Isle of Wight
The Year 7 boys took PGL’s Little Canada Centre on the Isle of Wight by storm this year.
The Year 7 boys took PGL’s Little Canada Centre on the Isle of Wight by storm this year.
Some beautiful musical performances by former and current NCS boys marked the start of Wykeham Day 2019.
The Year 8 and 8S boys spent a year, on and off , working on their ‘special subject’ independent research projects.
What a spectacular way to bring the year to a close!
We may have been four days out, but it was nearly midsummer’s night when the NCS leavers performed the annual playreading of A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
At the end of Trinity I was honoured to take part in the second concert of The Choristers of Great Britain in support of the charities, Friends Of Cathedral Music and the Diamond Fund for Choristers.
This year’s Sheldonian Concert was held in honour of NRG, just a few weeks before his retirement as Headmaster.
The calendar of leavers’ events kicked off this year with a Year 8/8S trip to Stratford to see ‘As You Like It’ at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
We were delighted to welcome Oliver Holt, chief sports writer at The Mail on Sunday, and former Sports Writer of the Year and Sports Journalist of the Year, to talk to Year 8 about a career in journalism.
New College Choir joined with the choirs of King’s College, Eton and Winchester Colleges, in Cambridge to mark the retirement of King’s Director of Music, Sir Stephen Cleobury.
On May Day, Year 5 went to the Oxford Synagogue to learn more about Jewish worship.
As Hilary Term came to a close, the choristers found themselves on a flight to New York, ready for their epic eighteen-day tour of the USA.