Head's Newsletter 9 July 2021

COMPETITION WINS

BAFTA YOUNG GAMES DESIGNER AWARDS

2021 WORLD TODAY ESSAY COMPETTION

The globally renowned policy institute Chatham House and the Financial Times received over 200 entries from Sixth Form students world-wide for their 2021 World Today essay competition. This year's winner was Thomas Cowan (12LL) whose essay on the topic of What Makes a Good Leader drew on Max Weber’s two archetypes of leadership, the magician and the warlord, to compare Steve Jobs of Apple and Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg. The panel of judges comprising Lord Jim O’Neill, Chair of Chatham House, Sophie Daud, Chief Executive, Future Leaders Network, and Andrew Jack, Global Education Editor of the FT praised Thomas's work for its "originality of approach" and described his piece as "well researched and written" and "easily the most stimulating" of the submissions. This is an outstanding achievement and Thomas deserves our warm congratulations. His essay has recently been published in the Financial Times (click here to read it) and he will receive his winner's certificate at Chatham House later in the year.

Congratulations to Mattia Scalzo, Benjamin Samyani, and Jules Wray who have been selected as National Finalists in the BAFTA Young Games Designer Awards. They are the youngest in their age category of 15 to 18 years. They designed and coded a beautiful platform game called Déjà vu using the Phaser Javascript framework. The gameplay is totally unique, with retro graphics and range of addictive levels. Play it here: https://deja-vu.shrike7921.repl.co. The full BAFTA article is here: http://ygd.bafta.org/competition/competition- news/2021/déjà-vu.

We wish them all the luck for the online awards ceremony.