NEWS SCHOOLS
Gabbitas success
Eltham College’s
X Factor contest
Schools with the X Factor
Pupils competing in their own X Factor-style talent shows are an increasingly popular way for schools to raise money for worthy causes. The competition also gives students an opportunity to express their creativity. Eltham College staged a two-day event in March, with teachers playing the roles of the dreaded judges. Over £5,000 was raised and distributed between various charities, including AZAR, which is building a school in Tanzania. The band 4Play emerged triumphant on Thursday’s show, while Friday’s winner was David Voisey with his version of ‘Your Song’. In true X Factor fashion,
Chemistry olympians
Harrow School achieved a record haul in the 2010 Chemistry Olympiad, the UK-wide event organised for Upper Sixth students by the Royal Society of Chemistry. A total of four students achieved Gold certifi cates, nine boys
won Silver certifi cates, while seven received Bronze. “What is so impressive is to see so many Lower Sixth boys getting certifi cates in what is an Upper Sixth exam,” praised Harrow’s Dr Andrew Worrall.
www.harrowschool.org.uk
the audience on the night were treated to footage of the audition process and backstage footage of the rehearsals for the big night.
www.eltham-college.org.uk
In March, Channing Senior
School also hosted a talent show, raising £1,300 for the charity Action Against Hunger in response to the earthquake in Haiti. One of the outstanding acts was Suzie McDermott, 11, who sang and played guitar to a self-penned song in front of a wildly enthusiastic audience of girls, parents and staff. The concert was organised by the Sixth Form offi cers just two weeks before they step down from their roles.
www.channing.co.uk
Travel chaos due to the volcanic eruption provoked an impressive response from boarding schools in April Gabbitas Education reported that 70 per cent of its guardianship pupils were unable to return for the start of term. However within 24 hours, the majority of schools had set up systems to supply work via email. Flights resumed just in time to avert too many public exams being missed. www.
gabbitas.co.uk
Skiing starts snowball of
sporting success
The 20th annual British Inter-School Ski Challenge in Les Houches, France, was an outstanding success for London-centric schools. Surbiton High School, Kingston upon Thames, fi nished fi rst out of the 142 UK schools that entered the competition. Surbiton High School is famed for its Ski Race Club, which has produced British Olympic Skiers such as Chemmy Alcott.
www.surbitonhigh.com
Not far behind and outstanding for their age, King’s College Junior School, Wimbledon’s ski team edged into the top 10, fi nishing ninth in the overall standings. Taking into account that many of the schools at the challenge had ski racers as old as 18 years of age representing them, the success of the junior school’s team (pictured) is a remarkable achievement.
www.kcs.org.uk
Economic whizz kids
A team of Sixth Form economists from Dulwich College won the National Final of the Bank of England and The Times Target Interest Rate Challenge, seeing off 285 other school teams. Their superb presentation on how to achieve infl ation targets, made to TV cameras, won over an impressive panel of judges including Charles Bean (Deputy Governor of the Bank of England), Anatoly
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Kaletski (Associate Editor of The Times) and two other members of the Bank of England’s Monetary Policy Committee. Mervyn King, Governor of the Bank of England, presented the Dulwich team with a cheque for £10,000 for the college. Even more impressively, each student was off ered a paid internship at the Bank of England this summer – a priceless opportunity.
www.dulwich.org.uk
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SUMMER 2010 FIRST ELEVEN 9
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