Head's Newsletter 7 October 2016

Harvard/Yale Evening at Tiffin Last Friday we were delighted to welcome Janet Irons, Senior Admissions Officer at Harvard, and Keith Light, Associate Director of Undergraduate Admissions at

from several distances and the winner is the competitor with the highest score at the end of the stages. Many congratulations to Oliver Tse in Year 13, who emerged as London Youth Games Archery Champion. For the uninitiated a Topper is an 11 foot 43 kg (95 lb) sailing dinghy constructed from polypropylene, and is popular as a racing boat or for sail training. The RYA run events and talented young sailors are given specialist race coaching. Many congratulations to Magnus Handley in Year 11, who won the Stride Treglown Welsh Topper Open held at Llandegfedd Sailing Club. WELSH TOPPER OPEN RACE

Yale, who gave a very informative and enjoyable talk to sixth formers thinking of applying to American Universities, about their respective universities, their undergraduate liberal arts programmes, admissions criteria, qualities they seek in candidates, and also in general about opportunities for higher education in the U.S.

NEW HOUSES

Pictures below are the House Masters of the two new Houses: Darwin Wilberforce, led by Mr Karski (left) and Turing Nightingale led by Mr Costello.

At least 250-300 students and parents from over 25 south west London schools attended the event.

The formation of the new houses has drawn interest from far afield with Dr Glasscock of St John's College, Cambridge, writing to say that our already well established connection with the college has been strengthened, at least in name, as both Erasmus Darwin (grandfather of Charles) and William Wilberforce were students there!

LONDON YOUTH GAMES

Archery is an ancient sport and was historically associated with hunting and warfare. It is now a modern sport and features in the Olympic Games. Competition involves a minimum of two archers accumulating points by hitting a circular target. Archers shoot at the target