YEAR 2012/13 Charles Larminie (Elstree, h) and Alex Budd (Bedford Prep, b) spoke at an International student science conference in March at St Paul’s School. The conference was part of the buildup to a Radley exchange visit to Japan in October 2013.
Activities Personal Achievements: Edward Wakefield
(Ludgrove, h), Head of the RAF section of CCF, has been awarded his Private Pilot’s Licence at the minimum age possible, 17. Paul Fernandez (Biology Dept) won the ‘Perth 50k’ race. His time of 3:04:07 ranks him as the tenth fastest British 50k runner of all time.
57 Remove Geographers and five dons
travelled to Iceland at the end of the Easter holidays. The boys engaged in activities, such as hiking on a glacier, swimming in outdoor sulphur pools, eating geothermally-heated eggs, being serenaded by a Viking, spotting whales in Reykjavik harbour, gazing at icy waterfalls, clambering to the top of volcanic craters and venturing into the steamy heart of a geothermal power station. Duke of Edinburgh Awards.
Seven 6.2 boys completed all sections of their Gold Awards. 29 boys have passed their DofE Gold Expedition in the last year. Record numbers of new participants, 44 6.1s, started their Gold Award this year.
A team of Radleians, dons and ‘others’ ran in relay on a treadmill to break the existing 100km Guinness World Record by 15 minutes.
George Nikov (h), Hugo Hesselgren (Westminster Under, e), Robert Fok (German Swiss Int, HK, e) and William Bowen (Dragon, d) came second in a national ‘Grimm Tales’ competition organised by Oxford University. John Le Carré presented the awards. In June, the Removes were invited to Downe House School for the Bab Al-Islam Conference.
Charities: F Social was responsible for producing and selling ‘Radley Apple Juice’ using College apples picked by boys and Radley families. This year £500 was raised for the Helen Clarke Fund. Callum Chamberlain (Moulsford, e) raised a large sum of money for ‘Children in Need’ by selling copies of his own CD, entitled ‘Serenity’. G Social held a 24 hour football match in aid of local educational charity, the Hawkwell Trust. Freddie White (Shrewsbury House, g) scored over 100 goals. Ben Bowman (DCPS, k) took part in the Nightrider charity cycle race in London. Luke Fitzalan Howard (Westbourne House, k) worked for the charity the Order of Malta Volunteers taking severely disabled pilgrims to Lourdes. Freddie Florin (Ludgrove, j) swam the English Channel in July, for Starlight and Ufton charities. James Johnston (Summer Fields, j) rode in the Mongol Derby, 1,000km across the Mongolian Steppes. He is raising money for the Radley Foundation
Armed Forces Fund. Over Easter 2013, Barney Bennett (Horris Hill, j) canoed with Hugo Mayes (Horris Hill, c) from Devizes to Westminster in aid of Juvenile Diabetes Research. 40 Radleians spent two weeks in Honduras
this summer. The first week was spent in the jungle of Cusuco National Park. Although a great deal of fun was had trekking through the jungle, using ropes to inspect the canopy and showering in waterfalls, the project had a more serious aspect. The boys were helping scientists survey the biodiversity of the area to prepare a report for the Honduran government outlining the ecological value of the area. The second week was spent studying life on a coral reef off the coast of the island of Utila, during which time many boys gained their PADI advanced open water qualification.
Gehandu Partnership: in July 2013, seven
6.1 Radleians, led by Mark Jewell, SuzieLouise Naylor amd Chris Ronaldson spent three weeks in Tanzania. Mount Kilimanjaro was climbed successfully by six boys who reached the summit at 5,895m, and then spent eight days with Gehandu Secondary School teaching lessons and doing extracurricular activities. Whilst there, English learning through the medium of the mobile phone was successfully trialled. The water pump for which boys raised £5,000 was seen in operation.
About 100 Fifth Formers spent their
Wednesday afternoons on a range of projects helping in the local community. Three teams of musicians and actors provided entertainment in three different care homes each week. A team of classicists ran an introductory course in Latin at the Oxford Academy. Eight local state primary schools hosted different groups for a variety of activities. These included particularly challenging work, like helping at specialist schools for the deaf, or for children with severe learning difficulties, and after-school Chess clubs or extension Maths at regular state primaries.
Fifth-formers visited the Russian cities
of Moscow and St Petersburg, with a tour of the city of St Petersburg and visits to the Hermitage (the Winter Palace), Tsarskoe Selo, the Yusupov Palace, the Smolny Institute and the Peter and Paul Fortress. In Moscow the party saw Red Square and the Kremlin, Stalin’s bunker and the Museum dedicated to the Great Patriotic War.
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