Expa nding Gordonstoun Junior School will welcome a new Year 1 class in September. Robert McVean, Head, said: “We've had many requests for younger children to join Gordonstoun, so we are very pleased to be expanding and creating a new Year 1 class. Our main aim is to encourage a love of learning and knowledge."
ART SALE On 4 December, Christie’s presented a stand-alone sale comprising approximately 200 lots from the collection of Rugby School. Lucas van Leyden’s rare drawing, A Young Man Standing, sparked fierce competition resulting in a sale of £11.5m. The school’s governing body will use the proceeds, totalling nearly £15m, to benefit the current and future students, including building a new museum space on the school site for the unsold art works.
“The Christie's sale raised nearly £15 million for the benefit of students”
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St Mary’s Shaftesbury pupil and Elite Dance Scholar, Isabelle Evans, will perform in the world premiere of Matthew Bourne’s Romeo and Juliet in May. “It's a wonderful achievement and testament to Isabelle's hard work and commitment to dance alongside her academic studies,” said Headmistress, Maria Young,
Writer Karen Bennett and photographer Julian Calder travelled across the UK to capture the passion of the craftsmen and women whose education was funded by the Queen Elizabeth Scholarship Trust. The result is a fantastic book: A Celebration of British Craftsmanship. Available from qest.org.uk
OX B R I D G E ADMISSIONS Published figures reveal the schools and colleges with the highest number of Oxbridge admissions are: Westminster School; Eton College; Hill Road Sixth Form College; St Paul’s School; Peter Symonds College; St Paul’s Girls’ School; King’s College School and Magdalen College School.
“The government doesn’t realise it's way behind when it comes to AI in education... they're still locked in the 20th-century mindset without even realising that they are. What needs changing is the mindset.” ETON COLLEGE A N T H O N Y S E L D O N I N T H E S P E C TAT O R
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