Head's Newsletter 19 January 2018

link: https://www.ticketsource.co.uk/ event/221979

Tickets are priced at £8 for adults and £5 for concessions. Alternatively, students can bring cash to the Drama Office and buy tickets at school. British Physics Olympiad Congratulations to the boys below who sat the British Physics Olympiad. This year over 1,740 students participated. The paper was designed to stretch and challenge the top young physicists in the country in a national competition, so congratulations to our students for participating. Every question was indeed a real challenge. The papers have now been marked and I am delighted to report that two of our boys achieved a silver and bronze medal, placing them in the top 300 students in the country. MORE COMPETITION SUCCESS Congratulations to a team of Year 10 students who entered the European Astro Pi Mission Zero Challenge competition. They successfully designed and wrote a computer program that will be run on a Raspberry Pi in the international space station in early 2018. The students involved were: Kaylan Bakrania, Priyansh Mahajan, Anupa Adikary, Ravi Parmar, Vishal Kumar, and Druhan Mewasingh. NAME AWARD Chinmay Joylear Silver Sathanan Pathmanathan Bronze 1

Tickets are now on sale for this year’s main school production ‘The Madness of George III’ by Alan Bennett. George III’s behaviour has often been odd, but now he is deranged, with rumours circulating that he has even addressed an oak tree as the King of Prussia. Doctors are brought in, the government wavers and the Prince Regent manoeuvres himself into power. Alan Bennett’s play explores the court of a mad king and the fearful treatments he was forced to undergo. It is about the nature of kingship itself, showing how by subtle degrees the ruler’s delirium erodes his authority and status. The play is taking place from 5–8 February at 7 pm in the Drama Studio, and tickets can be bought online from the following