Prizegiving Programme 2021

Prizegiving Wednesday 7 July 2021

Welcome David Seymour CB Whitgift Foundation Court of Governors Trinity School Committee Chair Review of the Year The Headmaster Musical Interlude Jeanette Szeto Blues for Benni by Eduard Pütz Viola & Piano Presentation of Prizes and Address

by Temi Ladega Vice-President, J P Morgan Vote of Thanks and Reflections

by Heads of School Lucy Robinson and Tom Haunstetter

Prize winners In each Form the first named student wins a prize for academic excellence and the second named for all round achievement. Other students win prizes in the Lower School for the largest number of commendations and effort.

JC

Freddie Balcombe Humphrey Bedford Aayan Abbas Emile Guiblin

JD

Hugo Morton-Ho Ed Morris Matthew Jacques Kian Patel

JP

Edward Molony James Smith Benjy Gilbert Ryan Ilmane

1A

Daniel Sarai Camilo Godoy-Murphy Aarian Nair Kane Reynolds

1B

Aaron George Ayush Shetty Noah Brown Dan Battersby

1G

Eddie Willmer Raphael Rivet Conor Woodman Thomas Karelis

1H

Joshua Bell Alex Martin Joshua Herd Finn Leadbitter

1M

Naku Debebe Jack Godfrey Max Leadbitter Danny Keenan

1S

Isaac Akohene-Voller James Bradburn Jack Prior Alix Chan

2A

Adi Nigam Akash Abbot Adam Herd Jacob Haunstetter

2B

Ayan Eswaran Rohan Kumar Tommy Wright Joel Adu-Kwapong

2G

Karson Cheng Duncan Rout Oscar Barritt Lucas Chatterjee

2K

Liam Latuszek Oliver Haydon Logan Ritchie Thabo Ncube

2R

Dihain Mallikarachchi Caleb Thompson Luca Nissim Josh Oyabayo

2S

Mattia Reuter Piran Lewis Cormac Haspel Max Gomulka

Matthew Jarvis Shield: Winner

Runners up

Max Virley Rhys Gormley William Haspel

Scoring a Century:

Joe Bradshaw

Bernstein Cup for Golf:

Oliver Haydon

Anna Marshall Prize for History: Raven Strings Award:

Bernstein Cup for Composition:

Jake Silver Adhi Sasikumar

Safi Tiotto-Smith

Mark Bishop Cup for Service:

Eli Atkinson Morgan Atkinson

Maureen Dixon Award for Community Action:

Ansh Shetty

Students in the Third and Fourth Year win prizes for significant academic progress and all round endeavour.

3B

Franco Hillier Semiloore Bankole Lars Hansen Joe Bradshaw

3D

Ashvin Jeyanandhan Ethan Thorne Richard Wild Avinav Garg

3J

Matthew Johnsen Dhyan Ruparel Max Dickinson Taisei Masumoto

3L

Simeon Wren Thushan Peiris Jake Collier Sabeeh Choudhary

3P

Ansh Shetty Adhi Sasikumar Jared Thompson Finn Sinclair

3S

Kristian Sarai Toby Fry Daniel Todd Henry Weekes

4E

Lida Zhu Joshua Speight Zain Lam Quinn Singh

4F

Ronak De Robert Wilding Liam Bridgman Matthew Lane

4G

Sumant Dinesh Ethan Hocquellet Tobe Nweke Ben Sindall

4L

Thomas Law 4M Dylan Chung Kam Chung Felix Gomulka Tom Braganza

Zach Downey Qaaym Awan Tom Baker Akash Pal

4R

Andrew Dowsett Luca Szczepaniak Alex Salama Tayen Patel

4T

Kane Benjamin Keyur Patel Theo Papacharalambous Luke Ellis

Lower Sixth Prizes are awarded in recognition of outstanding academic attainment in the examinations.

Josh Albuquerque Toby Kerr Kiran Bacchus Patrick Minton Henry Bishop Daniel Moore Prempeh Anand Clarke Louis Morris Oscar Clarke Tate Nicol Barnaby Corry Leila Nurbhai Maddy Crozier George Ogden Daniel Curtis Ella Parry-Williams Joel Cuttle Abi Poulton Joe D’Mello Varun Ravikumar Aman de Silva Max Sherwood Ben de Sousa Yash Shetty James Duffy Emily Tellem Rosemary Goodall Safi Tiotto-Smith Federico Gosnell Joshua Todd Joe Greenway James Upton Sam Greenway Surya Vijayanand Emily Howes Gracie Whitter

Prizes are awarded in recognition of consistently high effort grades throughout the year.

Oliver Almeida Emilia Petty Jack Byatt Ella Sullivan-Martin Lara Huddart-Ouabdesslam Lev Titov Iman Khan

Presentation of Trinity School National Representative Caps: Joseph Cotton, Aarav Ganguli, Oliver Scarles

Student achievements September 2020 – July 2021 In a year in which we have spent most of our time under restrictions or in lockdown, and with many of the usual opportunities unavailable, our students have still managed some wonderful achievements. Whilst we cannot share all of them, we are proud to present a selection here.

Academic

Trinity celebrated five Gold awards in the national Physics Olympiad, with particular success for Krish Oza and Daniel Warren who both came in the top 50 students in the country. Our Lower Sixth students enjoyed similar success as Joel Cuttle, George Ogden, Varun Ravikumar, Aman de Silva and Matthew Gillam won Gold awards in the Senior Physics Challenge. At GCSE level, the Fifth Year scooped our best set of awards to date, winning 14 Golds. Congratulations to James Burn, James Keers and Freddie Jemison who came joint first out of the Trinity entrants.

In the British Astronomy and Astrophysics Olympiad (BAAO), Joel Cuttle was also invited to participate in the Astro Selection Camp 2021 where students competed for one of five places on the UK National Astronomy Team.

Over 100 students from the Upper Sixth, Lower Sixth and Fifth Year competed in the UKMT Senior Maths Challenge last November. Sixteen students achieved a Gold award (the top 10% of students nationally); 31 achieved a Silver award, and 46 achieved a Bronze award. No less than 12 of our students qualified for the Senior Kangaroo round and the top four students went through to the British Maths Olympiad: Daniel Warren, Krishan Shah, George Ogden and Josh Albuquerque.

Rohan Lall achieved the best result in the Fifth Year.

Ghalib Butt was shortlisted for the prestigious essay award run by The John Locke Institute. In his essay he addressed the question “What are the most important economic effects – good and bad – of forced redistribution? How should this inform government policy?”

Third Year student, Andrew Ah-Weng, has again been selected as a finalist at BAFTA’s Young Game Designers (YGD) awards. To win this award, entrants must submit an original game and Andrew’s entry was entitled ‘Getting Out of It’. Players have a jetpack and a rope swing which they must use to traverse a small underground world.

Surya Vijayanand has been announced as the overall winner of the national Big Bang competition.

This is a science and engineering competition, and he developed a bionic forearm from scratch to replicate human hand movements. He has won a place at the London International Youth Science Forum 2021, which will be a three-week experience at Imperial College.

Varun Ravikumar and George Ogden achieved Distinction awards in the British Mathematical Olympiad, putting both students in the top 500 nationally of the best mathematicians in the sixth form age range. Sally Edser and Daniel Warren achieved Merit awards.

Upper Sixth students Theo Flanagan, Krish Oza, Krishan Shah, Daniel Warren and Aly Ramsey were all awarded gold at the Chemistry Olympiad in January, as was Lower Sixth student, Aman De Silva. Silver was awarded to Tom Leigh and Sivakami Thillainathan in Upper Sixth, with four Lower Sixth students receiving this impressive accolade: Josh Albuquerque, Matthew Gillam, Joel Cuttle and Joshua Todd.

Nine Trinity students took part in the high-profile, online History competition ‘History Bee and Bowl’. Oscar Venables came away in first place, Duncan Rout third and Henry Weekes in joint fourth place.

In the national Intermediate Biology Olympiad, Lower Sixth students Emily Howes and Ella-Parry-Williams were awarded Gold awards, while Joshua Todd and Yash Shetty received Silver awards.

Two Upper Sixth students have won highly coveted degree apprenticeships. Thomas Jakubkis has been offered a position with Ernst & Young in the field of information technology, and Thomas Merritt a place with Savills, focused on building surveying.

14 students received offers for Oxford and Cambridge for 2021, to follow the record of 15 who were given offers last year: Joshua Moore Prempeh (Architecture), Maya Weekley (Classics), Sally Edser (Classics), Scott Borland (English), Saul Packer (Mod and Med Langs), Daniel Warren (Natural Sciences), Samir J Patel (Natural Sciences), Theo Flanagan (Natural Sciences), Lucas Ferrar (Classics), Eleanor Press (English), Shola Adesina (Chemistry), James Skinner (History), Daniel Zolinsky (Music), Krish Oza (Physics)

Sport

Sixth Form student Joseph Cotton has been selected for the England U18 Hockey team and Fraser Myers was selected for the England Under 18 Hockey squad.

Tom Leigh, Theo Flanagan and Liam Writer all played national league hockey for their club sides.

Oliver Scarles represented England at U15 Football.

Aarav Ganguli represented GB and England at U17 Water-Polo.

Joshua Bellamy won the Dave Alred School of Kicking (Rugby) national competition 2020. Both he and Lucas Friday have reached the final of the competition for 2021.

Fourth Year student, Pierre Rivet, having been an integral part of Trinity’s three ESSA National Title winning teams (including one as Captain), has spent this academic year playing Water Polo for professional club White Sharks in Hanover, Germany.

Joe Bradshaw represented London Schools at U14 Cricket.

Sixth Form student, Morgan Lee, broke the Girls’ national U18 Lightweight Rowing record.

Third year student, Gabriel Bonsu-Amako, signed a two-year contract at Crystal Palace. He becomes one of six Trinity students at football academies, with Lanre Olatunji (Charlton Athletic), Oliver Scarles (West Ham United), Tobore Agbandje (Charlton Athletic), Lucy Robinson (Crystal Palace) and Camilo Godoy-Murphy (West Ham United).

Robbie Taylor in the Junior Year came second in the U12 category at the LTA Youth National Series and went through to the finals, coming fifth in the UK.

Music

Third Year student, Simeon Wren, recorded the soundtrack for a major Art Installation by Matt Copson which is to be displayed in Paris later this year.

Leo Jemison in the Second Year was selected for the key role of Miles in a film adaptation of Britten’s opera The Turn of the Screw with OperaGlassworks and conductor John Wilson.

Members of the boys’ and girls’ choirs recorded a track with the American pop singer Caroline Polachek. The track, called ‘Billions’, will feature on Caroline Polachek’s new album.

ABRSM examiners visited the school to film George Edwards, Ming-Ho Cheung and Amiri Harewood playing some of next year’s piano syllabus.

Three Trinity students were invited to play in the Jazz Centre UK’s jam sessions, which celebrated London’s famous 100 Club. Jasper Bew, on guitar, Patrick Minton, trombone, and Safi TiottoSmith, saxophone, rose to the challenge brilliantly.

Two CDs featuring Trinity Boys’ Choir received media interest. A CD featuring music by Sir John Tavener was released on the Hyperion label. In addition to the Boys’ Choir, the performers include cellist Steven Isserlis, baritone Matthew Rose, sufi singer Abi Sampa and the Philharmonia

Orchestra. The CD has featured on BBC Radio 3’s Record Review and also received favourable reviews in The Gramophone and The Guardian. The Choir’s own CD ‘A Tudor Christmas’ also received an outstanding review in Music Web International.

Members of Trinity Boys’ Choir and Trinity Girls’ Choir visited the famous Abbey Road Studios to record a soundtrack for a Disney documentary. The choir had a live link to Florida throughout the three-hour session and the producer guided the singers through the various musical cues from the other side of the Atlantic.

Daniel Zolinsky was our Steinway Scholar for this academic year.

The Trinity Musician of the Year competition was adjudicated by composer, conductor and former Principal of the Junior Royal Academy of Music, Mr Jonathan Willcocks. Jeanette Szeto was this year’s winner, with Alex Wong in second place, and Matthew Gillam in third.

Art

Hugo Barry-Casademunt has been awarded a scholarship to The Royal Drawing School.

Four students have won places on Foundation courses: Tiare Marano will study Photography and Art at Kingston, Lucas Pinto will study Costume Design at Wimbledon, Isaac Lewsey has won a place at Ravensbourne, William Davies has won a place for Photography at Farnham.

Drama

First Year student, James Roberts, played a young Mick Carter in EastEnders. This is the first time James has acted for television although he has acted on stage before; he played Charles Dickens’s youngest son in A Very Very Very Dark Matter at the Bridge Theatre, a play written by Martin McDonagh.

Sixth Form student, William Hardy, is playing the role of Tao Xu in Heartstopper, on Netflix, a SeeSaw Films’ adaptation of Alice Oseman’s graphic novels. The cast was selected after casting director Daniel Edwards’ open-auditions process, through which 10,000 people applied.

Fourth Year student, Barney Sayburn starred as Phil in The Beast Must Die – the first BritBox original thriller.

George Nearn Stuart in the Junior year played Cupid in the opera ‘Der Rosenkavalier’.

Jasper Bew is currently filming an exciting project, playing the main character in an as yet undisclosed Italian film!

Alexander Molony in the Third Year played the starring role of Peter in Disney’s Live Action remake of the film ‘Peter Pan and Wendy’, which has been recorded in Canada over the last few months.

Community

Fourth Year student and sports scholar, Max Farrell, ran 100km in ten days raising almost £3,000 for charity CALM, the Campaign Against Living Miserably, which tackles stereotypes around masculinity, suicide and mental health.

The Trinity community raised funds to thank our local NHS staff. Almost £2000 was raised, which allowed us to deliver over 110 large pizzas to Croydon University Hospital. A similar donation was also delivered to the key workers at the Princess Royal University Hospital.

Students marked National Stephen Lawrence Day by making individual pledges for changes they might make in their lives to bring about a more equal and caring society. The pledges were displayed on a tree made by Mr Chesters as a visual representation of our school commitment to creating change. Pledges were small but significant – to read a book by a specific author, to challenge racist or discriminatory behaviour when you see it, and to listen carefully to others who have experienced racist behaviour, for example. An assembly was also put together by Sixth Form student Zoe Makele and Mrs Beresford-Miller.

Volunteering is a key part of the Duke of Edinburgh (DofE) Award scheme and we were delighted that Trinity was recognised for our students’ dedication of 767 hours of service to a variety of local causes between April 2020 and March 2021.

Through our termly Charity Days students have raised almost £12,000 this year for the charities of their choice: Status Employment, Macmillan, Shelter, Shrublands Trust, Mind, Young Minds, CALM, and Comic Relief.

At Christmas we worked closely with Shirley Neighbourhood Care Scheme, who provide care and support for 200 local older residents. Our request to Trinity families for gifts and treats to pass on to the local community was met wholeheartedly and we were really overwhelmed by the generosity.

Every one of SNCS’s clients received a large bag full of gifts, sweet treats, and Christmas cards written by our Sixth Formers.

Whilst we haven’t been able to visit Malawi in person for almost two years, we have continued our close partnership with Chipwepwete Primary School and the charity Hope4Malawi. During COVID lockdown our funds were diverted to supply vulnerable families with food and provide extra soap and buckets for hygiene. Our fundraising also contributed to the completion of a project to build a bridge across the local river which connects two districts. This bridge has brought the local community to life, providing vital access to markets and allowing students to reach school safely throughout the rainy season. We have also helped with some smaller projects, from photocopying exam papers to buying more textbooks and desks to kit out their classrooms. Every member of the Junior Year competed in a Triathlon which saw them raise over £2000 in order to provide push bikes motor bike licenses and a taxi service to help Malawian teachers to get to school on time.

William Bridges in our Lower Sixth also donated a full football kit he won in an Adidas raffle which delighted the Senior football team at nearby Hope Secondary School. The future in this community is bright and we look forward to visiting again soon.

Alumni

Fourth Year students were treated to an informative talk by alumnus, computer programmer and game designer, Ewan Lamont. As part of Trinity’s Talkshop series, Ewan’s presentation covered the UK games industry as well as the future of game design. As the CEO of an award-winning, multi-player, multi-platform games developer, his company has produced games for PC, Switch and mobile.

Leo Benedict returned to Trinity to direct a group of Third Year musicians in a recording for the forthcoming BritBox series The Beast Must Die, which stars Jared Harris. Fourth Year student, Barney Sayburn, also featured in the drama.

Paul Cleal OBE helped to lead the Premier League’s ‘No Room for Racism Action Plan’. “It’s been a big part of my life for the last six months and it’s been great to work with colleagues at the Premier League and across football who have shown so much energy and enthusiasm for positive change in this area,” he said.

Amiri Harewood, will make his professional debut at the Royal Festival Hall on 10 July, performing Grieg’s Piano Concerto with the Chineke! Orchestra. Amiri graduated from Trinity last year and is currently in his first year at the Royal College of Music.

Freddie Benedict, a singer, trumpeter and voiceover artist, starred on Americast’s Got Talent podcast, and was described as ‘the best singer’ by guest judge, Piers Morgan. Freddie, 24, is currently studying at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama.

The British Athletics Championships, held at Manchester Regional Arena in September 2020, saw Trinity alumna Imani-Lara Lansiquot claim her first British title as she held off a strong challenge from Kristal Awuah and Amy Hunt in the women’s 100m final. Imani is now preparing for the Olympics in Tokyo.

Luke Saint studied music at Royal Holloway and has just graduated with a First. He has been appointed organ scholar to the acclaimed Chapel Choir and he played live on Radio 3 in September 2020 with the choir of Royal Holloway, University of London.