Lent 2017
Finalists!
U18 and U15 NatWest
Finalists...
Edition 50
Letter from
the Head Master
Dear Parents/Guardians
The Lent term is always rather frantic and, with the end in sight, I have
thoroughly enjoyed reflecting on all the action and achievements which fill the
pages of this Warwickian.
More and more of our pupils are developing their journalistic skills, with a range
of publications written and published by the boys themselves. These include
The Politics Journal, The Wordsworth, Warwick Geographer, The Buzz and The
Modern Linguist. I must commend the boys on investing the time to research
and write such insightful material and for their design and IT skills in presenting
the material.
Welcome to
the Warwickian
Inside this issue
Letter from the Head
Master ∣ P2
News & events ∣ P3
Junior School news ∣ P4
School trips ∣ P6
Music ∣ P8
The arts ∣ P10
News & events ∣ P12
Sport ∣ P14
Collaboration:
Foundation news &
events ∣ P16
Our journalism is not limited to print, with the School Report Team producing a
great video report on BBC News School Report Day. One of the topics covered
in the BBC Report was Mental Health and the stress faced by young people
today. There are many pressures that did not exist or were far less prevalent
when I was a teenager. Young people feel under greater pressure than previous
generations with regard to homework and exams; social media and the
pressures of living life under public scrutiny are clearly also factors.
Within school, a top priority is to provide the caring and nurturing environment
needed today, to help boys to manage the stresses they face. This takes many
forms, from having a School Counsellor who encourages boys to talk about their
concerns, to providing a range of co-curricular activities, which provide the
required outlet. Mindfulness is becoming widely adopted across the school, by
boys, staff and now parents. Rev Hewitt and Mr Callan are currently running a
Mindfulness course for parents over 12 weeks and this is proving very popular.
A part of this caring and nurturing environment, is to build on the strength of our
school community, as identified in the School Vision for 2021. This strong sense
of community will be demonstrated beyond doubt, when boys, parents, Old
Warwickians, staff from across the Foundation and friends of the school descend
upon Twickenham in blue and white, to support our two teams in the NatWest
Schools Cup Rugby Finals. Huge congratulations to all our rugby players, staff
and supporters on this accomplishment.
Congratulations too, to our U12A Hockey team upon securing a place in the
Midlands Finals. It was an enormous pleasure to welcome Lily Owsley, Rio gold
medal winner and goal scorer in the final, at our hockey presentation evening,
when we celebrated a very successful season.
This term saw yet another outstanding drama production, The Visit, which
engaged and entertained the student audience. Warwick and King’s continue to
tackle ambitious plays that both entertain and, on this occasion, asked important
questions about our own capacity to let money corrupt us.
Lastly, this term our musicians also deserve praise for the concerts and
performances, from Jazz at the Bridge, to the performance of Verdi’s Requiem
alongside the Warwickshire Symphony Orchestra, and many others too
numerous to mention, all of outstanding quality and all receiving the much
repeated feedback from the audience, ‘I can’t believe that is a school concert!’.
I wish our musicians the best of luck at the National Concert Band Festival finals
in April, which we are delighted to host in Warwick Hall this year.
With my best wishes for a Happy Easter.
A R LOCK
Front Cover: U18 Semi-Final at Allianz Park. Picture: schoolsportsphotography.co.uk
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News & events
Student Investors
Congratulations to three Warwick teams who are through
to the national semi-finals of the Student Investor
Challenge 2017.
The Student Investor Challenge is the UK's premier
investment competition with over 400,000 students from
2,500 schools participating.
Trading in the first phase of the challenge ran for three
months and the top 500 teams, will now take part in the
online semi-finals for a month.
Warwick teams through are:
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He who shares wins (ranked 157)
Sleep E (ranked 220)
Zorba the Greek (ranked 274)
Good luck for the next round.
Top 50 Physicist
Huge congratulations to
Anson Lei, who received a
Gold (top 50) award in the
British Physics Olympiad.
This means Anson is one of
the top 50 young
physicists in the country
and will be invited to take
part in the BPhO round two
competition.
Intense competition hasn’t stopped our students
receiving a sweep of offers from the prestigious Oxford
and Cambridge universities.
Eight students are set to study their chosen subjects
including Chemistry, Engineering, Modern History,
Mathematics and Music. This reflects the wide-range of
fields in which our students impressed the interviewers and
the success is testimony to their hard work and the support
of their teachers.
Oxford offers:
Anson Lei, Engineering, Lady Margaret Hall.
Ross Perry, Modern History, St Edmund Hall.
Ben Rhodes, Chemistry, Worcester College.
Tom Steeley, Mathematics, St Edmund Hall.
Timothy Tam, Engineering, St Edmund Hall.
At the national final of the UKMT Team Challenge in
London, the Warwick School team finished an impressive
27th out of 1290 schools. This is the best result for the
school in this competition for over five years.
Congratulations to the team; Thomas Steeley, Timothy Tam,
Joshua Brown and Douglas Boyle on this fantastic
achievement, and their hard work since September.
News & events
Oxbridge Success
Mathematics Finalists
Cambridge offers:
Oliver Layzell, Modern History, Trinity College.
Henry Day (OW), Modern Languages, Sidney Sussex College.
Morgan Barnden (OW), Modern History, Peterhouse.
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Junior School
news
Young Voices
Following an exhilarating experience at the O2 Arena last year,
Warwick Junior School again took part in this year’s ‘Young Voices’
concert at the Genting Arena, Birmingham.
After months of preparation to learn four medleys (Pop, Rock, Jazz and
Folk) and eight other songs, including a song where they performed with
sign language all the way through, the Junior School Big Choir was ready
to go. Dance moves learnt, t-shirts on and torches at the ready they set off
for the afternoon rehearsal.
The fabulous conductor, David Lawrence was introduced and rehearsals
began.
World Book Day
The boys (and staff) enjoyed a day of fun
dressing up as characters from the books
of David Walliams. There were a number
of brave boys (and two male members of
staff!) in dresses, many Demon Dentists
and Gangsta Grannies. We were thrilled
to receive a ‘like’ from David Walliams
after he read one of our tweets. Prizes
were awarded to three boys in each form
and also to Mr Lewis and
Mr Herringshaw!
Junior School boys raised a total of
£514.97 for our two local charities, Myton
Hospice and Helping Hands – well done
boys and to parents for providing such
super costumes.
A rumble of excitement from the 6,500 strong Young Voices Choir
indicated the arrival of ‘Andy’ from the ‘Urban Strides’ Street Dance Group
who helped teach the choirs all of the dance moves.
A special mention for Zack Beauclair,
dressed as Raj from the Demon Dentist,
who is just about the nicest newsagent you
could ever meet. Raj loves selling sweets,
almost as much as he loves eating them!
At 7.00pm the lights went down, the twinkling torches went on and the
show began! It was a fantastic concert with two hours of music, dance,
singing and above all, lots of fun.
Zack kindly brought in a box of sweets to
sell to the boys. He raised £14.97 and
generously donated it to our charities.
The music and songs that the Young Voices team chose this year were a
fantastic range of traditional, African, and of course the ever-popular Pop
Medley.
It was an amazing musical experience that Warwick Junior School Big
Choir will never forget.
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My favourite part was when all the grown-ups arrived at the Genting
Arena. I knew that my parents would be in the crowd watching me. We all
lit our torches in the dark. I felt excited but also nervous as I didn’t know
what to expect.
Isaac, L2H
”
I most enjoyed singing along to ‘You’re The Voice’ because we had been
taught sign language to accompany the words. It was quite tricky to sing
whilst remembering the signs but I enjoyed the challenge!
Oscar, L2H
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The best bit of the whole night was when we sang the grand finale,
‘Ain’t no Mountain High Enough’ and all the teachers had to get up and
dance!
Ed, L2K
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Towers Trip
What a Knight!
Our Third Year boys spent a week at Towers Outdoor
Education Centre. Whilst on some days they returned to
the centre soaked, muddy and tired, the boys enjoyed the
challenges put to them. Many managed to climb their first
mountain or canoe across a lake into a strong wind. The
boys learned to look after themselves and each other, as
well as improving their listening skills.
The Lower Twos put on a
magnificent performance of
What A Knight. With
outstanding individual
performances and terrific
ensemble support. What A
Knight demonstrated a
brilliant array of talent, and
has been a great triumph for
the boys.
Junior School news
Kayaking. Once out onto the open lake, the wind and waves made progress
a challenge and teamwork essential.
Stream-walking was one of the boys’ favourite activities!
The boys walked up through a stream trying to keep on
their feet whilst plotting a route avoiding the deepest water.
The water was very cold!
The staff at Towers are always fantastic and manage to find
the right balance and level of challenge.
Warwick Sevens
The 26th Annual Junior U11 Sevens, was a reduced
festival with just eight schools, due to poor weather.
Warwick played their seven matches winning six and
losing one. They conceded only five tries through the
day and outscored the opposition to be the leading try
scoring team.
Lower Two Boys at Hazard Alley
The Lower Twos visited Hazard Alley Safety Centre to
learn about keeping safe. As part of their PSHE
curriculum, they were faced with 12 unique interactive
learning experiences which included how to; dial 999, get
out of a burning building, cross a road safely and
essential first-aid. The trip was not only highly
informative, it was also very enjoyable.
Team: Osian Catlin, George Gloster, Freddie Hurley, Henry Jones,
William Osborne, James Selley, Harry Stanton, Freddy Wallis (Capt),
Charlie Whorrod, Oliver Nicklin and Charlie MacKenzie.
See page 14 for Junior School swimming news.
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School trips
Ski Trip
Madonna di Campiglio
in the Italian Dolomites
On 18 February, 47 intrepid Warwick School students
boarded a coach for the 22 hour coach journey to
Madonna di Campiglio as part of the resurrected half-term
skiing trip. Parents waited anxiously as boys handed in
money, passports etc. and were issued with their tour
hoody before being allowed to board the bus. After the
long but smooth journey, we arrived at Madonna in the
late afternoon. The boys, fortified by Mr Dee’s supply of
sweets and their own rations, were raring to go when they
saw the beautiful conditions in the resort. Ski fit was a
challenge that the boys bore with great fortitude and the
next morning we were ready to go! We were introduced
to instructors, the boys went into their groups and we
were away in beautiful sunshine and with immaculate pistes.
The boys made rapid progress and even the most
inexperienced (boys and staff) found their sense of
balance. We had six fantastic days of skiing and the boys
learned a lot from some amazing instructors who were exworld cup racers. They visited the snow parks and
learned to jump, experienced ski-cross tracks and raced
each other down the sheer, groomed pistes. Injuries,
thankfully, were rare although ice skating did cause some
damage. The boys also enjoyed ten pin bowling and bumboarding activities, as well as an in-house quiz.
The boys’ behaviour was simply outstanding and they
were a credit to the school. We hope that they enjoyed
the trip and will join us on our next venture in February
half-term 2018.
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CCF
On Target
Well done to Ben Pollock, Tyler Jeffs, Kunwoo Ha, and
Albert Williams who all attained their 1st class shooting
badges and especially to Matt Holmes who was best shot
out of all the CCFs attending and was awarded his
marksman badge.
Over half-term, boys and staff left in pursuit of culture,
cuisine and crêpes; visiting the city of Paris to meet up
with our French friends who visited us last term. We
travelled via the Eurostar, into Paris Gare du Nord, where
we found the teachers of our French friends. They were
quick to inform us that ‘Paris n’est pas supersafe’,
meaning Paris isn’t very safe, which certainly set an
interesting tone for our adventure.
However, we survived the Paris Metro’s ‘rush-hour’;
arriving at Bourg-la-Reine in the early evening, to be
reunited with our French friends.
The next day on a trip to the centre of Paris, we saw the
famous Notre Dame, and toured the many side streets,
shops and cafés that make Paris such a striking and
vibrant city. Sunday morning was spent with our respective
hosts, followed by a spot of bowling and a trip down the
Champs Élysées, where several indulged themselves in
Nutella crêpes.
`School trips
Over half-term a small group of cadets attended a LSW
cadre at Llansilin ranges. The British Army LSW, or Light
Support Weapon, is not often used by cadets, due to its
automatic firing capability, but these boys got to spend
two days learning how to use it, passing the safety test,
and then firing it on the range.
Paris Trip ∣ Michael Cox, U5S
Our party spent Monday visiting one of the most iconic
structures in the World: la Tour Eiffel, which we all
thoroughly enjoyed. We dined on the barge, La Peniche,
after which we cruised along the Seine to the Notre Dame,
a truly magnificent experience indeed.
Our final day in Paris was spent visiting the remarkable
artwork at the Musée d’Orsay, where the likes of Van
Gough; Renoir and Boudin can be viewed.
The trip was a significant revelation for most of our party,
who realised the many benefits of staying with a French
host family.
England Hockey Super 6s Final
A group of more than 60 Warwick School boys and King's
High School girls went to watch England Hockey Super 6s
Finals Day at Wembley Arena.
They watched six matches, featuring some of GB's top
players, and the pupils also had the chance to meet some
of the GB women's team, who had their medals with them.
It was a great day watching top level hockey, which
hopefully has inspired the pupils to not only improve their
game, but to continue the enjoyment of playing hockey.
Army Camp
The Lower Fifth cadets took part in an overnight exercise
at Swynnerton Army Camp, near Stafford. The camp was
in full use with members of the Regular Army, Royal
Marines, and armed police units, all on operations
training.
The cadets spent the evening on fieldcraft lessons, before
bunking down for the night. Friday’s training was dominated
by cold conditions and heavy rain, but the cadets still
managed to complete training on the assault course, have a
go on the DCCT laser range, and be part of a blank firing
exercise. The rain stopped in time for the trip home!
Well done to B Company who were the best on the section
tactics and D Company who scored highest on the DCCT.
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Music
House Music 2017 ∣ Simply the Best Yet!
There was a huge range of styles to delight a packed Bridge House
Theatre, ranging from seriously moving solos such as George Wilkes’
performance of the Elgar Cello Concerto and Sam Littell’s tear-jerker of
Empty Chairs and Empty Tables to Greville choir’s helium-fuelled
performance and their new rock band Hammer jumping to Jump!
Professional Strings
On Sunday, 12 March Warwick Hall
welcomed Orchestra Pro Anima for a
brilliant concert. The technical and
musical skill was exceptional, with
outstanding solos by Peter Adams (cello),
Eleanor Cook and Michael Bochmann
(violin). What really struck the audience,
was the obvious enthusiasm the
orchestra had for playing together, with
the wide variety of music, and fascinating
introductions from different members of
the ensemble adding further appeal to
this lovely concert.
Two ‘surprise’ items were when twelve
advanced students from Warwick School
and King’s High School played side-byside with the orchestra in Sibelius’ Andante
Festivo and were then joined by a further
eleven beginners from the Junior School
and six more from other local schools to
play Amazing Grace.
Viva Verdi!
On 18 March
Canticum, the
Foundation
Symphony
Orchestra and
the
Warwickshire
Symphony
Orchestra
performed in
the Warwick
Hall. The
concert
commenced
with Fanfare for
the Common
Man followed by a breathtaking
performance of Shostakovich’s Festive
Overture conducted by Simon Hogg.
All houses had a good turn out this year, with Greville having the best
representation and winning the Most Entertaining House cup. Guy brought a
fantastic evening to a close with a slick performance of a Night at the
Oscars, with a moving tribute to those wonderful musical stars who died in
2016 arranged by Sam Young: David Bowie, Leonard Cohen and Prince. Guy
scooped the most Oscars and was overall winning house! Well done all!
Best group vocal: 1st Greville, 2nd Guy, 3rd Brooke.
Best group instrumental: 1st School, 2nd Guy, 3rd Greville.
Best junior solo: 1st School (Josh Hill), 2nd Oken and Greville (Sam Littell most promising performance and Taha Elamin).
Best senior solo: 1st Oken (George Wilkes), 2nd Guy (Sam Young), 3rd
Greville (Henry Giudici).
Best accompaniment: Sam Young (Guy).
Best compère: Barney Whittaker (School).
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The entire second half was devoted to
Verdi’s Requiem performed by orchestra
and chorus and conducted by Roger Coull.
This colossal work received tumultuous
applause and the entire audience united to
acknowledge the amazing work done by
Mrs Green and our choir of 120 singers.
Congratulations to:
Luke Barker (M5T) who has been
selected as a member of the National
Youth Brass Band of Great Britain
(NYBBGB). This is in addition to
retaining his place in the National
Children's Brass Band of Great Britain
for the third successive year.
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The standard of musicianship and entertainment achieved by the school
ensembles at the two nights of Jazz @ The Bridge was simply stratospheric.
The concert commenced with talented musicians of Little Big Band playing a
selection of numbers including: All of Me, Chameleon and Minnie the Moocher.
This was followed by the Warwick School Jazz Collective led by John Fleming
performing Sigmund Romberg’s Softly, as in the Morning Sunrise. Jazz Combo, a
larger ensemble of older students led by Mr Storer followed with Teen Town, an
up tempo Latin number featuring the unique talents of bassist extraordinaire
Barney Whittaker.
The second half was no less spectacular commencing with the phenomenal Big
Band led by the athletic Mr Lindsay. This impressive and highly disciplined group
performed: Blues in Hoss Flat, Tastes like Chicken and Can’t Buy Me Love.
Music
A highlight of the evening was The Lingus Project, which concluded the first half.
Sixth Former, Sam Young, transcribed the Snarky Puppy piece, and produced
working parts for an elite ensemble of students and teachers.
The concluding items were four solo features from the National Concert Band
Festival (NCBF) multiple Platinum winners Jazz Lab, who played: Alianza, Besame
Mucho, Samantha and Over the Rainbow. Wendy Miles, from King’s High School,
gave a consummate performance of Something’s Gotta’ Give and Jazz Lab burnt
the house down with their encore Johnny Come Lately.
Mr Storer, Head of Jazz and Rock, handed a
cheque to Deborah Slater from Acorns Hospice.
The Bridge House Theatre was filled to capacity for two successive nights and
raised £3,416.00 for the Acorns Children’s Charity.
Missed it first time round? Go to Warwick School Music on YouTube
to see the most amazing collection of Warwick School music.
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The arts
Exhibition of
You#g Local
Artists
Our ‘Exhibition of Young Local Artists’ was established in
1985 and started with just five schools. Thirty-two years
on, the exhibition has grown and this year, 29 local
primary schools took part. This year also saw a change of
venue from the Bridge House Theatre to Warwick Hall,
which gave a new dynamic to the whole event.
This event brought together local primary schools to
celebrate art and showcase young talent.
The array and diversity of the pieces exhibited was
phenomenal, from The Friendship Tree to 3D Cake Slices;
Scream to James and the Giant Willow Weave Peach.
Warwick Junior School
Animation Project by Upper Two boys
There was a wonderful display of work on show and on
4 February, the young artists and their families gathered for
a special 'Opening Ceremony'. The exhibition ran for a
week, and the public were able to come and view the
extraordinary range of artwork on show.
Alveston C of E Primary School
James and the Giant Willow Weave Peach Year 5/6
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The Croft Preparatory School
Louise Bourgeois, a Collective
Portrait, by Year 5
The Visit
The arts
OW and Guardian Theatre critic Michael Billington
considers ‘The Visit’ one of the 101 greatest plays ever
written, and whilst set shortly after the Second World War,
this morality play feels even more relevant today.
Performed by Warwick School and King’s High School
Lower Fifth and Middle Fifth students, the cast rose
superbly to the challenge of performing to an entirely
school audience bringing the biting satire of small-town
life perceptively to life.
In Guellen (a fictional European town), a wealthy former
resident offers the town everything they need to drag
themselves from the gutter but at a price – they must
murder the man who wronged her years before. Led by the
superb Harvey Dowsett as the ill-fated and aptly named
Alfred Ill, we witnessed a community buying more and more
on credit anticipating getting the money and in doing so
sealing his ultimate doom. Maya Evans brought the coldhearted but justifiably revengeful Claire Zachanassian
brilliantly to life with her frightening entourage led by Kieran
Brooker as her butler and her bizarre blind companions
Koby and Loby (George Eames Matthews and Thomas
Walter). The weak resilience of the townspeople was
typified by Tom Bell’s Mayor whose comic superficiality was
wonderfully cringeworthy as he struggled to impress the
wealthy visitor with platitudes.
Sam Barnes' comically bombastic policeman offered little
relief for the worried target as he revealed the money he
was spending in anticipation of the inevitable death of Ill.
Ben Pollock played the spiritually confused Priest with a
maniacal fervour and Laurie Gartshore’s hilarious teacher
who nearly leaks the truth to the press both provided
powerful examples from a community slowly becoming
corrupted by the money on offer.
This was a sophisticated and superbly realised production
with a strong ensemble from both schools which asked us
all important questions about our own capacity to let money
corrupt us.
Congratulations to:
Samuel Littell (L4O) who successfully auditioned at
the RSC for the part of Lucius in Julius Caesar.
Taha Elamin (L4G) who has been offered a place in
the Youth Music Theatre summer residential
programme 2017.
Sam Bain (L5Y) who secured a place into The
National Youth Music Theatre in London.
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News & events
Pancake Day ∣ Concours de Crêpes
The Lower Fourths marked pancake day with their own Concours de Crêpes. This
relay race between the seven forms involved moustaches, berets, garlic and frying
pans! Congratulations to the winning form L4T.
School Report
Madame Thomas and her team of
reporters, once again took part in the
BBC News School Report, a national initiative for
schools.
All in one day, the team researched, wrote and
presented their news report, covering the Dutch
election, the Queen giving Royal Assent to Article 50
and more locally, the school’s involvement in National
Autism week. The other feature on Warwick School
considered the issues of mental health and the support
provided within school. Do watch their report on the
Warwick School website.
Congratulations to the team on a very impressive day’s
work!
Reading Aloud
Warwick School Sixth Formers visited Priors House Care
Home for an interactive reading session, as part of the
home’s activities for World Read Aloud Day. World Read
Aloud Day is an annual event which celebrates, across
100 countries, the importance of reading aloud and
sharing stories.
Some of the residents shared their own short stories with
the students, both fictional tales and stories written based
on a specific event in their lives. Our boys spent time
reading aloud, discussing favourite books with residents
and then everyone tucked into a delicious afternoon tea.
“By taking part in World Read Aloud Day, residents had the
opportunity to engage in a brilliant day of storytelling and
reading aloud activities with the students from Warwick
School. We’d like to thank the pupils for helping us to
celebrate this special day.” Jon Sneath, Priors House.
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Literary Society Visit
The English Department took a group of Lower Sixth
students to London. The day started with a visit to The
British Library. Students undertaking the English Language
A Level course were treated to a workshop by renowned
socio-linguist Johnny Robinson, whilst those studying
English Literature took part in a literature in-context
workshop, which gave them the chance to take a more
‘hands on’ approach to exploring the socio-historical
aspects of the texts they have been studying.
The group then headed to The Old Vic to watch a
performance of Tom Stoppard’s Rosencrantz and
Guildenstern are Dead, a re-working of aspects of
Shakespeare’s Hamlet, starring OW Josh McGuire and Harry
Potter himself, Daniel Radcliffe. Following on from a fantastic
performance, Josh kindly did a question and answer session
with the boys, which was much enjoyed by all.
Charity
total raised this
academic year
£8,073.38
Business Lunch ∣ Christian Leith, L6St
We were treated to a Business Lunch talk on product
design from DCA Design, Warwick. The title was
Designing Products to Improve People’s Lives – you
have the power to make a difference. The two
speakers; an industrial designer, who studied at
Loughborough University and an engineer, who
studied at Birmingham University, explained how they
co-ordinated the practical/functional design of a
product with the aesthetic/exterior design.
Sixth Formers lucky enough to meet Daniel Radcliffe during the interval.
Meanwhile, students in the Upper Sixth were accompanied
by Mrs Wyatt to watch a live streaming of the National
Theatre’s production of Ibsen’s Hedda Gabler. Starring Ruth
Wilson, this version of Ibsen’s play has been highly
acclaimed by critics, and didn’t fail to impress.
We received some fantastic advice on what routes we
could take to get into product design. We all gained the
impression that their work was very interesting,
practical and purposeful: we really got a sense of their
passion and enjoyment for their job. It was an inspiring
and insightful Business Lunch.
News & events
Their main message of the talk was about how products
can be designed to improve lives. This ranged from
making toothbrushes attractive and fun to encourage
children to use them, to insulin pens and fire
extinguishers. It was stressed how this requires
creativity and innovative thinking. An example of how
product design improves lives, is their design of a fire
extinguisher which was more intuitive and easier to
operate. The new design enabled a bin fire to be
extinguished in a quarter of the time taken by that of a
traditional fire extinguisher.
Both groups of boys enjoyed these opportunities to further
enrich their study of the subject.
Green Team Report
The chance to get involved in last half-term’s competition
to boost biodiversity across Warwickshire was
enthusiastically grasped by some
forms. To help animals and birds
who struggle to get enough food
to survive the cold temperatures
in winter, the boys were asked to
provide food for wildlife in their
gardens through a birdfeeder.
A number of eco-heroes came
forward, sent in their selfies and
helped birds such as robins,
blackbirds and chaffinches as well
as squirrels to survive at a time of
year when their usual food supply is scarce. There were two
forms in particular who had fantastic numbers of entrants
and both were rewarded with cookies! In second place, with
73% of form members participating, was L6Da and the
winners, with 81% participation, was L4L, strongly
encouraged by their form tutors Mrs D’Arcy and Mr Moore.
Jacob Fenwick (U5B) and Christian Leith (L6St) with DCA Design.
Congratulations to:
Tyler Jeffs (U6H) who has
been awarded the highest
award for a young person in
scouting. He has been
awarded the Queen’s Scout
Award and will receive this at
Windsor Castle, after Easter.
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Sport
Sevens Winners
Well done to our U14A Sevens squad on winning the
Warwick, Solihull and Bromsgrove Sevens tournaments.
Junior School Swimming Success
Huge congratulations to our U11 swimming team.
At the Midlands Prep School Relays, held at Bromsgrove
School, the team won the freestyle and medley relay races
and broke the freestyle relay record, which had stood
since 1999.
The swimmers then went on to compete in the mixed stroke
and freestyle relays in the ESSA West Midlands qualifying
round. They had decisive victories in both events and have
now qualified for the ESSA national finals to be held in
Sheffield in May.
Congratulations to George, Isaac, Charlie and James.
U12 Hockey
Congratulations to the U12A Hockey Team on
finishing runners-up in the County Cup.
Winning all their group matches, the team secured a
place in the final by beating Bilton Grange 2-0.
In the final, against Solihull School, Warwick came from
1-0 down to level the score, but lost on penalties in a
nail-biting finish.
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Congratulations to:
Finishing as runners-up has secured the team a place in
the Midlands Finals after Easter. Good Luck!
James Challenor (U4B) who has achieved his Black
Belt in Shukokai Karate, having started the sport just
over 5 years ago.
Hockey ∣ Lily Owsley Visit
Angus Macdonald (U5B) who has been selected for
the Scotland U16 rugby squad which progresses
towards a 4 nations tournament in April.
We were delighted to welcome Olympic Gold Medallist
and GB hockey player, Lily Owsley MBE, to our hockey
presentation evening.
Alhassan Khali (L5T) who came 3rd in the French
Junior Squash Open that took place in Lille.
Sport
Blue and White all the Way!
Warwick School has once again had an outstanding rugby season
culminating in both the U15 and U18 teams going to the Twickenham
Finals of the NatWest Schools Cup.
48th Annual Warwick
Sevens Tournament
Warwick School hosted our 48th
Annual Sevens Tournament where
rugby talent came from far and wide
across the country, with 30 schools
competing in 200 matches.
Whatever the outcome, this is a simply stunning achievement for the
school. Warwick School is one of just three schools to have had both U15
and U18 teams at the Finals in the National Cup’s history, and the only
school to have done so twice; in 2014 and 2017.
Huge congratulations to both rugby teams on their semi-final victories at
Allianz Park, to secure their places at Twickenham. This will bring Warwick
School to a total of six appearances in the Finals in the last five years.
It was an extremely muddy day of
fantastic competitive rugby, with cup
wins from Dulwich School (U16) and
Warwick School (U15 and U14).
Warwick came out as overall winners,
receiving the most points, and awarded
The Freeborn Shield, named in honour
of Ken Freeborn who served Warwick
School as Head of Physical Education for
35 years from 1957-92.
Charlie Hayter OW and England 7s
player, presented the trophies to the
respective age group.
U15 Warwick School 33 – 22 Ivybridge College.
Photo: schoolsportsphotography.co.uk
U18 Warwick School 30 – 17 Felsted School.
Photo: schoolsportsphotography.co.uk
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Collaboration
Lego Day at Warwick Prep ∣ Adi Narayan,
Mr. Men and Little Miss Books
The Third Year boys have been busy putting on their
Roger Hargreaves’ hats and creating their own Mr. Men
and Little Miss books.
James Hughes and Samuel Underwood, U2CA
On Tuesday, ten boys from the Upper Two were invited to
join pupils from six local schools for a Lego STEM day at
Warwick Prep School.
We worked in teams of five on a variety of activity challenges
related to Science, Computing, English, History and DT, using
Lego robotics equipment as well as tablet computers. The
activities that we undertook included: building a frog’s
evolution from tadpole to froglet and programming a robot to
drive 180cm (we weren’t allowed to use a ruler, so we used
Samuel instead as he is 149cm tall!). The hardest challenge
was to make a Lego bridge which could support 2kg. We
succeeded in making a bridge but sadly it collapsed. The
challenges definitely helped us with our resilience and
collaboration and we still think that we need to work on our
communication skills. Overall the day was fantastic!
Once the boys had thought of an idea, they planned, wrote
and redrafted a story. The task proved quite challenging for
the boys as they had become so used to writing detailed,
complex stories and descriptions, but now they had to write
for a much younger audience in a simpler style. When the
writing was complete, the boys illustrated their books by
hand and finally, had them bound together. They then
visited the Prep School and shared their books with the
Year Twos; they seemed to thoroughly enjoy hearing the
stories.
Sadly, Roger Hargreaves passed away nearly 20 years ago
but his son, Adam creates Mr. Men and Little Miss books
today. A few of the boys’ books were sent off to Adam for
him to read; hopefully we’ll have a reply from him as we
certainly have some budding young children’s authors in
our midst.
Project One Campus ∣ Update
The design work for the development of the five
new buildings and masterplan is progressing
well. Senior staff at King’s High School and
Warwick School have continued to provide
valuable input to the development of teaching
spaces and play areas.
Young Enterprise 2017
Warwick School and King’s High School have three Young
Enterprise teams, who promoted their products at the YE
trade fair in the Royal Priors, Leamington Spa.
Team Vinci had their "pack a punch" hole punchers, Team
Azure sold a brightly coloured language story book for
children and Team Reflect sold a book to capture precious
memories.
The internal arrangements of a number of spaces
such as the new King’s library and dining areas
have been further developed and the images on
the website provide an indication of how these
spaces might look when they are built in the main
school building.
The Council has undertaken a consultation period
on the planning application for POC and we await
an update on progress with the application.
Subject to achieving planning, the project is
scheduled to start on site this summer.
www.projectonecampus.co.uk/
Congratulations to Team Azure, who then went on to be
overall winners for the West Midlands area with their
language story book.
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