz Moszkowski – Etincelles (Sparks), Op 36 No 6

2. Gabriel Fauré – Nocturne in E flat minor, Op 33 No 1

SIXTH FORM CATEGORY

Winner

Jonathon Cheng U6G1

Frédéric Chopin – from Sonata No 3 in B minor, Op 58: 1 - Allegro maestoso

Runners-up

Malachy McEvoy U6MAC1

1. Jazz Improvisation

2. Margaret Bonds – Troubled Water

Robyn Liu U6K

Frédéric Chopin – Ballade No 1 in G minor, Op 23

Commended

Phoebe Gault L6L

1. Camille Saint-Saens – Gavotte from Pour le piano

2. Gabriel Fauré – Barcarolle No 1 in A minor

Helena Bhattacharya U6G

Claude Debussy – Prelude No 4, Book 1: Les sons et les parfums tournent dans l’air du soir

SUMMER ENSEMBLE CONCERT

Concert Band

Big Screen Fanfare

Junior School Guitar Ensemble Batman TV Theme

Colours of Day

Senior School Guitar Ensemble The Siamese Cat Song

Raindrops Keep Falling On My Head

J. Rae

N. Hefti

S. McClellon

L. Burke

B. David

Cambiata

Round on “I’m Gonna Sing / Oh When The Saints / Swing Low”

Soualle

Lower School Choir Rainbow

Lower School Flute and Piano Trio

Lower School Brass Quartet

Divertissement Grec

March from Funeral Music for Queen Mary

Lower Schoool String Quartet Barcarolle

Year 7 string Quartet Chanson de Nuit

Lower School Chamber Orchestra Evening Prayer from hansel and Gretel

Trad.

Trad.

K. Musgraves

P. Gaubert

H. Purcell

J. Offenbach

E. Elgar

E. Humperdinck

Concert Band

Cambiata

Flute duo

SENIOR SCHOOL SPRING CONCERT 2022 AT ST. JAMES’ PICCADILLY

Senior Chamber Orchestra

Les Caracteres de la Danse

Prelude – Courante – Menuet –Bourrée – Chaconne – Sarabande – Gigue – Rigaudon – Passepied –Gavotte – Sonata (First part) – Loure –Musette – Sonata (Second part)

Jean Féry Rebel

Wind orchestra

Wind orchestra

Symphony orchestra

Piano soloist: Jonathon Cheng

Gallowgate

Highlights from “La La Land”

Piano Concerto No.1

2nd movement: Quasi adagio, and 3rd movement: Allegretto vivace

James Rae

Justin Hurwitz b.1985 arr. Michael Brown

Franz Liszt

Marche héroïque Opus 34

Camille Saint-Saëns

Symphony orchestra

Jonathon Cheng with the Symphony Orchestra

Concert Band

Chamber orchestra

Percussionists of the Concert Band

A YEAR OF KING’S DRAMA 2021 – 2022

By Miss Davina Barron

DRAMA HARD TIMES

The King’s Drama department were delighted to welcome back full audiences for the first of two big productions in autumn 2021. After a short but intensive rehearsal period, a cast and crew of twenty-two sixth formers presented a dynamic theatrical version of  Hard Times, adapted by James Trapmore. Codirected by Miss Feeny and Mr Trapmore, and driven by the performance of Roemer Lips as the dry and dictatorial Mr Gradgrind, and Henry Chamberlain as the despicable Bounderby, the company adopted a bold physical style to tell this tale of the vexed relations between parents and children, workers and factory owners, facts and imagination. The adaptation of the original text was sparkling, the acting and direction fantastic and the whole thing clearly hugely enjoyed by all!

Gradgrind (Roemer Lips)

The Mineshaft (Ensemble)

Bounderby & Mrs Sparsit (Henry Chamberlain & Martine Maugue)

Gradgrind Jr and Ensemble (Caelan Landers & Chiara Champeaux)

DORIAN

KCS Theatre Co. enjoyed stellar success at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival in 2022 with their new production Dorian (directed by Miss Davina Barron and devised by the company) receiving countless 5-star reviews and sell-out performances.

The show is a striking and stylised imagining of Oscar Wilde’s gothic masterpiece: The Picture of Dorian Gray transforms into malevolent horror as its inspiration remains untouched and beautiful. This supernatural gift begins a dark descent for Dorian as he recklessly pursues pleasure and vice, leaving destruction in his wake: thrilling drama, daring movement and music combined to bring this visceral new production to life.

PROFESSIONAL REVIEWERS SAID:

“A mini masterpiece – 5 stars!”

“Many have tried… this adaptation is one of the best.”

“Conroy is spectacular in the role of Dorian…”

AUDIENCES COMMENTED:

“Leaving the Fringe after 25 shows, but this one will be the one we are still talking about.”

“Hard to fault, 5 stars! Best show (out of 30) we’ve seen…”

“Spectacular performances from this young company…”

“By far the best show we have seen at the Fringe this year. Outstanding.”

Many have tried… this adaptation is one of the best.”

Dorian (Tom Conroy) and the Soul (Hugo Robijns)

Dorian (Tom Conroy) and the Painting (Hugo Robijns, Sasha Barinsky, Ella Gallagher, Dean Chaumoo)

Original cast recording is available on iTunes & Spotify

The Sixth Form Play was Ike and Macmillan’s adaptation of Orwell’s chilling classic, 1984. The original text is discussed in a book club, allegedly taking place in a new society developed long after its publication. But soon, the line between the story’s narrative and this modern world becomes blurred. The talented cast and production team worked incredibly hard to bring this complex and thrilling tale to life, with particular praise to Jonny Woodnutt and Odessa Rontogiannis as the directors, and Romee Tiffou and Louis McEvoy in the lead roles.

DRAMA REVUE

As a final celebration of the year, the King’s dramatists reunited after the black-tie Drama Dinner to put on an impromptu Drama Revue: everyone was quite surprised at the high quality of performances! From some hilarious King George renditions, through beautiful ballads to some incredibly professional jazz band turns (and the inevitable full company rendition of One Day More), it proved a wonderful way to say goodbye to our talented leavers.

Drama Revue company

House Plays Festival 2022

We were delighted to welcome back a panel of OK judges this year: Laura Trosser, Marta San Basilio Maldonado, Aoife Parr and Izzy Johns, who during their time at school had been heavily involved in both curricular and co-curricular drama in the sixth form, and went on to pursue various dramatic pursuits. They praised the incredible passion, creativity and collaboration of the companies, and celebrated the huge array of dramatic choices and expert execution.

The House Plays Festival proved an absolute triumph of passion and perseverance, as the creative work of 100 students graced the stage. Kingsley’s  Good Will Hunting showcased several powerhouse performances of raw, honest emotion; Alverstone’s Journey’s End was a triumph of thoughtful direction, creative design and ensemble; Glenesk’s  Community brought some joyous anarchy to the stage – their fast-paced hilarity proved pitch-perfect. Layton’s  Murder on the Orient Express balanced comedy with looming threat to deliver a taut and impactful ending; Maclear’s The History Boys portrayed teenage posturing and fragility with great energy, pace and hilarity; Major closed the evening with a beautifully crafted ensemble telling of Steinbeck’s classic  Of Mice and Men, tearing on our heartstrings mercilessly and leaving us breathless at the final gunshot.

Panel of OK judges awarded the following:

Best Play: Major, for Of Mice and Men

Best Performer: Raphael Henrion (Kingsley) for Sean in Good Will Hunting

Best Direction: Jonny Woodnutt and Mya Downing (Alverstone) for Journey’s End

Alverstone - Journey’s End

Kingsley - Good Will Hunting

Glenesk - Community

Layton - Murder on the Orient Express

Maclear - History Boys

Major - Of Mice and Men (Winners of Best Play)

MATILDA

For the first time ever, the middle school and lower school collaborated on a musical production, with over ninety students auditioning for a place, and a large company of fifty five taking part as actors, musicians and technical crew in Matilda. Tim Minchin’s musical adaptation delights at every turn: it’s playful, wicked, heart-breaking, joyous, and wonderfully imaginative, and the highly creative and playful company took every opportunity to make it their own. Every little moment, from the hilarious adlibs of the Wormwoods to the precision of the object manipulation, was a joyous process and it was inspiring to see students from four year groups working so beautifully together on this production.

Mr & Mrs Wormwood (Harry Jones & Sal Swinburne)

Miss Trunchbull (Barney Lewis)

Matilda & Miss Honey (Chris Dunkley & Nick Steinmeyer)

Bruce Bogtrotter (Thomas Savege)

ROALD DAHL’S FANTASTIC FICTION

The lower and middle school drama clubs and technical theatre clubs united for the first time to present a collection of tales inspired by the magical and macabre stories of Roald Dahl. Over ninety pupils collaborated in this incredible undertaking, and presented seven delightfully dark pieces of theatre. The packed audiences were treated to The Witches, The Landlady, Genesis and Catastrophe, William and Mary, and The BFG (from the lower school), followed by Danny the Champion of the World and an original piece based on Dahl’s own life called The Garden Shed (from the middle school). Each piece was collaboratively devised, designed, performed and stage-managed, and in some cases, entirely written, by the pupils themselves. It proved to be a wonderful showcase of talent, imagination and dedication of the dramatists.

Matilda full cast

THE HUNCHBACK OF NOTRE DAME

The astonishing company of The Hunchback of Notre Dame (cast, band, technical team, assistant directors) together made this one of the most collaborative, creative and courageous ventures of recent years in King’s Drama: five unbelievable performances, several standing ovations and a host of awestruck audience members – all the staff who had the pleasure to work with the company on the production felt incredibly privileged and humbled by the students’ passion, generosity, dedication and talent.

Twenty six pupils reunited in April 2022 to perform a twenty minute montage in honour of Andrew Halls, to whom the concert hall was being dedicated. It was beyond magical to see the beloved characters back in action and enjoy the soaring, beautiful score once more: the students enthralled and amazed an audience of delighted fellows and esteemed guests. “Absolutely extraordinary.” (Christopher Luscombe, OK and previous director for RSC and National Theatre).

Audience reflections:

“Joyous! Heartbreaking! Visionary!”

“Outstanding across the board - so professional in every way.”

“Truly it is like the West End!”

“11 out of 10… best production I’ve ever seen or ever will see.”

“The best ensemble show I’ve seen in years – lost for words - an inspiration to all…”

Full cast

Gargoyles backstage

THE BEST ENSEMBLE SHOW I’VE SEEN IN YEARS – LOST FOR WORDS - AN INSPIRATION TO ALL

TRULY IT IS LIKE THE WEST END

Frollo (Hugo Robijns) and Ensemble

Quasimodo (Will Thomas)

Esmerelda and Phoebus (Ella Gallagher & James Southorn)

ACADEMIC

L6 A Level Devising (Dorian Gray)

The A-level devising group’s adaptation of Dorian Gray brought to life the darkness of the late-Victorian era in the grotesque and unnerving style of Steven Berkoff. ‘A young man of extraordinary personal beauty,’ Dorian Gray becomes the fascination – and obsession – of a Gothic London, the backdrop of his tragic fall from grace. Six performers and one lighting designer worked together on this exceptionally creative and collaborative venture, providing thrills and chills in equal measure for an enthralled audience!

L6 A Level Devising

Fourh form Duologue Competition

Twenty seven boys were selected to compete in the final: the boys gave a terrific account of themselves, delivering performances that were by turns hilarious, thought-provoking and very moving. Our adjudicator was the actor, director, writer and producer Robert Cavanah. Robert gave an inspirational talk about the power of the arts and the achievements of the boys, before awarding Reilly Olsen and Amaury Miklichansky-Maddocks the runners-up prize for their poised, natural performance from Constellations. The overall winners were Scott Hawkings and Patrick Bouche for their terrifying evocation of 1984

U5th GCSE Devising

The upper fifth GCSE devising students have been working diligently all term towards their devising examination performance: inspired by this term’s musical Hunchback, they took on as a stimulus a quote from the show – “what makes a monster and what makes a man?”. They devised a wide range of responses, dealing very sensitively and maturely with the material, and working beautifully together to perform and design four original pieces.

U6 IB Transformation (Wuthering Heights) and L6 IB Scenes (Much Ado About Nothing)

The IB DP Literature and Performance pupils recently presented a showcase of their drama work. It began in the Drama Studio with the upper sixth, who staged Unquiet Slumbers, their atmospheric, passionate and physically inventive ‘transformation’ of the novel  Wuthering Heights by Emily Bronte. The lower sixth then launched into scenes of bickering love rivals from Shakespeare’s  Much Ado About Nothing. The action spilled out of the Drama Studio, into the International Garden and across to the Cotman Gallery, with the audience promenading in pursuit! After some flashmob swing dancing, further hilarious scenes of slapstick played out in the theatre, which was beautifully decked out to suggest the glitz and Gatsby-esque glamour of the roaring twenties.

U5th GCSE Scenes

The upper fifth GCSE Drama pupils presented their examination scenes in Collyer Hall at the end of April. They performed extracts from celebrated, challenging dramatic texts with great commitment, plunging the audience into interrogation rooms, the tense world of hit-men, dystopian futures, a poker game and the bickerings of the metropolitan elite.

U5th GCSE Devising

L5th GCSE Scenes

Tucked away in the intimate and moodily-lit Drama Studio, the lower fifth GCSE Drama pupils performed scenes of grief, ambition, fear and damnation from Doctor Faustus by Christopher Marlowe and A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness and Adam Peck. Supported by an audience of peers and staff, the pupils summoned high levels of emotional intensity and delivered strongly ensemble-driven work for their practical assessment.

CRICKET

By Mr Tom Gwynne

We have known for some time that cricket at King’s has the potential to not only put out lots of competitive teams, but also for those teams to start beating some of the most established schools. This was certainly epitomised in our Saturday block against Dulwich College where not only did

U14 Cricket 2022

By Mr Tom Gwynne

This was a hugely successful season for a talented cricketing year group that regularly fielded four competitive teams.

The A team had a fantastic year winning 15 of the 18 fixtures that they played. The impressive thing about this group was their ability for numerous individuals to put in match winning performances throughout the season. If one or two of the team did not score many runs on a given day, you could rest assured that someone else would stand up to be counted. This allowed them to get off to an impressive unbeaten start to the season where they also progressed well in the cup competition. However, the first defeat did come to a strong Whitgift side after a below par performance which saw us knocked out.

Excellent victories against Dulwich, Tiffin, St John’s and Trinity followed and a place in the Hobbs trophy final against Epsom College after beating strong teams from The Leys, Ardingly College and Forest School. Unfortunately, Epsom just pipped us to the post in that one.

Noah Luxman displayed a great temperament at the top of the order and scored many useful runs, Max Rawlinson performed superbly

we field 18 sides throughout the day, we also won 14 of those fixtures. The following Saturday saw sixteen teams out against St John’s, Leatherhead and Shrewsbury House School, and this time we amassed fifteen victories. The U17A cricket side progressed to the regional semi-final of the national competition where they were beaten by Harrow. The U16A retained the King’s cup by beating Hampton and Dulwich College while the U15A side knocked Whitgift out of the county cup on the way to beating Epsom College in the final to become County champions. They then beat Whitgift again in the ESCA National Cup to reach the Surrey finals day which they went on to win by beating Reigate Grammar in the semi-final and Cranleigh in the final. After beating the Sussex champions Eastbourne College in the next round, they qualified for the regional finals where they were eventually knocked out by Norwich School –an impressive achievement. The U13A won the Reigate 6s tournament, coming out on top of the 24 schools that entered. We have recently fielded U13E, U13F, and U12E teams in fixtures.

with the bat and the gloves and proved that he is a talented cricketer. Rafi Brech played a couple of magnificent innings while Leo Dickinson picked up an impressive five wicket haul.

The Bs also had a superb season, highlighting the strength in depth in the year group. The standout moment was Sam Patton and James Turner sharing a monster partnership to both score unbeaten centuries against Emanuel. Tobin O’Donnell also scored some valuable runs throughout the season. There were also big wins against RGS Guildford and St George’s Weybridge as well as a nail biting 3 run win against St John’s Leatherhead.

Dillon Rai was in the runs regularly for the U14Cs whose most impressive wins came against Trinity and Emanuel. They often lost players to the B team throughout the season but this did not deter them from putting in some excellent performances that pleased Mr Kent.

The Ds were a less experienced side but their approach to training and fixtures was admirable and this led to some stark improvement as the season progressed.

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3rd XI Cricket

By Jamie Brooker

Stopford, Sam; Wall, Matty

Played 6, Drawn 0, Won 3, Lost 3

Results:

Reed’s School

Hampton School

RGS Guildford

Dulwich College

St. Benedicts

Hampton School

Won by 6 runs

Lost by 8 wickets

Lost by 18 runs

Won by 8 wickets

Won by 8 wickets

Lost by 54 runs

Just like Ben Stokes’ England captaincy, 2022 saw a new era for 3rd XI cricket. After a two year hiatus from the sport, all were thrilled to see the 3rds taking back to the field, to see the excitement of what the school’s “production line” could cultivate this year.

The season got off to a sublime start, utilising every material at our disposal to take a well-deserved win against Reeds. Ashwin Gunaseelan’s 69*, carrying the bat, saw the team to a respectable 163, with a tight bowling performance securing the win. Unfortunately, this is where the season saw a turn for the worse. The loss of some key names to both exams and higher teams, saw the 3rds plagued by a run of bad form. We travelled far and wide experiencing a range of pitch standards, from the championship standard of Kingsway pitches to 10yd boundaries at Hampton, who played host to the two most disastrous losses of the season. After making the journey on a dreary Wednesday afternoon, we could only muster

127 with the bat, an innings which finished with a flourish of a 6 from the bat of Aathi Somanathan. With the consensus indicating we were 40 under par, Hampton chased it down with two overs to spare, fuelling the fire for the awaited return.

A loss to RGS at the hands of their 2nd team player, saw a passionate line up walking out to face the eight men of Dulwich for the next fixture. Tight bowling from Ben Herbert and Charlie Gilchrist, helped to restrict the opposition to 152. Still with a monumental task ahead, Pitblado and Gilchrist accelerated the score with an electric start, paving the way for Kellen Morris’ heroic 51* off 42, secured off the final ball, to secure the second win of the season.

A depleted team, owing to call ups from the seconds, skittled St. Benedicts for 58, then proceeded to chase it down in 6 overs. A dominant performance.

Although the return to Hampton didn’t

prove victorious and the team was obviously disappointed with the record at the end of the season there were glimpses of brilliance seen all over the field. Kellen Morris played a few nice innings, showing his quality as a middle order batsman. Zac Arney was often seen at cover with his trademark dives, tipping catches over the bar and Sam Stopford, was a revelation behind the stumps.

Even through all the chopping and changing, the difficult set of results and pressures of exams, Mr Kane was the backbone of the team, and taught us all the true meaning of 3rd team cricket. The ‘legends’ as he called us would’ve provided any spectator with an entertaining game and kept all fans on the edge of their seats. What a team!

Most Improved Player: Jamie Brooker Player of the Season: Sam Stopford

Squad: Arney, Zac; Atwal, Abhay; Austin-Foss, Piers; Bhogal, Sachin; Brooker, Jamie; Chaddah, Garv; Chamberlain, Henry; Clarke, Ben; Coovadia, Thomas; Desler, James; Fontes, Leo; Gallagher, Ella; Gilchrist, Charlie; Gunaseelan, Ashwin; Heatley, Harrison; Herbert, Ben; Hewes, Will; Jarrett, Peter; Jones, Rhys; Ketteringham, George; Kulukundis,Ted; Little,Thea; Morris, Kellen; Newland, Cian; O’Donnell, Aidan; O’Regan, Cian; Phanish, Adithya; Pitblado, Kaspar; Rai, Abhai; Somanathan, Aathi; Spencer, Joshua;

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U12E Cricket

Senior Cricket 2021

By Mr Tom Gwynne

The season began with great optimism as the Covid regulations from the previous year were relaxed and school cricket began to feel normal again.

After a long winter of preparation, the 1st XI season got underway with a residential trip to Eastbourne College to take part in a pre-season festival. This proved to be perfect preparation for our opening block fixture which was an excellent 20 run win against Reed’s thanks to a brilliant bowling display to defend our total of 191. Further Saturday wins against Dulwich, Tiffin and St John’s were well deserved, but it quickly became apparent that our batting was often being rescued by some impressive bowling and fielding displays. This was painfully evident when we performed superbly to bowl Hampton and the MCC out for less than a 100, only to fall short in both run chases. Occupying the crease for long periods of time will be a big area of focus next season.

Seth Eley captained the side brilliantly and again took over 30 wickets. He also scored a magnificent century at Tiffin. Vihaan Weerasinghe proved to be a very useful all rounder and his leg spin saw him return an impressive 33 wickets, while James Southorn was our most consistent run scorer. Adam Fox and Oliver Richards both broke into the side as U15s and their opening partnership looks to be a promising one for the future while the group says goodbye to a long serving group of U6th in Hugo Nicholls, James Southorn, Zohair Irtiza-Ali & Freddie Johnson.

The 2nd XI had a strong season, recording some eye-catching results along the way. They quickly became a well-balanced side that had a habit of ensuring that different individuals made match winning

contributions at different times. Drew Bone, Finn O’Hare, Jake Denny and James Taylor made key contributions with the bat while Freddie Eriksson’s 6 wicket haul against Trinity was the standout performance of the season with the ball.

The 3rd and 4th XI had their usual fixtures at either end of the season, and it was again brilliant to see large numbers of pupils representing the school. Some excellent games against Reed’s were the highlights and it was particularly pleasing to see some U6th returning to cricket for the first time in several years.

With a talented group of middle school pupils coming through, the future looks bright for senior cricket.

Reigate 6s

U15 ESCA Champions

GOLF

By Sam Griffin

The King’s golf team enjoyed a good season on the golf course this year. The season began with the usual entry into the Independent Schools Golf Association Cup. King’s improved on last year’s performance by making it into the second round of the cup competition, eventually losing out to a very strong Harrow School team. There was another rise in the numbers for the Golf games option, with plenty of students taking to Wimbledon Common to play on a Wednesday afternoon. Plenty of friendlies were played this year with the golf team taking on schools such as: Harrow School, Dulwich College, Caterham School, Wimbledon High, Hampton, and Westminster School.

Special mentions must go to U6th leavers; Kalyan Reddy, Yusuf Sarwar and Charlie Gilchrist, who have represented the King’s golf team for a number of years and represented the school so brilliantly!

ATHLETICS

We took 28 pupils to the ESAA Track and Field Cup in May – including 13 from the lower school. Ben (L5K) came second in the 100m, as did Andreas (L5L) in the 200m. The junior 4 x 100m relays team of Harry (8JFO), Oscar (8OJV), Luke (8OJV) and Joshua (8JFO) came first and Harry (8JFO) also won the 800m. Sam (7BDT)came second to the UK no. 1 in the 1500m. We also took 11 athletes to the Surrey Championships (representing Merton). Emmanuel (L6A2) came second in the 100m final, Charlie (4M) came second in the 1500m, Harry (8JFO) came third in the 800m final (running a year up). Most of our athletes were competing against other athletes a year older which bodes well for the future!

The Sports Day and House Olympiad results are below:

Senior School Sports Day (4th, L5th, L6th)1st–Layton –227 points2nd–Major –2253rd–Kingsley –1914th–Glenesk –1855th–Alverstone –1526th–Maclear –122

House Olympiad Results1st–Glenesk –199 points2nd–Layton –1723rd–Kingsley –1714th–Alverstone –1625th–Major –1596th–Maclear –151

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TABLE TENNIS

By Mr Luke Yates

It has been another successful year for table tennis where we have not only seen good results across the years, but the school’s highest ever participation numbers. With 120 lower school boys signing up to the club, it was inevitable that we were going to be able to field a strong team within the U13s South London League. With the boys playing the likes of Whitgift school and Wallington

Grammar, it was an outstanding achievement to finish the overall league as runners up. The U16s and U19s also did an excellent job representing the school against some of the best schools in London and played some high-level table tennis along the way. A special well done and thank you to Parth Gupta and Leonardo Russo, who have represented the school throughout their time at King’s and who have been great role models to the younger players coming through the ranks.

Another special mention to Francesco Bonato, who had a great run in the London South Finals tournament.

The season would not have been so successful without the commitment and effort from all the boys involved. They have worked hard in training to try and improve but most importantly, they have had fun whilst doing it. I have no doubts that the boys will build on this success in the years to come. Well done, table tennis.

ROWING

Hopes are high on the waterways for the Boat Club in this upcoming regatta season, and in particular the school’s flagship 1st VIII boat not only have a crew that has vast experience from their lower sixth year, but also their times on both ergos and the river. At the recent National Schools Regatta at Eton & Dorney Lake the 1st VIII rowed tremendously well throughout all of the rounds to claim a bronze in the final, and the J18 coxless IV won a superb gold in their category. Last week the 1st VIII raced to a record breaking semi-final at Henley Royal Regatta, losing out to a strong St Paul’s crew but agonisingly close to an appearance in the final. At every stage, the commentators noted their fine technique, but also their sportsmanship and approach. There were significant numbers of pupils competing at J14, J15, and J16 in what was a fabulous weekend on the river.

By Samuel Scowan

This year has been an unprecedented success for the Boat Club, with new heights and boundaries reached for everyone involved.

We kicked the year off with wins in both the junior coxed and coxless fours at 4s Head Of The River, a rare and impressive feat for any club. This was followed by a set of decent results, including consistent medal placings and wins at the minor events continuing the season.

We were sad to finish 4th at Schools’ Head, when our aim was to win. However, the ability of the squad to bounce back after the upset and topple the dominan t winners later that year was special, because it needed resilience and faith we’d not exhibited before.

National Schools’ Regatta featured a brutal final in which we snatched a bronze medal in the dying moment in the final. The 4-, our second boat, also won a historic gold in championship 4s, the first senior championship gold medal in Boat Club history. It all called for major celebration that night, but once the dust had settled we were back, hungry for the PE cup at Henley. Henley was probably the best part of the season, making it to the semi-final, and narrowly missing out on the final to the eventual winners. I was particularly sad when we lost, not because we’d lost but because it was all over. Nonetheless, it was a phenomenal result for the school, and one that will be remembered forever.

We also sent record numbers of trialists (both boys and girls!) into the GB system, a set of on and off the water assessments around the country, resulting in junior international racing for Great Britain. In May we had four athletes in Munich, taking home six medals between four of them and two golds. The squad is likely to have athletes racing across Europe in Italy and Spain for the Junior World and also Junior European Championships this summer. There was no secret to our success academically, and athletically. We just enjoyed our craft, and were supported to a massive extent by the rest of the club, family, and coaching staff. Thanks for a great year!

By Aniket Garg

This year, the J16s went through highs and lows on our mission to become the fastest crews in the country. Our career began at Teddington Head in November 2021, where we came a very respectable 2nd and 3rd. Since then, we’ve pushed ourselves continually on the ergos, on the water and in sessions in the gym. Across Quintin Head, Hampton Head and Hammersmith Head we got even better (despite an unfortunate encounter with a Latymer crew at Hammersmith), leading to the 1st VIII coming 1st and the 2nd VIII coming 4th in their respective divisions at the prestigious Schools’ Head of the River Race, the largest school-age head race in the UK which finishes off the head season.

The most memorable part of the year, however, was the Easter residential camp to Enniskillen, Northern Ireland.

The week we spent rowing there had a massive effect, as the crew bonded and improved by leaps and bounds, despite battling the weather at times. We then came back swinging for Wallingford Regatta, and soon began building up to the biggest race of the year for us at the National Schools’ Regatta, playing a delicate balancing act between our GCSEs and training.

Just a few days before the big race, disaster struck! Two of the rowers in the 1st VIII were unable to race, with the 2nd VIIIs’ rowers stepping up to fill the gap. Although we were able to call on Angus, a reserve, for the first gap, we had to call on Tom, a rower who had left earlier on in the year, to come back on the day of the race to fill the other slot in the 2nd VIII. Even though the crews we now had were quite different to the one we had been training in for weeks, we still came 2nd and 4th in our finals, beating the odds. This brilliant result is a testament to the crew’s perseverance and relentless drive. Our careers finished off at Marlow Regatta, in June 2022. As ever, we are immensely grateful for the incredible coaching of Dr Whitelaw and Mr Blake!

SENIOR GIRLS’ SQUAD

By Bea Frediani

With this season coming to a close for the Senior Girls’ rowing squad, it’s fair to say it’s been another challenging, but rewarding one.

We hit the ground running in September with six new lower sixth members of the squad, and as the novices took their first strokes, the seniors got cracking with winter training. Our first outing of the season was Fours Head, where the 4x finis hed an encouraging 19th of 42 crews, laying down a benchmark for the season ahead.

For the rest of the winter, we moved back into small boats, pushing each other to get faster by doing our training pieces side by side, or chasing one another down the course

to practice the time trial format. We finished our work in doubles with a race at Hampton Head, with both doubles racing well, and we definitely enjoyed rowing through some other crews! Just before February half term, our new Empacher quad arrived from UL, so we were all very excited to get training in it. Hammersmith Head was a great opportunity for a race down the Tideway course, while our final fixture before Schools Head, with the Imperial novices, was eventful, with plenty of blade clashes getting us fired up for the big race. We raced hard at Schools Head, ending the head season on a high, and were excited to move into regatta season!

The lead-up to National Schools’ Regatta offered the opportunity for a change of

discipline, from sculling to sweep, for our pair – Naomi and Bea – while Kate focused on building speed in the single. A strong performance in the time trial from the pair put them into the A/B semi-final, with Kate narrowly missing out, placing 17th of 42 crews in the time trial. Following a conservative race in the semi-final, the pair went on to place 3rd in the B final, coming from behind off the start. Kate raced hard in the C final, placing 8th – an extremely impressive achievement given how competitive the single sculls’ category is! With just Kingston Regatta left for us to race, we say goodbye to our upper sixth rowers, and look forward to hitting the ground running next season, building on our achievements of the 2022 season!

Girls pair

Naomi and Kate Ball Cup 2022

J15 1st VIII race Schools’ Head

Senior 1st VIII racing Henley

By Miss Julia James

We have a thriving and enthusiastic J14 squad. This season has been about learning the basic sculling stroke, the values of teamwork, discipline and hard work. The pupils have been involved in numerous events, including three “domestic” events against local rivals St Paul’s, Dulwich and Westminster, and we enjoyed a victorious day out at the local Chiswick Regatta where our two octos came 1st and 2nd. We also had a quad compete.

Over the Easter holiday the boys were able to train at Dorney Lake, where they also competed at the Scullery and the National Schools’ Regatta narrowly missing out on making it into the finals. This year has seen a record number of 56 students training during both games and the extra sessions we offer.

J14s summer regatta

Senior 1st VIII HRR boat tents

By Ben Hughes

It’s been an interesting year for the J15s, with some really good head race results, and some slightly less dominant regatta racing. We started the year racing in sculling boats at Teddington Head, our first head race of our (hopefully long and successful) rowing careers, and came away with an unexpected win after having ploughed through the pairs in the division before us. Next came the move into the eight and learning to sweep, which produced a reasonably well-oiled eight ready for the start of the racing season in late January at Quintin, with a 2nd place finish. This

was followed up by a 1st place at Hampton and Hammersmith Heads in the eight, as well as a surprise 2nd in a scratch quad at Hampton, showing the quality of sculling that Dr Winchester had somehow managed to instil in us. Finally, our head season finished off with a strong 3rd place at School’s Head of the River. Quickly onto the next portion of our year, the regatta season, a four, a single and a double all trialled to represent Thames London at a national competition which both the four and single were successful in doing. Soon enough came the Easter camps where big steps were made, making use of the glass that Dorney Lake can be. Coming back to

somewhere that felt very familiar, the 1st VIII were back for Wallingford where we came 5th, shortly before National Schools’, where we had a bit of a slump at the most unfortunate of times. Luckily we had a final opportunity to redeem ourselves at Marlow Regatta where we ended up finishing with a very respectable 3rd place, and our fastest time of the year for a 2K, 6:35 despite some less than favourable conditions. None of this year would have been possible without the hard work and effort put in by our coaches, Dr Winchester and Mr Williams and so a massive ‘thank you’ is in order.

J16 2nd National Schools’

J16s Boat Club dinner

J16 2nd National Schools’

J16 2nd Kingston

TENNIS

By Mr Ben James

The tennis programme has thrived under Ben James’ stewardship with the U14, U15, and U16 age groups all finishing a very respectable 3rd place in Surrey for the Independent Schools League. The Surrey Festival results were equally impressive with semi-final places for U12 all the way through to U18. The U12s and U14s are set to make the Surrey League Finals, with hopefully more age groups following suit. Finally, our Roland Garros Family Fun Event attracted a remarkable 64 parent and child pairs in the first Saturday of the half term break, indicating that SW19 really is the heartland of tennis in England!

U18 SQUAD

Alexander Adair, Archie Adams, Sam Barnett, Sassan Bhanji, Felix Billington, Connor Briggs, Ryan Cahalan, Xavier Cooke, Alexis Droulers, William Duff, Charles Feniou, Nicholas Harder, Casper Hill, Theodore Ilic, Thomas Jamieson, Kieran Johnston Bustos, Louis McEvoy, Edward Middleton, Kingsley Muir, Cameron Paterson, Charlie Phillips, Nicholas Pleasance, Victor Ramsey, Ranesh Ratnesan, Kasper Skrumsager, Peter Stevens, Faress Sabbagh, Jordan Shevchenko, Oscar Stewart, Walter Thomson and Tyler Yates

U12 SQUAD

Ayden Amin, Kian Bhanji, Theodore Bhuia, Maks Blicharz, Charlie Brooks, Giulio Buanne, Rocco Castelvetri, Zac Castillo-Bernaus, Harry Chase, Luka Cory-Wright, Enrique Del Rio Virseda, Charlie Dey, Giovanni Di Nisio, Daniel Fisch, Samuel Garner, James Geijtenbeek , Hassan Hassan, Jacob Hillier, Gyaan Johal, Misha Katanov, Sanjit Kumar, Eliott Lespiau-Curial, Oliver Lovett-Turner, Horatio Mackie, Koji Matsumoto, William Moret, Freddie Moudiotis, Abhigyan Mukund, Toby Muzalewski, Alex Oussedik, Daniel Panna, Luca Palmer, Jonathan Plith, Marc Rassi, Hugh Richardson, James Shaw, Misha Shybanov, Ryu Sjogren, James Stewart, Santi Swinburne, Gleb Terekhov, Yigit Ture and Kirill Zakharyan.

U15 SQUAD

Ahyan Adatia, Yaroslav Ananyev, Luca BrantonSpeak, Diego Cordova Lopez, Rafael Cooke, Alexandre de Blic, Reis Fernandes, Maxime Fery, Rawad Hamdan, Daniel Hunt, William James, Aaron Juma, Zac Kershaw, Julian Ketelsen, Matthew Knight, Bryan Lai, Ethan Lim, William Lord, John Mooney, Robert Moriarty, Ankit Mukherjee, Aaryan Parkash-Mair, Anton Pearce-Kulyk, Lucas Pearl, Noah Pfander, Tomo Razmilovic, Kwame Sarpong, James Snook, Michael Tobin and Jarred Townsend

U16 SQUAD

Ty Alam, Edward Amor, Angus Barker, Ryder Bisset, Ned Cox, Ben Curtis, Jasper Dhala,

Valentino Di Bon, Juan Pablo Dominguez

Muñoz, Adrien Donin de Rosiere, Luke Fitzgerald, Jack Furber, Gus Graham, Luke Horncastle, Rex Levitt-Malik, Kareem Obeidat, Rory Reid, Alex Rough, Zayan Sheikh, Aidan Thompson, Max Tismer and Max Webber

The U15s have an abundance of talent. They endured a great campaign in their block fixtures but failed to get over the line in the Surrey League as they lost out in many a tight game to some very strong sides. Their attitude and commitment to the programme was exemplary and it was superb to see so many pupils attending club and improving their games considerably.

The U18 boys had a highly successful campaign. The lower sixth and upper sixth combined to great effect across the season as the boys played host to many great block fixtures. It was a thoroughly rewarding season as they managed to achieve some of the best results as a group for years, making the last 16 of the nationals at Eton and making the semi-finals of the Surrey League, which is still yet to be played. Special mentions must go to three members of the upper sixth who drove the programme forward for years and leave the tennis programme in a great spot, Nikolaj Skrumsager, Alessio Di Bon and Andrei Reid as well as the U16s of Max Webber and Adrien Donin de Rosiere.

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Arthur Fery, Wimbledon

Senior School Tennis

Senior School Tennis endured a fun and dynamic term, with fantastic numbers at clubs and on the weekends for school fixtures. There was singles, doubles and mixed doubles competitions throughout the year groups which were played at a brilliant level. Highlights were the Roland Garros tournament which was a big hit across all age groups with 64 parent and child pairs participating in the event. There were picturesque views a plenty as the stunning King’s backdrop played host to vigorous practices and fiercely thought competition.

U12A Tennis

The U12s had a splendid season. Mixing mass participation with our ability to compete at the highest level was always going to be tricky, however it was great to see so many pupils representing the school. Mr Yates ran this age group with great success, giving the students an abundance of opportunities to compete and challenge themselves. Helped by Mrs Alberry and Mr Nicholas the pupils experienced fun dynamic lessons in which they improved through a sequence of lessons. As a group the U12s remained unbeaten throughout the season, winning impressively in all their block fixtures. It was also capped off in style as they were crowned Surrey League Champions, the team of Luka Cory-Wright, Kirill Zakharyan, Samuel Garner, Daniel Fisch, Enrique Del-Rio Versida and Charlie Dey must be commended for their great efforts.

Doubles work

Kirill Zakharyan, Enrique Del Rio Virseda, Daniel Fisch, Charlie Dey, Samuel Garner, Luka Cory-Wright

U13s Eton

U13 Tennis

The U13s also endured a good campaign. Miss Rawlings’ great management saw the students secure four out of their six friendly wins. They faced a tough task in their Surrey League group and despite some fantastic efforts got knocked out in the group stage. One of the highlights of the term was certainly their house tennis event, where all pupils who had chosen tennis participated in a fabulous afternoon down at Kingsway. It was fantastic to see so many students playing and choosing the sport this term and I thank them for their great efforts throughout. Special mentions must go to Nicholas Oliveira, Ray Owen, Theodore Rolfsen and Teager Meddleton for their efforts at the top end.

U14 Tennis

The U14s also had a successful season, they came out on top in all but two of their block fixtures. It was great to see the new boys adding to the strength of the year group, helping push the standard at both club and during games. The 14s age group went from strength to strength as the season went on. They showcased their talent with some excellent crafty doubles performances which saw them reach the Surrey Finals Day, after a convincing 9-0 win against Hampton they met a strong St George’s outfit in the final, eventually losing out on a tie-break in the last match. Nonetheless, it was certainly a very positive campaign for the boys. Special mentions must go to Alexander Annesanti, Nicholas Kram, Harvey Webber, Fabian Lenkiewicz, Benjamin Slattery, and Charlie Kolff who played a vital role at the forefront of the year group.

Talha Akhtar, Miron Ananyev, Omar Ansari, Leon Benito, Oscar Cadwaladr, Tristan Coady, Matteo Crisafi, Oliver Curran, Xavier Critchlow, Miguel De Lacerda Ruiz Casaux, Christopher Groom, Freddie Hagon, Noah Hayward, Matteo Herbst, Harry Hull, Konstantinos Kyriazis, San Lee, Charlie Maguire, Teager Meddleton, Ritik Mukherjee, Luke Nunn, Nicolas Oliveira, Ray Owen, Theodore Rolfsen, Harry Runeckles, James Spoto, James Stephens, Harry Taylor, and Oscar Tostivin.

Alexander Annesanti, Teo Asimus Minnbergh, Luke Belderbos, Enrico Berchicci, Kaan Celikcan, Qasim Choudry, Finn Cruickshank, Charlie de Vise-Craig, Davide Di Conno, Alfie Edmondson, Louis Grodner, Sam Hogan, Charlie Kolff, Nicholas Kram, Owen Lawrence, Fabian Lenkiewicz, Tom McGraynor, Alexander Munro, Leonardo Nannizzi, Alex Oozeerally, Vittorio Patrone, Sam Pegler, Safin Sheikh, Benjamin Slattery, Teddy Stowe, Sal Swinburne, Charlie Thomas, Ben Torrance, Louis Trabaud, Raoul Tull and Harvey Webber

RUGBY

The return of rugby

Patiently we waited for rugby to return, and it certainly feels as if we have been rewarded by the pupils. The senior rugby squad set off on their travels to Derby on 18th August for five days of preseason training in readiness for the term ahead. This has proven incredibly beneficial as the 1st XV are unbeaten in all weekend fixtures thus far, in fact topping the Daily Mail table at half term above such esteemed company as Wellington College and Sedbergh. The 2nd XV have followed suit with impressive performances against St George’s and Wimbledon College to name just two. Sadly, there was a close defeat in the Schools Cup against a strong Hampton team, but this has seen the first team now enter the Plate Competition with high hopes of getting to the latter stages in the spring term. The U15 and U16 age groups have enjoyed some success across all five teams in those two year groups with the emphasis being on development ready for rugby in the sixth form. The other major success of the rugby programme right now is the U14 age group where numbers are slightly fewer post-Covid than what we had hoped for, but the level of performance is way beyond

Davis Cup fun

that of the last five years. The A team have been marvellous in all outings, most recently beating strong Cranleigh and Reigate Grammar sides. We are continuing to develop the wider squad with one eye on next year’s National Cup competition. The new enlarged lower school have very much enjoyed playing rugby, and even when we gave the pupils some choice in terms of their Games options, c.170 of them stayed with either the contact or non-contact versions of the game. We are hopeful that in the latter we will be holding a touch rugby festival after half term to give those players that important feeling of representing their school. Preseason had two very important strands at the tail end of the summer holidays; the first being to get the pupils contact-ready after such a long time away from the sport, but also to upskill the staff in terms of officiating due to the absence of a whistle –fortunately, we could call upon the services of Ben, OK 2021, to make sure that we were up-to-date with laws and competent out in the middle of the pitch. Ben is quickly rising through the refereeing ranks and we look forward to charting his progress in years to come.

FOOTBALL

The last time we embarked on a full summer term of sport was 2019 which has meant much excitement from staff, pupils, and parents alike. The summer term did however start with a spring term hangover of three football finals in a week for our senior boys. The 1st XI had made it through to both Trinity and London Cup finals, with the 2nd XI also making the Trinity Cup final in their respective competition. The 1st XI got the week of football off to a fantastic start on the Tuesday evening, winning the London Cup on penalties against Dulwich College. The Thursday evening of the same week saw both senior teams in action, with the 2nd XI remarkably winning on penalties with only 10 men for the majority of the match against City of London School. Sadly, the 1st XI could not repeat Tuesday night’s heroics, and lost 3-1 to Alleyn’s. It capped off what was quite the football term in the spring, and was a fitting goodbye to departing head of football, Gavin McGowan.

ISFA Cup Football

We made a decision this year to enter the under 13s, 15s, and 18s into the national football competition, and whilst this presented us with some tough logistical and selection decisions, it has very much been worth the work involved–in many ways, it showed how collegiate the sports have become within the department with both football and rugby first teams playing their respective cup matches on the same Wednesday afternoon. The under 18s were unlucky to lose 1-0 to Kimbolton in the second round after a great vict ory against Tonbridge School in round 1. The under 13s also departed the competition in the second round to a very strong Trinity School team, but the under 15s are through to the third round in November.

OTHER SPORTING OPPORTUNITIES

Basketball, golf, cross-country running, badminton, table tennis, and squash have all seen competitive action against other schools giving even more pupils at King’s that shared experience that only a sports fixture can give you. The LISBA League is back up and running for our basketball players and we have high hopes to qualify as many year groups as possible to the play-off finals in the spring term. Golf’s popularity has grown throughout the nation, and this is certainly evident in the King’s community with lots of pupils playing. A recent friendly fixture against Wimbledon High School was

a real highlight of the term. Badminton has become a staple of the sporting diet here at King’s for many pupils, and competitive opportunities have arisen against the likes of Tiffin and Hampton to name just two. We are always searching for tournaments and fixture opportunities for those that choose the ‘minor’ sports in our free choice programme, as well as a big drive of putting the E back in PE –we want King’s pupils of all years to come to their Games afternoons to learn a new skill, be physically worked, as well as socialise with friends.

LOWER SCHOOL

The lower school were given the option cricket, tennis, and athletics for their Games lessons this term and we have seen an even spread between the two core sports of cricket and tennis. This bodes incredibly well for future middle school teams, with the priority now for Tom Gwynne to find well-matched fixtures for those boys who are in our C, D, and E sides. As ever, we will continue to look to play two schools in a day to stand by our ethos of performance and participation for all pupils.

GIRLS’ SPORT

Girls’ hockey and netball

Hockey remains the core sport in the autumn term for the girls and we are pleased to report that numbers are healthy enough for us to field three strong teams –the largest cohort for five years. The 1st XI captained by Tilly (U6K) and Charlotte (U6A) have grown throughout the term with standout performances against Woldingham and Gordon’s. The 2nd XI’s main highlight was a great performance and result against Reed’s school, and they have been superbly coached by Miss McGinley and Miss Rawlings.

The boys have been focussing on the indoor programme, and managed to get through to the London Indoor Finals to play against

some of the best schools in country. They should be proud finishing 4th overall. I look forward to seeing them perform when boys’ hockey becomes a major sport next term.

Very much like the football and rugby programmes, the girls have had to balance their hockey commitments with the county and national netball tournaments. Numbers to before school netball practice, swimming sessions, and athletic development work in the gym have been very good.

Hopes are high for lots of teams out playing next term, as well as some well-deserved success on the netball courts.

GIRLS’ FOOTBALL

Girls’ football is one gain in the headlines during the summer term with a hard fought 0-0 draw against Putney High, followed up by an excellent 5-4 victory versus St George’s College. At the time of writing there are still fixtures to be played against Trinity School and Guildford High.

Girls’ tennis

By Mr Ben James

U18 GIRLS’ SQUAD

The U18 girls battled hard across their block fixtures. Whilst we were often left frustrated by opposition numbers the girls always made the most of every opportunity. The improvement across the term was fantastic and it saw them go from strength to strength, ending the term in good fashion at the National Schools. The highlight of the term would be the intra mixed doubles events as well as the doubles competition at St George’s Weybridge as King’s were the only team to compete with 2 mixed pairs. Special mentions must go to Manu Villa Topple, Isabella Atwell, Anna Farmer, Eloise Broyden and Bella Swinburne.

Isabella Atwell, Issy Badman, Eloise Broyden, Angie Campbell, Eloise Davies, Alex Defterios, Saskia Edwards, Anna Farmer, Giselle Gao, Olivia Hulton, Sienna Jacobs, Lara McColm, Flo Murphy, Emma Pardo, Saskia Sierra, Allegra Simionato, Isabelle Skilton, Izzy Staples, Christina Stoianov, Rebecca Sweeney, Bella Swinburne, Manu Villa Topple

LANGUAGES

FRENCH POETRY COMPETITION “

The annual internal fourth form French poetry competition based on Jacques Prévert’s poems, took place in June with our assistants Jeanne Ruiz and Antoine Escoffier acting as judges and the following boys were victorious with their impressive poetry writing skills.

First Prize  Gheorghi Castelli - “Chaque”

Second Prize Antoine Dubreil - “La pluie”

Third Prize Alex Chokin - “Le Témoin”

CHAQUE MATIN, JE ME SUIS LEVÉ,

Je ne savais pas pourquoi, Mais je l’ai fait tous les matins.

Chaque jour, Je suis entré à la salle de séjour, J’ai regardé la télé, Mais je ne pouvais pas t’oublier.

Chaque midi, J’ai bu un pastis, En espérant que tu vas retourner, J’ai fini de rêver.

Chaque soir, Je suis allé dans le jardin, J’ai regardé les étoiles, Et j’ai pensé à toi.

Chaque nuit, j’ai mangé des biscuits, et j’ai pleuré, car j’étais tellement fatigué.

Gheorghi Castelli

LA PLUIE

Perles d’eau, elles se déversèrent, Dansantes sur la joue de la figure pâle, Du jeune conscrit expirant, Son corps baignait dans les douces odeurs Des tendres primevères, Elles ne titillaient plus ses narines, Mais semblaient être un souvenir D’un passé bien paisible,

La tache rouge-cerise sur sa jeune poitrine Sécha rapidement au soleil couchant D’un soir de printemps, Laissant le pigment cramoisi de la vie, Maintenant imbibé dans le tissu blanc de la paix

Les nueés tombent, Et les gouttes se couchent dans les champs, Comme les délicates larmes, Versées dans ces près d’antan.

Toin

LE TÉMOIN

Comme chaque soir bizarre

Je l’ai encore repéré

En entrant le musée

En tenue d’un quotidien étranger

Je ne savais pas

Qui il était ou qu’est-ce qu’il a voulu

Ou qu’il a projeté vraiment

De voler tous qu’il a vu

Il a ouvert la porte

Avec un clef de sa poche

Puis avec une torche à la droite

Et une carte à la gauche

J’ai posé des questions

J’avais peur de lui

Qu’est-ce qu’il fera

Maintenant, à minuit

C’était la dernière fois

Quand je l’ai vu

Même aujourd’hui je me demande

Qui était cet inconnu

Alex Chokin

FETE GASTRONOMIQUE

La fête gastronomique is hosted every year in the Dalziel room by the Modern Languages assistants, as a Christmas present to the sixth form students for all their hard work during the term. They bake, flip, cook, and fry to create all sorts of delicious dishes from their respective countries and create a festive atmosphere with music and decoration. This year was as successful as ever, as it was the first since Covid, and many hungry and curious pupils came to savour the delights of the middle table. Miss Montserrat Kidwel

GERMAN POETRY COMPETITION

Thanks go to Alex Barnard and Sander Meenan for helping to judge this year’s German poetry competition for lower fifth, in collaboration with our German assistant Ines and Mr Starrett.

The results are as follows:

First Prize  Fred Anderson

Second Prize Ben Fisher-Russell

Third Prize  Samson Green

Gedicht über die Familie

Mein kleiner Bruder ist ein Clown, Am liebsten möchte er fernsehschauen!

Mein Vater kommt aus Schweden, Ich kann auf schwedisch nicht so gut mit ihm reden. Meine Mutter kann alles am Besten, und kann auch gan gut Vokabeln testen.

Wir wohnen alle zusammen unter einem Dach, aber unser Hund Giacomo hält uns sehr oft wach.

Fred Andersson

FRENCH DEBATE

The annual French debate took place in Q6 to debate the motion “Les gouvernments sont la clé dans la lutte contre le réchauffement climatique” and all the contestants assembled raring to go. The audience started off small, but people trickled in throughout the debate to have a full room by the end. We started off with our introductions and everyone was a bit timid, however once we got going with the cut and thrust of the debate, no one was holding back! The quality of the French in terms of accuracy and content was some of the best seen at a language debate at King’s and everyone made incredibly pertinent and eloquent points, all very relevant to the motion. The participants in the team arguing for the motion were: Ben Birch, Ollie Reid,

Angie Campbell, and Charles Hume (Jeanne’s team) and the motion against had Saskia Edwards, Fleur Blasé, Matty Wall, and Harry Stokes (Antoine’s team). In the end, the vote was left the floor and the motion for won seven votes to two, compared to the vote before the beginning of the debate (two for the motion vs 1 against). Of course, we would like to give out a special mention to the French assistants (Antoine and Jeanne) who mentored their respective participants and gave up lots of time helping to structure each team’s points; their work is much appreciated!

Charles Hume

L5TH SPANISH POETRY COMPETITION

The annual lower fifth Spanish poetry competition took place at the end of January and the results from the jury - which consisted of Giselle Gao and Toby Weston (L6) and our Spanish assistant Miss Lecointre - were’ as follows:

First Prize:  Emiliano Gallenzi

Second Prize: Saahan Kapoor

Third Prize: Zachary O-M

LA SAL Y LA PIMIENTA

La Sal y La Pimienta

Empiezo a cocinar

Con las especias guiándome. Veo la sal y la pimienta. Una pareja en el estante, Que despiertan la comida.

Espolvoreo la sal,

Como un niño emocionado con purpurina. Como las estrellas en el cielo nocturno, Iluminan las papilas gustativas. Tan simple, pero complicado.

Y la pimienta. Un sabor rico y terroso; Con una gran profundidad de sabor, Después de crecer para muchos años.

Y la semilla de pimienta triturada, como una lata indefensa en la calle.

¡Pero detente!

Demasiado y está arruinado.

La sal y la pimienta nublan las papilas gustativas, El sabor es fuerte y opresivo. Son las estrellas y los demonios de cocinar.

Saahan Kapoor

CAQUI

Caqui, Tu piel naranja, Y tu forma rechoncha, Tán actractiva; Tú… Eres perfecto.

Pero quiero degustar Tu pulpa colorida, !eres irresistible! Debemos cortarte, Lo siento.

Pero soy Curioso, Del regalo

De tu color Fogoso.

Mi familia está Esperando para probar Tu gusto dulce, Para refrescarse.

Te quiero, pero Tengo que Asesinarte. Lo siento, caqui; Lo siento.

Emiliano Gallenzi

JOUTES ORATOIRES 2022

James Southorn and Hugo Robijns won the final of the  Joutes Oratoires on Wednesday evening at the Institut Francais. This was a tremendous achievement and a real highlight of the year to see them win.They won their first two rounds against King Edward School and Winchester fairly comfortably and their last motion was ‘Si tu veux la paix, prépare la guerre’ where they were up against a strong Haberdashers’ team.

Particular thanks go to their teachers, but also of course our brilliant French assistants, Jeanne Ruiz and Antoine Escoffier, who have worked so hard with them and helped them to prepare.

Mr James Ross

SPANISH NATIONAL DEBATING COMPETITION

The Spanish National Debating Competition was held at King’s College School this year and we took over the New block. Language ambassadors greeted the 13 visiting school teachers and pupils in reception and ferried them to the new hall, where other lower sixth formers were waiting to seat them at their table for a supperclub introduction to the evening. The Tom Constantinou-Hickman Band entertained everyone with Spanish tunes and around 100 teachers and pupils enjoyed a paella supper and wine courtesy of Chris Hull’s team. The debates that proceeded this were fierce, lively, controversial and extremely entertaining. Latymer Upper beat Haberdashers’ Boys in the Silver final and Charles Hume and Giselle Gao were pipped to the winning post by the girls at North London Collegiate School, who won a two-week residential trip to Salamanca sponsored by Mester Language School. King’s won a voucher to cook Spanish food courtesy of the Spanish Ministry of Education. An enormous thank you goes to María Antonia García Rolland de la Consejería de Educación en el Reino Unido, Judith Parker (Head of Spanish) from Wimbledon High School and Mark Stables from the King’s Maths department for taking time out of their busy schedules to judge one or both of the finals and spend a long evening at school.  Miss Montserrat Kidwell

EUROPEAN DAY OF LANGUAGES

The European Day of Languages was back this year on an extremely sunny Thursday 23rd September.

Language ambassadors, teachers of their maternal/paternal languages or entertaining the rest of the school with their musical and dancing abilities.

The lovely King’s parents raised more than £3,000 on their colourful stalls for their chosen charities ranging from The Children’s Trust in Tadworth, Just Giving to Ebony Horse Club. The schedule for the day:

• a tutor group quiz greeted both the senior and lower school with a password competition and treasure hunt for the junior school

• ThejJuniors and lower school took advantage of the day to dress up in national dress.

• The Highlight of the day – THE MARKET PLACE. The pupils tried out their languages

whilst purchasing some freshly-made croissants, savoured some German Schokoküsschen, tried their hand at the Spanish raffle to win the latest ‘La Liga’ football whilst eating Tapas and Alfajores and of course not forgetting the delicious lunchtime Pizza rush Italiana (which were sold out within 5 minutes this year) con San Pellegrino.

• 145 year 8s performed a French flashmob to the traditional 1976 Eurovision song “un, deux, trois” by Catherine Ferry in front of the great hall and in front of the whole school at 11am.

• Some teachers of Maths, Music and humanities taught their lessons in another language.

• At lunchtime there were 15-minute Language taster sessions led by some very dedicated and amazing pupils and staff. The pupils could try Norwegian, Greek, Russian, Portuguese, Turkish, Italian and Hungarian, and be fluent in an hour?!

• Safin warbled his Edith Piaf sounds accompanied by Tom C. Hickman on keyboard and Nick Harder on Spanish guitar outside the Great Hall to the delight of all those spectators that demanded an encore many times.

The next European Day of Languages will be in September 2023 but this was the last one with the original cast of lead parents. I wish to thank them all so very much for their support over the years, each of them have been one in a million and this day would not have been possible without their generosity, ingenuity and above all, kindness to the King’s community. It is very sad to see Mrs Cartledge, Mrs Henrion, Mrs Gugelmann and Mrs Di Siena no longer at the helm but we welcome the new community of family members who will and have already started to continue their legacy. Miss Montserrat Kidwell

The Italian Stall

The German Stall

Les viennoiseries

The Spanish stall The Marketplace

Pizza pranzo

Greek lesson with Anthony, Ted and Nick

Safin and Thomas

CCF

Ghyll running in the Lake District

DofE expeditions with the CCF mascot

Canoeing on Derwent water

A DofE expedition in the North Downs

Eating in the field before the Night Hike

Canoeing on Derwent water

Remembrance parade

ARMY

Our detailed briefing on Monday prepared us well for our day at Longmoor Army Range near Eastleigh. It was a fantastic opportunity for us to experience the destructive force of the British army’s current weapon of choice, the Royal Ordinance’s standard issue SA80 assault rifle. Our brief was to operate in short bursts of rapid fire (each being afforded twentyfive rounds) to achieve consistent tight groupings in the target area over one hundred metres. We are all looking forward to many more opportunities in future years.

After our exploits with the SA80, our visit to the Royal Tank Regiment in Tidworth was no less exciting. We were instantly struck not only by the advanced technology but also the claustrophobic conditions within which the crews have to operate in the current Challenger 2s. The experience of the simulators provided a vivid insight into the working operations of BAEs 3rd generation battle tank. After an exciting day we left with sincere thanks and good wishes to our hosts for upcoming deployment in Eastern Europe.

James Snook, lower fifth

On Thursday, we were able to put our rigorous fieldcraft lessons to use in a paintball arena. Initially we were split into two teams, red and blue. As the games panned out, the red team took an early lead but the blues fought back valiantly. After a quick refuelling of both paintballs and pizza, the teams headed out to the final game. Although both teams fought strongly, the reds eased their way into the lead and eventually became the champions of the day.

On our final day of activity week, we visited the National Army Museum, where we were given the chance to explore the numerous, vivid, and fascinating exhibits and present a talk on a topic of our choice. These detailed presentations ranged from the evolution of knives, guns, and uniforms to the use of music in war time. This concluded our activity week, but it would not have been possible without the incredible CCF team, so a huge thank you to Mr Bradley, Ms Brown, Mr Painter, Mr Mitchell and all the other staff who made this week possible!

Jarred Townsend, lower fifth

Army camp in July

Army camp in July

Army camp in July

DofE expedition in the North Downs

NAVY

By Leading Seaman Greg Samodelov

The Navy CCF is delivering training in leadership, seamanship, navigation and much more. It has been brilliant, and it is so good to be back after a year’s hiatus. Here is the year in a nutshell.

Dan Liang, a lower sixth Able Seaman joined the school, and the Navy CCF, in 2021. Most cadets join in the lower fifth, but this year we have had two cadets who joined the Snr. Cadet team –Dan and Bethan.

“I joined Navy CCF this year and I have thoroughly enjoyed Friday afternoon’s activities, no matter whether it’s teaching chartwork to the upper fifth or playing water polo in the swimming pool. Despite not having any experience with CCF or King’s, I found myself getting quickly acquainted with fellow cadets. This has been an enriching and unique experience, and I am very much looking forward to continuing in the Navy next year. “ Dan

Liang

The year brought the first Trafalgar Night Dinner for two years, which saw the departure of Captain Stanley, and the 39th anniversary of our contingent commander’s tenure at the school –Commander Mitchell. It was a great evening for all, and a perfect chance to catch up after so long away from CCF.

Duke of Edinburgh expeditions were also back on the schedule and went smoothly. I am writing this as a lower sixth cadet who has now completed the DofE Gold expedition, and it was really just great fun to be out walking and camping with friends again. It was also a good chance for many to finish off their DofE Silver awards before moving onto gold, as other components were achieved over Covid, but the expedition could not be.

As a Leading Cadet I have started to teach lessons and have thoroughly enjoyed this. At the start of the academic year the lower sixth completed a ‘Cadre’, which teaches us how to take lessons and lead other cadets in practical leadership exercises. The way that this has prepared us to teach others, and really engage them comes together every time we take lessons. Those who took part in the ‘Cadre’ are pleased

with their achievement, but also grateful for the opportunity to learn from experienced staff members on how to teach.

In the future, Navy cadets will be looking forward to courses as summer draws nearer, either running at Britannia Royal Naval College in Dartmouth, Jupiter Point on the South Coast, or adventure training in the Highlands. In the meantime training, service and camaraderie will continue at the core of the King’s College School Royal Navy section.

Boatwork in Portsmouth harbour Navigation in the Solent

Over the water on the assualt course

Boatwork in Portsmouth harbour

Coming back from the Isle of Wight

RAF

By

The The RAF Corps were allowed to bounce back into a full year of training in the 2021-2022 academic year. 16 new lower fifth and one lower sixth joined us this year to commence their journey within the RAF. Throughout the year, a number of cadets joined our NCO team: Piers Austin-Foss, Lucas Dick, Finn Dovey, Yaw Sarpong, Oliver Quant and Alex Ludlow were all promoted to lance corporal. Aidan Weymouth, George Vernon-Evans, and Mario Bredicean to the rank of corporal. Archie Ackerman and Luc Barrier to the rank of sergeant, and Jonathon Cheng in command as flight sergeant.

The new lower fifth cadets made a strong start to the year, learning basic foot drill, how to prepare their uniform and how to work in a team. All 16 pupils passed their first class exams; this will allow them to take part in Air Experience Flights,

visit RAF bases and attend Air Cadet courses. Along with the other sections they took part in a range of adventure training activities including: the first Fling exercise on Hankley Common, the night hike and the adventure training camp in the Lake District.

Particular congratulations must be given to the upper fifth cadets, who were impacted significantly from the COVID-19 pandemic. They worked at break-neck speed to catch up on syllabus, drill and field work training. Their

enthusiasm was astonishing throughout. Notably, Cadet Constantinou-Hickman was selected for the prestigious Air Cadet Leadership Course which he will attend over the summer holiday.

To prepare for the handover of leadership of the section from our current senior NCOs, the lower sixth took part in the ‘Leadership Cadre’, learning the core principles of teaching, and public speaking.They also passed their leading and senior cadet exams. These qualifications will allow them to teach the RAF syllabus effectively to new cadets.

The annual Night Hike gave the cadets a chance to practise their night navigation and leadership skills. Building on these skills, several cadets completed their gold and silver Duke of Edinburgh awards.

I see much promise in the younger years in their capabilities to become future leaders. The RAF section has much to look forward to in the future.

Flight Sergeant Jonathon Cheng, upper sixth

Ghyll running in the Lake District

RAF cadets on a Puma helicopter

RAF cadets insde a Puma helicopter

CLUBS AND SOCIETIES

With over 100 clubs running this year the King’s community was kept busy. Here is a highlight of just some of them...

CHESS

By Mr Oliver Vella

The A chess team have had a spectacular season of this year, which saw them defeat our rivals RGS Guildford and Hampton School. With 5 wins and 1 loss, Ranesh Ratnesan, Luca Buanne, Shahvez Ali, Diego Cordova-Lopez, Rajeiv Ratnesan and Hari Stewart, lead the team to victory in the Briant Poulter Surrey Schools League Division 1. With this historical win, King’s will treasure the division 1 chess shield for one year and they will defend it next year.

Along with the success the A team have had in the local league, King’s qualified for a place in the U19 National Chess Finals which was held at Crowne Plaza Stratford Upon Avon this year. Mr Vella drove the team up for two days of chess against other notoriously talented teams from Westminster School and Haberdashers’ Boys’ School to RGS Guildford and Eton College. The pupils played 5 rounds of chess, each one lasting at least an hour in length, sometimes two. On the first day of the competition, King’s played Eton College, RGS Guildford and Westminster. The King’s pupils won quite comfortably against both Eton and RGS and drew against Westminster. By the end of the first day, King’s were top of the table on tiebreak points.

On the second day, King’s played Haberdashers’ and they drew whilst Westminster won their match against Queen Elizabeth Boys’ School. It was a nail-biting final round because with Westminster on 4 wins and King’s on 3, King’s very much needed to win against St Olave’s and required Westminster to draw or lose their final match against Haberdasher’s for King’s to win overall on tiebreak points. King’s won their match against St Olave’s 3.5 : 2.5 however unfortunately for King’s, Westminster won their match 4 : 2.

Westminster were within a hair’s breadth of drawing and therefore King’s were incredibly close to winning first place.

The King’s pupils should feel immensely proud of coming second place in the national chess competition. Their camaraderie was second to none and after every round they were preparing for the next one.The King’s pupils were presented with the Richard Haddrell Trophy but they are very confident that they can win the first place trophy next year.

GAME DEVELOPMENT CLUB

By Rowan Marshall

In the Game Development Club students in the lower school were introduced to the world of creating video games on computers using the leading game engine software called Unity. I guided the students in creating their own platformer rocket-based game, adding the different components gradually each week including movement, sound effects, level design and more. Game development is a very sought-after subject, and the club received an overwhelming number of signups. Although a rocky start to the year due to computer issues, the club managed to keep a somewhat steady attendance before the end of year exams. I really enjoyed watching everyone’s different ideas develop over the year, allowing students to be creative in what they developed. I also liked helping the students with their problems during the club in a critical and proactive way. Finally, I even enjoyed making the materials that I presented in the club, that I can reuse the next time I run the club. It was extremely interesting for me to learn how I had to change my approach to game development. I had to send myself back

in time and be able to decipher the problems (that to me now were simple) that the students in the club faced. I also learned to be patient and understand that rushing through material is the last thing I want to do when covering the basics. All these new tips will be invaluable to me next year.

FUTURE PROBLEM-SOLVING CLUB

By Kheng Hshin Wong

My club, Future Problem Solving, sought to expose students to issues pertaining to the Humanities, particularly in the field of History and Politics. It was intended to develop this via discussions, in which possible scenarios of the future would be discussed, and creative solutions debated. While the scale of its outreach was limited, I hope that it gave some students an exposure to fundamental texts in understanding such issues: in particular, selections from writers including Hobbes and Rupert Smith to deepen their subject knowledge. I enjoyed the ability to build a relationship with participating students, exposing me to other perspectives that I had never considered before. It allowed me to develop organizational skills and to learn to set more realistic goals, as well as how to engage with my juniors.

HISTORY AND POLITICS SOCIETY

By Tom Rendell

This has been a fantastic and formative year for the History and Politics Society. We have never enjoyed such well-attended meetings in my time running the society, with students bringing a riotous range of opinions and perspectives. I have been very pleased to see much more diversity in gender emerge during the year as well.

Living through a time of such great change and uncertainty, we have certainly not been short of topics to discuss. Naturally there has been much focus on the crisis in Ukraine, but also topics as diverse and challenging as the Dobbs ruling in the USA and the scandals at the heart of British politics. In addition to our usual debates, some of our members have given very informative presentations to spark debate and shine a light on lesser known issues. We have learned about the political tensions in Sri Lanka and the problems surrounding elections in the Philippines. Finally, we have also had a change in leadership. Raphael Samuels has led the society with admirable patience and care for a few years, notably maintaining it through lockdown and overseeing the expansion in membership. Meanwhile, Aidan Weymouth oversaw the production and modernization of the History and Politics magazine. As we bid them farewell and wish them good luck, we are delighted to welcome Ben Birch as chairman, Alex Defterios as editor of the magazine and Matthieu Yap as it’s publisher. They are already doing a marvellous job.

WE HAVE NEVER ENJOYED SUCH WELLATTENDED MEETINGS, WITH STUDENTS BRINGING A RIOTOUS RANGE OF OPINIONS AND PERSPECTIVES

THE HISTORY SOCIETY

It has been a joy to break free from the online constraints of Covid and welcome a variety of speakers to King’s to speak to the History Society this year. In autumn, former Liberal Democrat leader Vince Cable addressed the thorny question of how the West should engage with China. His talk was erudite and provocative and led to a good-natured but vigorous discussion during the question and answer section about how (or if) nations can reconcile their economic aims with their positions on human rights issues.

Morality was at the heart of the talk from our second speaker, Peter Walker. Peter is a local historian who regularly runs sell-out walking tours of the local area for the Wimbledon Bookfest. He drew attention to the many, often hidden, connections Wimbledon has to the slave trade and its abolition, and challenged pupils to think afresh about past and how they can add to our understanding of it.

Sir John Nott, former defence secretary, joined us in the spring. In a wide-ranging conversation on stage with Mr Wheatley, Sir John talked about his time in politics, his thoughts on the various leaders he met (Wilson, Heath, Thatcher, to name just a few), his reflections on the Falklands 40 years on, the quality of NHS hearing aids, and the tenor of our national debate. He finished by giving a full-throated defence of the work of most MPs who, he argued, typically work hard to deliver for their constituents.

In the summer term Giles Udy, a writer and expert on the Soviet Gulag, spoke to lower fifth pupils from King’s and Putney High. Giles has spent years researching the Gulag and having visited them was able to speak with passion and insight about their horrors. Pupils were then broken up into smaller discussion groups, facilitated by some of our leading sixth form historians, where they examined a range of challenging primary sources which helped reveal some of the nuances of life inside the camps. The talk and seminar helped provoke a series of thoughtful questions for Giles in the plenary session and it was wonderful to see the pupils from the two schools collaborating together so effectively.

Sir John Nott

History talk

Giles Udy Gulag Talk

Vince Cable

LOWER SCHOOL & JUNIOR SCHOOL SPORTS ASSISTANT COACH

By Dylan Mayooran

BRIDGE CLUB

By Justin Zhang

My club is focused on teaching students bridge and for bridge players in the school to have a place where they can play with each other. It has been successful in getting many students of different year groups to try out bridge, and successfully teaching them the game. I enjoyed the teaching process a lot and general atmosphere of the club as it helped me develop more my organisational skills, as well as improving my bridge knowledge.

This year, I helped as an assistant sports coach for both the lower and junior school, as part of my CCA leader program. Water polo was my elected sport, and throughout the year, I worked with a multitude of staff such as Mr O’Sullivan and Mr Gwynne. My club took place over Monday lunchtimes (with the lower schoolers) but for the final term Mr O’Sullivan asked me if I could also assist him on Wednesdays after school. The water polo club was around one hour long each week. As part of my CCA, my tasks included setting up equipment, coaching and refereeing games for the children and helping them improve their water polo skills. There were many positives to being a leader, and I enjoyed this experience

immensely. My organisation improved thanks to the programme, and I also learnt a lot about a sport in which I was a relative novice, but I now appreciate the many skills to water polo. Finally, I began to understand how to teach younger students, and how to keep them focussed and interested in activities over periods of time. I also needed to help and deal with potentially disruptive children. Overall, the CCA leadership experience this year was eye-opening and despite setbacks such as a broken arm, there has been many amazing and brilliant moments. I encourage other pupils to get involved with the CCA leader program, as it’s a wonderful opportunity and I hope to continue again as a leader in the future.

Lower School Drama

By Sebastian Clarke

This year I worked together with members of the Drama Department and a fellow pupil to lead the extremely popular lower school drama club (we had to end up creating two different days for the club due to the number of attendees). In the first part of the year, lots of fun and exciting games were played, focusing on improvisation skills and getting to know one another better given the mixture of year groups (7 and 8). The rest of the year was then spent coming up with a short piece of devised drama with the theme being Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Fiction which was very much pupil driven with the help of myself. These pieces were then rehearsed until they were ready to perform in May to an audience live in the CHT along with the devised pieces of other drama clubs from different years. This was definitely a highlight of the year for the pupils’ part of the club and for myself as it turned out to be a great success after all of the hard work and rehearsing that went on. For me, being a CCA leader has helped me develop my transferrable leadership skills such as communication, organisation and collaboration. I now have a real appreciation of how hard it is to make sure everyone can turn up to rehearsals on time and this was certainly a challenge at first. Moreover, I believe that all of these skills will be very useful for me in the future and I cannot wait to see what next year holds for the club.

– Saahan Kapoor

I helped manage the Lower School Drama Club which helped people between year 7 and 8 with fun co-curricular drama activities. One of the many positives of helping the group was the increase in confidence many of them gained as the year progressed with many dramatic skills, such as performing, improvisation, and scene writing. What I enjoyed most was developing the end of year performance with the pupils, resulting in an incredibly performed interpretation of many horror stories which added a gruesome and creepy twist to the wholesome aspects of Roald Dahl’s Fantastic Fiction. While being both fun and educational for everyone I found that it helped my teamworking and conversational skills. A pupil of the club, Johnathon Plith said “I enjoyed playing games and doing physical theatre with my friends” –

Sebastian Clarke

MEMORIAL LIBRARY BOOK GROUP

By Mrs Hilary Mavin

Our third upper sixth book group left in the summer, off to pastures new. Although a small group they have been very dedicated since joining in the fourth form. Daniel reminisces about his experience of Book Group.

“I joined in fourth form; it was a really nice group although smaller in number by sixth form. One of our group members always had controversial opinions and the opposite to the rest of us. That always made for an exciting discussion; it’s fun and interesting how people’s opinions differ. I think Scythe was my overall favourite; one book we all enjoyed. I read the whole series I enjoyed it so much. I study science and maths so not so

much reading to do, but reading is a skill that you need to keep up. I enjoyed Book Group and conversations with Mrs Mavin and the rest of the group were always entertaining; and you get snacks!”

Harry added “Book Group was lovely, very relaxing in the middle of the day to chat about books. If I hadn’t come to book group, I probably wouldn’t have continued reading. I would thoroughly recommend it and the selection of books was good. Yes, there were some not so good ones, but you can’t appreciate the good books without the bad. I really enjoyed taking part.”

Tea plays a big part in Book Group and Jack

(U5) says “Book Group is one of the best clubs in school. Not only are you able to read books that you may not have picked up otherwise, debate them with similarly enthusiastic readers, you also get to skip the lunch queue and enjoy a nice cup of tea.” Jack in fourth form who drinks several cups of tea during our meetings had similar thoughts to Jack (U5) about reading. “It is a very enjoyable club, and it is nice because I don’t tend to read that much. The books are not always what I would think to read, so it is great when I discover a whole new genre that I really enjoy. This club is fantastic for me.”

Favourite books this year include Circe, Ghosting, The Martian, Dark Matter, The Last Paper Crane, and Ghost Boys

LOWER SCHOOL MATHS CLINIC

By Vikram Tandon

This academic year I ran the Maths Support Clinic for lower school pupils, where students could come to a weekly 45-minute session for help on individual questions, mathematical areas of study such as algebraic equations, or general preparation for an upcoming test or exam. A few pupils came to see me for the odd session every now and then, with numbers increasing in the summer term ahead of the internal exam period, and one pupil came regularly throughout the year. It was with this pupil that I saw the most progress, and it was particularly rewarding to reflect on how far his mathematical ability and discipline had advanced since November of 2021. His confidence had also increased – not only in his mathematical skills but also in speaking to me, for it was perhaps the first time he spoke to another student a good 3 or 4 years older than him. I myself very much enjoyed the experience and began to appreciate how the very best teachers strive to be patient, passionate and entertaining while retaining their own self-discipline and maintaining order in the classroom, in order to ensure there is never anarchy and lessons remain productive. I would not be so vain as to claim that I am such a teacher, but during this time I felt that my teaching and communication skills had improved significantly; one of my students told me that I “explained things to me very clearly and really tried to help me with useful and tricky questions”. Running the Lower School Maths Clinic also helped to improve my time management and coordination skills as I had to find times that suited everyone attending the sessions. I am most grateful to Ms Burke for running the CCA Leaders programme that gave me this opportunity, as well as to Miss Cooke who helped me set it up in its early stages back in October last year.

BOOK GROUP IS ONE OF THE BEST CLUBS IN THE SCHOOL. NOT ONLY ARE YOU ABLE TO READ BOOKS THAT YOU MAY NOT HAVE PICKED OTHERWISE, DEBATE ABOUT THEM WITH SIMILARLY ENTHUSIASTIC READERS, YOU ALSO SKIP THE LUNCH QUEUE AND ENJOY A

NICE CUP OF TEA

SPIKEBALL CLUB

I ran a Spikeball Club every Monday lunchtime where year 7s and 8s of any ability were encouraged to come down and play a few games. It is a sport a bit like tennis played with a ball and a springy net. It was great to see so many people enthusiastic about a sport I thought would be totally foreign and I really enjoyed bringing a beach favourite to school. Running the club taught me many things, most importantly the ability to plan and communicate to find pitches and equipment when originally setting it up. Ben Clarke

Spikeball Club is an enjoyable club where members of the lower school can come and have fun with their peers as well as make new friends in the process, and to destress during exam season. This game is played with a small net on the floor, off which a small ball is bounced from one team to the other. While running this club, I have enjoyed watching the pupils flourish and have fun while at the same time enriching their overall experience at King’s. Leading Spikeball Club has helped me to develop my leadership skills as well as my organisational and time management skills.

Eric Plat

PARTNERSHIPS AND OUTREACH

By Mr Peter Hatch

The 2021-22 academic year saw the return to in-person partnership projects for the whole year, this was the first time that this had been the case since the 2018-19 academic year. We were also delighted to welcome Wimbledon College as the tenth member of the Wimbledon ISSP.

The community project programme on Friday afternoons enabled almost 400 King’s pupils to take part in weekly activities with a wide range of local schools and organisations. This year a new swimming project began with Christ Church Primary School. The younger pupils were able to use the King’s swimming pool each week for their swimming lessons led by King’s pupils under the guidance of swimming coaches. Further additions to the programme included Robotics with Pelham Primary School. One King’s pupil was delighted that they were helping children hopefully discover a potentially life-long passion for robotics, computer science, and technology in general

In conjunction with the Royal Institution centre for climate change innovation, a new project visited a number of local primary schools educating pupils on how they could turn their school into a ‘Sustainable Super School’. Groups of pupils at each school were invited to present their ideas with the winners proceeding to the finals held at The Natural History Museum (NHM). The

winners faced a panel of experts from the Royal Institute, Grantham Institute of Climate Change and Angry Monk.

The final new project for this year was Drawing Together which enabled 150 pupils from four primary schools to take part in practical art workshops throughout the year led by King’s students.

The ‘Friday Afternoon Blues’ band, travelled

to Merton Abbey Primary School to teach jazz improvisation to children as part of the ‘Jazz in The Community’ project. The King’s pupils, in conjunction with Merton Music, taught the children how to experiment with and develop musical ideas, progressing from basic rhythms through clapping all the way up to sophisticated solos on instruments from glockenspiel to guitar, which were showcased in our final concert. During this, there were collaborative performances of a variety of pieces from ‘Swing Low, Sweet Chariot’ to our very own ‘Friday Afternoon Blues’, as well as some solo offerings from the children which showcased their enthusiasm and talent.

IT WAS TRULY AWESOME SEEING SUCH A RANGE OF TALENT FROM ACROSS ALL THE SCHOOLS TAKING PART

Chinese with Ursuline High School

One King’s pupil said, ‘Seeing the musical progress made over the weeks was hugely satisfying and the excitement and enthusiasm each child showed, even just in playing a few bars of improvised glockenspiel for example, was genuinely impactful and made me feel that I was really aiding the community, which of course the CCA programme aims chiefly to achieve.’ The Mayor of Merton attended and said,

‘This is the very essence of partnership work’. On the last day of the spring term, King’s pupils and pupils from ten different partnership schools took part in the community production, A Thousand and One Nights, in the Collyer Hall Theatre. Pupils worked together on every aspect of the production: designing the set and props, composing the music, devising the script, conducting and singing in the choir as well as the technical side of the production, sound and lighting...the list is endless! There really was a role for every pupil in the Community Production. The Mayor of Merton attended and said ‘it was truly awesome seeing such a range of talent from across all the schools taking part’.

During the spring term over 100 partner school Wimbledon ISSP pupils in Year 11 attended GCSE reinforcement classes in Maths, English, German, Spanish, French, Biology, Physics and Chemistry taught by teachers from King’s

Inspiring children through science

on a weekly basis. These classes enabled the students to consolidate their knowledge in preparation for the public exams. One pupil said, ‘[the teachers] explained the topics at a good level and it was well-paced’. ‘a second added ‘[the lessons were] well planned and concise’. Whilst a third said, ‘[the lessons were useful since] we got to get a different approach to teaching the subject’.

During the course of the year, a number of events were run as part of the Senior Aspirations programme for partnership school pupils who would be first generation university scholars.

In the spring term, the Wimbledon ISSP were delighted to be invited to take part in the Globe Theatre’s Playing Shakespeare with Deutsche Bank, attending a series of six workshops and visiting the Globe for the performance of Macbeth This allowed the 90 year nine pupils from nine schools to really engage with the text, get to know the Globe Theatre and develop their knowledge of Shakespearean language considerably. One student, following the final workshop, mentioned that she had joined the Globe Youth Theatre as a result of this course. Others referred to the fact that they were inspired to continue studying Drama for A level and BTEC. Whilst many spoke about the whole experience increasing confidence levels, especially in relation to public speaking, and some referring to incorporating performance techniques, which had been learnt, into their future acting. These included tone of

voice, body language and general acting skills. One student added, ‘I learnt about the techniques that actors use to deliver the performance to a high and engaging standard. I saw this in action when we watched the performance of the play live at the Globe’. Pupils all agreed that the practical nature of the workshops made them incredibly fun.

Senior Aspirations year 10 pupils visited King’s College London to learn more about university life, have a tour of the Strand campus and attend a taster lecture. One pupil said that the best thing about the trip was,‘Understanding more about my future and how to structure it successfully’. They also went to the West End for a performance of Ocean at the End of the Lane Pupils commented afterwards that they were particularly inspired by the use of physical theatre and props in the show. In the summer term year 10 pupils attended workshops in Geography, Computing and Greek whilst year 9 pupils covered Chinese, Music and Engineering which were led by King’s staff and pupils.

Year 11 pupils visited Royal Holloway University of London to learn more about possible courses, discover more about scholarships and experience

a campus university.They also attended workshops led by Future Foundations following which one pupil said that they would be ‘dedicating some time to the research of universities I’d like to go to, understand what I can and can’t do and use my skills to my advantage, and do what I am passionate about’, as a result of the workshops.

At the end of the academic year the Open Doors Project took place for the first time since 2019. This involved 90 pupils from three primary schools taking part in sports and 60 from two primary schools devising a theatrical show The Snow Queen.The project was led by student leaders from King’s and two partner secondary schools with the final performance and tournament attended by parents, teachers and the Mayor of Merton. Cheryl Seabrook, the teacher in charge from St Mark’s said, ‘You worked so hard and it really showed in the outstanding performance by all pupils and student leaders in the production. We are really looking forward to next year’s Open Doors project already!’ Whilst one of the student leaders said, ‘The best thing about the week was seeing the kids engage in the sports so much as well as building relationships with people I may otherwise not have’.

We continue to offer UCAS support to Oxbridge and medicine applicants, and last year the number of pupils engaging with our support returned to the high levels we saw before the pandemic began. 35 pupils from Coombe Girls’, Coombe Boys’, Grey Court, Ursuline, Wimbledon College and Raynes Park High School received individually-tailored support for their applications through attending extension classes, receiving personal statement support and advice, and attending mock interviews in person or over video call. Of those 35 pupils, 22 were called for interview by Oxford or Cambridge, and ten were offered places.

The Wimbledon Partnership continues to be beneficial in helping teachers with career development. Two King’s teachers completed teacher training placements at schools within the partnership. The King’s Teaching and Learning Platform (KTLP) will be a new and innovative way of providing professional learning to the King’s community and these courses will be open to teachers from Harris Academy Wimbledon from September 2023. King’s arranged two teaching placements for PGCE students at Roehampton University, one in Drama and one in History.

We are delighted that Jo Larizadeh, Head of Harris Academy Wimbledon, joined the governing body of King’s this year. Several King’s staff continue to be governors of local schools.

The Partnerships and Outreach department is very grateful to the Friends of King’s for their generous sponsorship of many aspects of the programme. Without this, the opportunities for all students involved would be much reduced.

Staffing of the department remains the same next year with Dean Starrett and Alex Trosser continuing as Assistant Directors; Hannah Cocksworth as Deputy Director and Peter Hatch as Director of the programme. Partner school pupils will be assisted with medical and Oxbridge UCAS applications by Hugh Trimble again this year.

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35 PUPILS FROM COOMBE GIRLS’, COOMBE BOYS’, GREY COURT, URSULINE, WIMBLEDON COLLEGE AND RAYNES PARK HIGH SCHOOL RECEIVED INDIVIDUALLY-TAILORED SUPPORT FOR THEIR UCAS APPLICATIONS

King’s pupils gain so much on Friday afternoons, not only through teaching in the classroom but also by getting the opportunity to coach and train primary school students on the pitch and on the court in a fun and energetic way.

PEOPLE OF KING’S

SALVETE

Miss Ines Spindler, German Language Assistant

Mrs Rebecca O’Brien, Teacher of Biology

Miss Silvi Lecointre, Spanish Language Assistant

Mr Kit Tipping, Teacher of Geography

Miss Alice Lethbridge, Teacher of Biology

Ms Aine Troy, Head of Economics

Mr Dan Hopwood, Deputy Head of Sixth Form, Head of Pupil Engagement, Teacher of D&E

Mr Richard Amlot, Deputy Head (Pastoral)

Miss Joyce Li, Teacher of Psychology

Mr Jack McGarey, Teacher of Chemistry

Mr Will Forse, Assistant Head (Admissions and Marketing) & Teacher of Maths

Miss Raquel Serrano Ramirez, Teacher of Spanish

Mr Joe Painter, Teacher of Biology

Mrs Emily Taylor, Teacher of Biology

CAPTAINS OF HOUSE FAREWELL

The Captains and Vice-Captains of School for 2021/22 took part in a short Q&A to shed some light on what their roles consisted of

WHO ARE YOU AND WHAT DO YOU DO?

Hugo: Our team of four (Captains James and Izzy, and Vice-Captains Anika and myself) act as a sort of direct link between the students and the teachers.

James: We have regular meetings with the Head, the pastoral deputy and Ms Ramgoolam, and more importantly we also tell people to stand up and sit down in assembly.

WHAT DO YOU TALK ABOUT IN ALL THOSE MEETINGS?

Anika: All sorts, ranging from the current mood of the student body (e.g. stress levels in the sixth form centre around university deadlines), to planning out how many prefects we’ll need for a certain after-school event.

WHAT WAS THE BEST THING ABOUT BEING CAPTAIN/VICE-CAPTAIN OF SCHOOL?

Izzy: Aside from the free cups of tea and biscuits, it was a huge honour being trusted to represent King’s in the form of speeches to prospective parents, or giving input on school initiatives.

Anika: When you’re in the Captain’s team, most teachers assume that whatever you’re doing, you’re doing it for a good reason - by the end I figured out if I just walked with confidence I could get into lunch at whatever time I fancied.

AND THE WORST?

Hugo: As Vice-Captain, it was our job to conscript other prefects when they were needed for after-school activities such as tours, helping with parents’ evenings etc. As you can probably imagine, it doesn’t make you the most popular person around school.

ANY SECRETS YOU LEARNT ABOUT THE SENIOR STAFF?

Hugo: Ms Lowson is a really good cyclist and for a very long time held a top 10 time on the Tourmalet on Strava.

Izzy: Mr Sandels knows everything…

James: Mr Amlot parties hard.

ANY ADVICE FOR THE FUTURE STUDENTS OF KING’S?

Izzy: You’ll never have the opportunity to be an athlete, musician and actor alongside your subjects again so take advantage!

James: Make the most of everything that King’s has to offer, because there is a lot - and you often don’t appreciate it all until it’s gone.

Anika Gupta

Hugo Robijns Isabella Steinmeyer

James Southorn

PREFECTS’ DINNER

By Anika Gupta and Hugo Robijns

On Thursday 17th March the senior prefects, along with some important members of staff, gathered in the dining hall for the annual blue-tie, black-tie dinner. With the sun suddenly out after days of rain, and everyone looking smart (especially Mr Sandels in his electric blue dinner jacket), spirits were high as we looked forward to what was to be a wonderful evening.

We were each greeted with a glass of bubbles on arrival, which we took with us to the steps of the Great Hall. Here, we took a lovely (blurry) group photo in the last light of the day - little did we know that this was the first of many thousands of photos that Ms. Ramgoolam was determined to take that evening, clearly seeking for something

to look back on when missing this extraordinary bunch of students in the years to come. Having finally returned from the photoshoot, we enjoyed half an hour of standing drinks, a pleasant opportunity to greet everyone there and chat to some of our teachers in a more relaxed and informal environment. The two supplementary invites this year were fan-favourites Mr Ross and Ms. Potts, both incredibly kind and entertaining additions.

Before long, Ms. Ramgoolam clinked her glass with her knife (something she enjoyed far too much, such that she continued to do it incessantly throughout the rest of the evening). We took our seats and enjoyed further conversation, exquisite

food, and liberal adherence to the “one glass of wine” policy. Just as we began tucking into a deliciously rich chocolate cake, served with a delightful berry coulis, speeches were delivered by our Captains of School, and our favourite pastoral head, Mr Amlot. Summarising our hard work over the past year, and enlaced with some light-hearted jibes, all the speeches certainly brightened our evenings and successfully hit the mark!

Indeed, time flies when you are having fun. The fabulous dinner ran overtime, and after the desert there were more pictures taken, and, of course, some more excellent chat. Finally, however, it was time for our farewells after what had been an incredibly enjoyable evening. Yet for some, the night was still young, and the blue ties all headed off to an unnamed Vice Captain of School’s home where the evening continued - although that is beyond the subject of this particular article. To reiterate the words of our Captains of School, we would like to express our gratitude to all the teachers for overseeing the prefects this past year, and of course to the outstanding catering staff for putting on this delightful feast!

VALEDICTORIES

KATE

BIRD

study for every middle school pupil. She pored over examiners’ reports and scripts to decipher exam board strategy, and ran countless revision sessions with laser-focused advice for pupils. Her results were consistently outstanding, and she had a very positive impact on sixth form recruitment.

high standards and mutual respect she expected from all.

Kate joined King’s in September 2008 as a teacher of English. As she quietly established herself, it was clear from the outset that she would become an indispensable member of the department, and one of the most respected teachers in the school.

Having worked as an English Language teacher in Italy and the UK before she joined King’s, it is little surprise that in Kate the school found a communicator and problem-solver of the highest order. She always made time to listen to pupils and colleagues, supporting others in genuine and meaningful ways, and she bolstered the department to overcome challenges and vastly improve its provision for pupils. One of Kate’s former IB students recently paused to reflect on her impact: ‘thank you for being such a fantastic English teacher, Mrs Bird. Your dedication to our set was unparalleled, and each lesson was such great fun.’ During her Maclear years, Kate’s tutees found themselves in the safest of hands and were able to encounter her brilliant sense of humour too; one would struggle to think of a more reliable and supportive role model to guide and steer young people through the turbulent waters of adolescence. Kate is a wonderful teacher, a colleague of the utmost decency, good nature and un-extravagant kindness; colleagues and pupils will miss her very much. For many years, Kate was invaluable to the coordination and running of both the Language and Literature GCSEs, creating programmes of

Her Master’s degree in Renaissance Studies was put to great use throughout her time here, especially in her inspirational teaching of Shakespeare and early modern drama and poetry; the department and countless pupils have benefited from her knowledge of Italian forms in particular, such as the sonnet, and she has always inspired her pupils to consider the arts and literature as part of a broad and interconnected world. She is herself a qualified translator from Italian to English, having previously taught undergraduate courses in this subject at the University of Reading. At King’s, she designed and taught the Italian taster day during fourthform activities week for a number of years, and she has taught the language here at GCSE.

Kate looked after the school newspaper in her first year at King’s, then chaired the Rossetti Society for the English department, and for many years enjoyed supervising Maclear’s entry in the House Play competition. Before the SharePoint era, the online ‘King’s Learning Platform’ was never abbreviated to the KLP by the English department but rather dubbed the ‘KLB’, in honour of the extraordinarily well-organised and user-friendly interface that Kate created for our subject resources and many changing texts, across all year groups. It was the quiet and unglamorous work of hundreds of hours, and our resourcerich schemes of work that will continue to glitter from Kate’s efforts and significant contributions for years to come. If she ever fancied a return to the world of publishing (yes, another of her preKing’s talents), a textbook by Kate Bird ought to sit in every English classroom in the land.

It’s no surprise that with her First Class degree from Christ Church (Oxford) that Kate’s subject knowledge is exceptional, though she always wore it lightly and never ‘winged it’ or cut corners, prioritising preparation in all that she did. Her lessons were a masterclass in how to engage pupils with extremely well-planned and dynamic activities; though Kate’s classes hung on her every word, she couldn’t have been further from a chalk-and-talk teacher: her lessons were full of thoughtful pupil discussion because of the

One former colleague, Ellie Collin, remembers Kate as ‘a total inspiration, a woman who takes herself seriously, whilst seemingly not taking herself seriously. Her intelligence is always matched with interest, and one might have felt inferior if it weren’t for her constant humility and knowing that she works so hard’ – words that will resonate with many of us.

Throughout her King’s career, Kate has also been a staunch supporter of the school’s Partnerships Programme, and she has led many community projects with reliability and a deep sense of social justice. She successfully oversaw the Junior Aspirations programme for a number of years and I know our directors of partnerships past and present would want to thank her for her especially brilliant work with Bond and St Mark’s primary schools in Mitcham, and her contributions to partnerships productions (even, one year, a puppetry project with Emma-Jayne Emmott). More recently, she has led the football coaching partnership with Harris Academy Wimbledon and two online virtual projects, the first with Sacred Heart Primary in New Malden and another with Linden Lodge school in Wandsworth. Kate has also taught GCSE English partnership revision sessions.

Though her own two wonderful children keep her busy enough, since going part-time Kate has still decluttered and tidied the English office on more occasions than we can bear to admit, and she has taken on internal exam marking and the teaching of sets beyond her own timetable to help out her department in times of need, even coming in on her days off to support her Year 8s.

It is hard to think how the English department will manage without Kate, though we are so excited for her next chapter to begin. She was recently elected a parent governor at Hollymount Primary and she is joining local literacy charity ‘Learn to Love to Read’ in the role of Family Programmes Manager from September. All this while continuing as a Reading Volunteer for Doorstep Library, bringing the joy of reading into the homes of children across London who need support. We wish Kate every success for the future, and thank her sincerely for all she has given to the school.

Mr Ben Bransfield

HARRY BOND

Harry Bond began his career at King’s as a rowing coach in 2009. Two years later, interested in exploring routes into teaching, he visited the senior school Maths department, by chance during the annual recruitment drive. Harry put in an application and taught such an impressive interview lesson that he was immediately snapped-up, soon developing into a highly capable teacher, making Further Maths mechanics his specialism.

In December 2016, Harry and his wife Rebecca had identical twins and Harry decided to take a break from teaching, to look after his young family. Having supplemented the Bond family further with another set of twins and then a fifth child, the experience of Covid lockdown with five children under the age of 5 provided the opportunity to reflect on a return to the classroom. Again

SIMON BRADLEY

Simon Bradley joined the King’s Maths department in September 2016. Previously he had taught at the British International School of Budapest and prior to that, Malvern College, where he was Miss James’s teacher, who remembers his quiet demeanour and the occasional glimmer of a grin. Simon is a highly experienced and flexible teacher; teaching across the ability range, he is happy to teach IB or A Level and is equally at home with mechanics or statistics. Simon is very well-liked by those he teaches and his lessons are well-ordered, though no one has ever heard him raise his voice. Despite Simon’s modesty, he is a very capable mathematician, and has been known to produce elegant typed-up solutions to the most challenging Olympiad problems. Simon’s main responsibility within the department has been for STEP preparation; of the previous four pupils he has helped, three successfully took up their Cambridge offers, with strong hopes for a further two applicants this year. Simon’s less wellknown skill is that of a proof-reader, on a number of occasions, his backroom efforts have saved the school from large-scale Admissions disasters

fortuitously, Harry got in contact for advice on applying for teaching posts at exactly the time that we were about to recruit and Harry rejoined the Maths department in November 2020. In an age of OneNote and Teams, it is refreshing that Harry has retained his habit of transcribing problems from text books by hand, creating immaculately presented, but highly challenging problem sheets. Harry of course threw himself back into rowing at King’s, contributing at all levels. With the fourth formers, he has been instrumental in defining the quality of rowing expected, and the numbers involved have increased significantly. With the J15, his example has established good practice and a work ethic at this crucial formative stage, and with the seniors, his technical advice on strategy and tactics has drawn on the breadth his own experience.

Now that the Bond family have outgrown their flat and need to relocate, Harry has secured a teaching position at St Edward’s School, Oxford, a well-regarded rowing school. We wish Harry, Rebecca and their children all the best for the future.

Mr Simon Nye

when he has weeded-out errors in the 11+ exam.

Outside the department, Simon has also had responsibility as a cool, calm and collected deputy head of examinations. Whilst we would like to think that any Maths teacher’s first loyalty is to the Maths department, it is well known that Simon’s first passion is for CCF, closely followed by pub quizzes and his pool

table. Simon has shown total commitment to the CCF, he is a very highly qualified Army Section officer, and as Head of the Army Section he has been hugely supportive of Bob Mitchell and Glen Painter. Simon ran Duke of Edinburgh Gold and introduced the CCF to new training areas in the Brecon Beacons. As a mountain leader and a skillat-arms instructor he’ll be sorely missed, not least during cups of tea in the CCF office.

Simon now leaves us to take up a teaching post at Uppingham, a school with a strong CCF section of course, and close to his and his wife’s family.

We wish Simon, Tina and their daughter Alicia all the best for their new start.

Mr Simon Nye

VICTORIA CASEMORE

HARRY CHAPMAN

Harry joined King’s in September of 1997 to teach French and Spanish. Back then, around 30 pupils participated in weekly ‘community service’ on Friday afternoons under the careful guidance of Ros Davis; when Harry took over, he began creating ‘stations’ based on pupils’ and staff interests, as well as the needs of local schools. In this early phase activities were based on academic subjects, arts and games. Eventually, Harry added projects involving sixth-formers of the same age in other collaborative and expressive disciplines such as drama and creative writing.

Any King’s pupils lucky enough to have been taught by Victoria since she joined the school in 2008 would vouch for her abilities in the classroom. She is, quite simply, a fantastic teacher. She has a superb knowledge of all things classical, is patient and good-natured, and is extremely organised. Her lessons are a model for any inexperienced teacher; she fosters a wonderful collaborative and industrious atmosphere in her classroom, pupils of all abilities are supported and challenged in equal measure, and she exudes an unflappable sense of calm throughout. It is, of course, no surprise that the exam results of her classes have been formidable, but the real outputs of her teaching have always been the pupils’ intellectual curiosity, their ability to think creatively, their independent approach to learning, and their enjoyment of Classics.

For 13 years, Victoria has been an invaluable and dedicated member of the Classics department. She has repeatedly shown her commitment to her pupils, delivering carefullyplanned, engaging lessons that foster a love of the subject. She is a consummate professional: diligent, patient, and good-natured. Such a friendly and positive presence who is always happy to offer help and advice, Victoria will be hugely missed from the Classics office as a colleague and as a teacher. We wish her the best of luck in the years to come with her family and in her new career in the Foreign Office.

Mr Sam Young

In Summer 2010, Harry expanded the creative arts community project with St Mark’s primary school into the week long Open Doors Project: this consisted of a summer carousel of workshops in drama, music, and art, woven together into a celebratory performance for parents. Countless King’s pupils received their first taste of work experience and teaching responsibility as student leaders on this project; meanwhile, hundreds of primary pupils will remember their week in ways that will have deeply touched their inner lives and self-confidence for the better. It offered a precious snapshot of all the good that can be achieved through community partnerships, and we have Harry to thank for creating such an enterprise that continues to grow from strength to strength.

Within the Modern Foreign Languages department, Harry has been an invaluable pillar and role model, consistently leading pupils to outstanding results in spite of going beyond the syllabus – an approach to which all teachers should aspire. He created and ran the hugely successful ‘Lingua Franca’ society: talks, debates, poetry reading competitions, and the infamous fête gastronomique, have all enriched the cultural understanding of generations of King’s linguists. Outside the classroom, he directed Lorca’s Buster Keaton takes a stroll and instigated the annual Spanish play. He also co-led exciting sixth-form study trips to Spain with Clarisa Butler and, after she left, he took over the annual appointment of the King’s Spanish assistant from Salamanca University, always finding remarkably talented individuals who have benefited the King’s community and lit the spark within so many of our young hispanists.

Not only is Harry himself a linguist par excellence, but he is an extraordinary teacher of world literatures too. How lucky King’s pupils and staff have been over the years to discuss texts with such a deeply attentive, sensitive, and prolific reader. For many years, he even shared higher level IB sets with colleagues in the English department, teaching the world literature paper on the English course with energy and expertise in equal measure. He is himself the author of a published novel; his translation of Lorca’s ‘unstageable’ In Five Year’s Time was staged at the Southwark Playhouse; and we hope that he will now be able to devote more time to his own writing and works in progress.

In these various roles and throughout his career at King’s, Harry has had that enviable skill of making all feel at ease in his company, and valued; the sheer size of the ever-growing, and evolving, partnerships network would have daunted most experienced senior managers. To watch Harry at work in partnerships meetings was a masterclass in tact, diplomacy, and how to arrive at a shared vision; without Harry’s visionary approach, logistics and transport wizardry, and tireless efforts to build strong and lasting links at such a scale, none of these trailblazing initiatives would have been possible.

Harry joined King’s keen to apply to his own life François Truffaut’s assertion that ‘a story should have a beginning, a middle and an end, but not necessarily in that order.’ As he begins his next chapter beyond these school gates, Harry can leave knowing that he has instilled this same adventurous philosophy into pupils and colleagues alike. As Aristotle once wrote, ‘Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all’. Mr Ben Bransfield

ANNA MARIA CLARKE

activated her ‘beast mode’. There was a situation to manage – and Anna Maria going to manage it.

Anna Maria joined King’s back in October 2016, and now leaves us for the world of PR to work for Hawthorn as their Chief Operating Officer. Hawthorn are a brilliant firm, working in the exciting world of politics and press, advising and guiding movers and shakers and some of the most important people in the UK. It is a brilliant coup for Anna Maria and indeed for Hawthorn. She will be very much at home surrounded by the sharp minds and working at fast pace, and in the way that she has had a huge impact here, I am sure she will help to propel this company to bigger and better things.

As Bursar, Anna Maria has one of the most far reaching and varied remits of any member of staff, and indeed has been showing me lots of evidence of this in her 141 line spreadsheet handover document. As we prepared to advertise for her successor, we dug out the job description that was used last time and realised that under her tenure it has become twice as long and far more complicated. Anna Maria does not so much have her finger in every part of the King’s pie so much as a major stake in a pie manufacturing company with every aspect overseen with ruthless efficiency.

She is a whirlwind of effectiveness, a dynamo of dynamism, and has a really uncommon ability to turn her intellect and powers of analysis to new tasks and new challenges. I bore witness to these traits in her management of Covid 19 in the school. At some point in February 2020, as the pandemic was picking up and we began to receive more complicated guidance, I remember the moment when Anna Maria

Plans were torn up, budgets re-invented, and instead of running a school we became experts on purchasing Perspex, found storage for 98 million litres of hand sanitiser, covered every surface with warning signs about social distancing, and of course purchased those portable handwashing stations. More impressive still was watching Anna Maria in action in December 2020 when we were planning for the testing regime in January. Before the government had come up with the idea of mass testing, we were in contact with providers of lateral flow tests, were already well versed in the language of nasal pharyngeal swiping, had already lined up agency staff to help with conducting the tests. You might remember that December 2020 was the year that Christmas was cancelled at the last minute by the Kent variant. In those final days before Christmas, it became increasingly clear that the pandemic was entering a new phase, and that planning tests for January was likely to be futile because we were probably not going to be in school in any case, but Anna Maria and I pressed on with making the arrangements, largely I think because she is not the type of person to leave a process uncompleted, even if it is Christmas eve eve.

This actually turned out to be a moment of great foresight. When we came back to school in March, the government asked schools to complete mass testing, and we were well ahead of the game on this. We also had CO2 monitors in classrooms long before this was cool, and this speaks volumes for Anna Maria’s thoroughness, but also her can-do approach. Put simply, she is a person who makes things happen, and a person who finds a way.

It is impossible to overstate the extent to which Anna Maria has ‘made things happen’ in the past 6 years. She has masterminded the latter stages of the masterplan, but therefore has been at the helm for the most challenging projects –the New Music School and the Sports Hall. The successful delivery of these projects owes a great deal to her leadership and supreme grasp of the detail of these exceptionally complex projects. Alongside Karl Gross she has played a key role as King’s has expanded overseas. She has been a board member for our school in Bangkok, and heavily involved in the processes for establishing

and managing these offshoots, which in turn has significantly boosted the ability of the school to provide fee assistance for more pupils here in Wimbledon. She has played a pivotal role this year with David Millar as we march towards another exciting new frontier with our plans for KCS Online. A project that has required all of her problem solving skills, entrepreneurial spirit and talent for robust negotiation.

She applies these skills when steering multimillion pound projects, but I have learnt that ruthless efficiency and a refusal to take ‘no’ or even ‘maybe’ for an answer also informs her approach to day to day situations. Recently Anna Maria travelled to Bangkok for a board meeting of our school over there. Touching down in Phuket, disaster stuck, as it was apparent that BA had not fancied putting her luggage in the plane and it was stuck in a huge pile back in Heathrow. Upon her return to London, BA proudly updated her they had indeed found her bag, and not to worry, it was on its way to Phuket. Undeterred by this set-back, Anna Maria found her way into the bowels of Terminal 2 at Heathrow and the baggage handling office. She managed to find the very person who had put her bag onto the plane, Alan, get his personal mobile number and secured his personal commitment to reuniting her with her baggage quick smart. I think only a small number of BA flights had to be diverted in order to expedite the return of her bag, but once Alan, and BA knew who they were dealing with, the bag was back on UK soil in 24 hours.

Now I realise I am painting a picture of Anna Maria as a ruthlessly efficient taskmaster, who will stop at nothing to see a project to successful completion and a task ticked off the 141 line spreadsheet to do list, crushing all impediments in her path. But that’s not the whole story. In fact that is not even half the story. The truth is that Anna Maria is not motivated by completing projects, or having her name at the bottom of the contract or winning plaudits from the governors, even though she has done all of the above with great aplomb. The truth is that she cares. She really cares about a job being done right, and well. She cares that the site, and the facilities are the best they can possibly be for our pupils. She cares that King’s has a reputation for excellence in all that it does, and that she does her bit to uphold this.

And she cares hugely for her team. Anna Maria has spent many an hour on the big ticket projects

and the fruits of her labours can be seen in the beautiful buildings which populate our site, but she has spent many more hours considering the human aspects of her role – dealing with staff matters with the utmost professionalism and sensitivity, supporting parents in difficult financial situations with great tact and kindness, and really working hard to ensure that this is a great place to work for support staff. She will always fight the corner for support staff in every meeting of the SMT or governors – eager for example that there are opportunities for staff development for support staff, ensuring that there is careful consideration of impact on workload of various projects, keen their tremendous work is celebrated and rewarded and never overlooked. She is eager to ensure that their voice is heard, amplified and acted upon. She is quick to pick up tasks which have stalled or where a colleague

JOAN CROSSLEY

Joan joined King’s in September 2010 as school chaplain and member of the Theology and Philosophy department. During her time at King’s she has been dedicated and hardworking, giving support to four different heads in her teaching department and at least twelve different team members in this department. In addition to being a key department member, Joan has supported numerous pupils, staff and parents, always making their welfare and wellbeing her priority. Her calm advice, intellectual rigour, spiritual insight and compassionate concern for everyone has been a tutelary guide for all. When time allowed, she regularly volunteered to teach as many new

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needs help – and again this is not just a sign of her incredible diligence and fearsome work ethic but actually her commitment to taking things off other busy people and getting them finished, and to helping her team if they are under the cosh. I would be worrying about a situation and would then find that Anna Maria had simply got on and sorted it out, but whenever she has stepped in in this way it has always been motivated by great kindness. She is prepared to pull her weight and so much more.

The truth is that despite being in possession of the most enormous brain, she is all heart.

It will come as no surprise to you then when I say that she has been an invaluable support for me this year and has been a great deal of fun to work with too – there have been some difficult times and some occasions where we have dissolved into fits of laughter more because

we have become incoherently hysterical and exhausted, but more often because Anna Maria’s wicked sense of humour has lifted the mood and made many difficulties melt away.

Anna Maria has had a hand in so much of the success of the school – its ability to attract investment in several overseas territories, to be financially efficient, to maintain an enviable reputation, to complete an ambitious masterplan, and so much behind the scenes. If you want a real treat, get Anna Maria to talk you through the new anti-money laundering policy, or the changes to the statutes which govern how the school operates.

But honestly, she has left an indelible mark on so many aspects of this place. We will miss her enormously, and I am sure you will join me in wishing her every success and every happiness in her new role.

Ms Jude Lowson

pupils as possible, leading to whole cohorts benefiting from her guidance and teaching expertise. Joan played a huge role in coordinating charity events and her drive in organising ‘Make a Difference Day’, the annual Christmas tea and many other events always ensured these were hugely successful. Joan guided many pupils through Confirmation and also conducted many christenings and blessings, and was always available to give sympathetic and much needed support to families during bereavement. Her wise words in many assemblies were always food

for thought. Joan is a keen fitness enthusiast who enjoys a regular swim in the school pool and was key in organising staff spinning which occurred before school on a weekly basis. She has offered a universe of warmth to all her colleagues, pupils and friends and her impact throughout the King’s community will be felt for years to come. We will miss her support and kindness a great deal.

Joan leaves us to return to Bedfordshire on a permanent basis where she is really looking forward to being a grandmother to Rueben.

Mr John Galloway

Antoine came to London in September 2018 to become a French assistant at King’s for one academic year. However, one year became three very successful years and his patient and good-humoured manner with the weaker speakers of French will be remembered by many.

During his years at King’s he has given his time generously supporting colleagues and pupils alike. He has also contributed to the Partnership Programme taking part in the after-school revision sessions and covering for colleagues on Friday afternoon activities. He has taught bilingual pupils in the middle school and provided cover to year 8 when needed. Antoine has been a great asset to the department providing lunch-time revision sessions and supporting our school representative at ‘les Joutes Oratoires’ where his great work helping the team prepare was successfully rewarded by receiving the first prize on two occasions.

Antoine’s down-to-earth coolness and Peckham trendiness will be missed in T18 and we would like to wish him all the best for his return to France and his future!

Miss Bárbara Cerda-Drago

ADAM HEDGES

OLIVIA HARMAN

Olivia joined Kings in September 2017, arriving with excellent academic credentials from Uppingham School and York University, as well as an impressive ability (gained from the Teach First programme) to corral a potentially rowdy class.  She quickly proved an energetic and diligent teacher, pedagogically inventive and always eager to expand her textual repertoire; and a much-loved colleague, keen to work collaboratively within the department and in particular to help other new staff settle into their roles.  Her warm and nurturing relationship with students led to her appointment as Deputy Head of Sixth Form. Her willingness to listen and respond to students’ ideas led to a much more significant role for the sixth form committee, and a range of events and activities designed to bond students together and improve their sixth form experience. A figure who students naturally turned to with pastoral concerns, she became heavily involved in the school’s immediate response to the Black Lives Matter debates, chairing the student forum and helping the school to respond tactfully and sensitively to potentially contentious issues.  As Director of Equality, Diversity and Inclusion, her sense of principle and aptitude for hard work has helped Kings to create a clear vision of its direction in the future.  She leaves us to start a new life as a teacher of English at the prestigious Middlesex College in Massachusetts.  Dr

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College with his fiancé, Francesca, and their cat, Geoffrey. Adam has been a true school master in his time at King’s, throwing himself into lots that the school has to offer. As a keen outdoor enthusiast he can often be found on the hockey pitch or cricket square, having taken multiple middle school sides. When the weather is colder he is most likely to be found on the ski slopes and has taken several trips, including taking the ski racers to Les Deux Alpes. He has been a superb tutor within Maclear and had a year as Assistant Head of House. One of his most notable feats was running an ultra-marathon in 2021 with a former colleague to raise money for the Maclear house charity.

Mr James Grabowski

JOYCE LI

Adam joined the Biology department at King’s from Whitgift School, where he had also been a student, in September 2018. He has been a passionate biologist and his students have loved being in his classroom. He has worked hard within the department at developing metacognition within biology, in particular for tackling the challenges of the A level course. He shared his findings as part of the Academic Focus Group and it was one of his key areas of focus during his tenure as Acting Head of Biology, a post he has held for just over a year now. He leaves us to move into a role as Head of Biology at Epsom

Joyce joined King’s having completed an MSc in Comparative and International Education. Arriving as an UTQ and being thrown into teaching A-level Psychology was no easy feat. However, Joyce quickly rose to the occasion. Her natural warmth and strong subject knowledge meant she was able to direct and respond to questions with ease. Lessons are creative, innovative and filled with discussion, debate and enthusiasm. Joyce has a clear passion for Psychology and considers carefully how to convey this in class and achieve the best from pupils. She has led the Psychology Society, enthusing younger pupils in her subject. Joyce has been a fantastic asset to the Psychology department. In addition, she has contributed to the wider life of the school helping with D of E and activities week. I am sorry she did not set up a hiphop dance club; one of her pastimes. Joyce has been a delightful colleague who has made a deep impression on those who have worked with her. We have no doubt she has a bright future ahead. We wish her the best of luck in her future endeavours.

Mrs Emily Britton

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KATE MCGINLEY

Kate joined the school as Head of Girls’ Games in September 2019. We were all immediately struck with how she fitted into the department dynamic with both her professionalism and calm manner. However, in the weeks preceding the school closure it was evident that not only did Kate have the credentials of an outstanding netball coach, but a steely determination to win.

Dr Paul Lloyd joined King’s in 2003, initially as Head of Science. He quickly oversaw some significant alterations within the science faculty, with many of the changes that Paul successfully implemented continuing to this day. He then took on the role of leading the IB for a number of years with great success before moving to a part-time position, but then reprising this role again for 2021-22. Paul’s extensive knowledge and expertise of all things IB has been a huge benefit to the school. All of the pupils he has taught have benefitted from his exemplary teaching style, characterised by fantastically clear explanations of even the most difficult of concepts. After nineteen dedicated years of service, Paul is taking on a role connected to the IB that will allow him to also spend more time with his family. We will certainly miss Paul at King’s and wish him all the very best for the future.

Mr Aidan Hayes

Kate was not only kept busy with girls’ sport, but also the excellent leadership of one of our IGCSE cohorts, as well as being appointed Assistant Head of Maclear. Kate had proven what an excellent pastoral leader she was in her role leading girls’ sport, and this was her natural progression. A brilliant tutor, loved by her charges, she struck the perfect balance between friend and taskmaster. Kate’s sense of fun and community shone through in everything she did for Maclear, and she leaves big shoes to fill. Mr

Russell McCluskey

RAQUEL SERRANO RAMIREZ

Raquel joined us as maternity cover for Bárbara Cerda Drago just as we went into our second lockdown. She adapted unbelievably well to a new school in such difficult circumstances. Raquel clearly loves being in the classroom and enthuses her pupils very effectively. She has a warm and lively classroom presence and is very successful at getting the pupils to communicate in Spanish. They have responded to her enthusiastically and her relationships with

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them have been very strong. Raquel is a creative teacher and uses target language very effectively and purposefully. She is also a very calm, good-natured colleague, nothing seems to faze her. She has been a strong team player, always happy to volunteer for extra activities and responsibilities, and has fitted really well into the modern languages department. We will miss her but are delighted that she has secured a permanent post in Essex. Mrs Helen Mulcahy

Jeanne joined the school in September 2019 as a French assistant. She only intended to stay for one year but luckily for us she stayed with us for three very successful years. She has been the most fantastic colleague and an incredibly reliable member of the Modern Languages department. She has shared her enthusiasm with her pupils in her carefully planned conversation sessions and gave her time generously in lunch-time support sessions and extra-curricular activities like ‘les Joutes Oratoires’ where King’s has been crowned champion twice under her tutelage. She has been involved in the revision sessions King’s offers to our partnership schools and has dutifully covered for colleagues on Friday afternoon CCAs. Although the bulk of her work was done with the sixth form, Jeanne has also taught bilingual French pupils in the middle school and provided some excellent cover for year 8 when needed.   She has also shared another of her passions with King’s pupils, introducing many to handball by organising a house activity. Not many would know that she has represented France in this sport and

also that during two of her three years at King’s she was also completing a master’s degree on British Politics at La Sorbone univerty.   Jeanne has contributed greatly to the King’s community and to the Modern Languages department and she will always be remembered with great affection. We wish Jeanne the very best for her trip to Costa Rica this summer and for her future endeavours. She will go far.

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Jason Stanley joined the senior school at King’s in September 2011. Over the subsequent ten years, Mr Stanley has gone on to achieve some of the best academic results in the department, and has taught all year groups from the lower school to upper sixth. Jason has also provided much support to Geography UCAS applicants and other enrichment opportunities, but he is perhaps best known in the department for his involvement in field trips and expeditions, particularly the annual excursion to South Wales where he regularly found himself jumping in and out of the River Ogmore, as well as special ‘one offs’ to Morocco (which he led), Ecuador/The Galapagos, China and Croatia.

Further to his classroom teaching, Jason spent three years as a rowing coach for the J15 and girls’ rowing squads, assisting with both training at home and overseas (including trips to Spain

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and Ireland) and races throughout the year. An additional two years of meticulous attention to detail were afforded to his role as events assistant to Bob Mitchell, supporting significant public occasions within and beyond the school, including the return of prize giving. Jason started his tenure as a tutor and form teacher in Alverstone, before taking over as an assistant Head of House in Major and then progressing to become head of Glenesk house for five years, a role to which he dedicated a great deal of time, care and energy. Towards the end of this five years Jason took on additional roles as Head of Safeguarding and Head of Mental Health and Wellbeing. Jason did all of this whilst also holding the post of Officer Commanding the Army section (CCF) for eight years during which time he oversaw the CCF Gold Duke of Edinburgh programme and led military exercises and camps across the UK. In his last full year at King’s, he held the role of Assistant Head (Pupil Welfare) and Designated Safeguarding Lead, supporting pupils, parents

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and colleagues through what were, at times, challenging circumstances.

Jason leaves King’s to join Claremont Fan Court School as Deputy Head (Pastoral). His dry sense of humour, words of wisdom, and foresight will be much missed. We wish him every success in his new role. Mr Michael

Christou

Lydie Tremayne joined the Modern Languages department at King’s in September 2018, having impressed with her creative approach and her connection with the pupils at interview. She quickly became a key member of the French department, offering support in all areas of our work: she led countless support sessions for examination pupils, contributed to the success of our debating teams for the Joutes Oratoires, managed the French stand for the European Day of Languages and led on the development of the year 7 French curriculum. Lydie has many stand-out qualities but will be especially remembered for her wonderfully collaborative approach, her genuine care of her pupils, and for always stepping up to volunteer, whatever the request. She has been an absolute stalwart in the department and will be very much missed. We wish her and her family the very best as they start a new adventure on the south coast.

Mrs Helen Mulcahy

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