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Advent Poetry Competition
After a fierce and stimulating discussion, the judges of this year’s Advent Poetry Competition have decided to award a runner-up for both Senior School and Sixth Form categories, and an overall winner. This year’s entries showed a playful ear for metre and rhyme, an often compelling handling of language, and a hearty display of balladry.
The judges have decided to award a runner-up prize for poetry in the Senior School to Rosanna M for her poem Autumn – an inventive fantasia on the season incorporating half-rhyme, mimetic typography, and direct speech, in the best tradition of E E Cummings. The runner-up prize for poetry in the Sixth Form goes to Lucie T for The Monster living in my Home for her juxtaposition of metrical control with domestic violence.
The winner of this year’s Poetry Competition is Beatrice T for Greta on the Argo, an impressively self-assured rumination on gender conflict. Greta on the Argo dextrously uses classical allusion to play with tonal shifts on an issue of contemporary relevance.
Thank you to all who entered. The quality and creative range of this year’s entries is a testament to your inventiveness, passion, and enthusiasm.
This term’s ABRSM exams
Congratulations to these pupils on their ABRSM exams. A special well done goes to Benjamin I-C who achieved two distinctions at Grade 8 on the same day, and to Grace S for her Grade 8 distinction:
Christopher C - Piano, Grade 7
Hannah C - Piano, Grade 6
Francesca D - Singing, Grade 3
Abigail G - Violin, Grade 4
Marnix H - Clarinet, Grade 7
Benjamin I-C - Organ, Grade 8 with Distinction
Benjamin I-C - Singing, Grade 8 with Distinction
Amelie L - Violin, Grade 6
Benjamin M-S - Piano, Grade 4
Amélie R - Treble Recorder, Grade 8
Emma S - Singing, Grade 5
Pippa S - Clarinet, Grade 4
Grace S - Violin, Grade 8 with Distinction
Ernest W - Piano, Grade 6
Tiffany Y - Piano, Grade 3
UKMT Senior Maths Challenge
Forty-one College pupils participated in the Senior Mathematics Challenge in November with some terrific results. We had seven Gold Certificate winners, 13 Silver ad 11 Bronze, meaning that over 75% of the pupils received a certificate of some kind – an amazing result. Particularly well done to the Gold certificate winners who have all qualified for the next round, the Kangaroo paper.
They are:
Angelina J
Peter H
Randa H
Sayaka H
David L
Michael T
Luke Y