Weekly Update

WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 175 January 14, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY CHANGES TO ADMISSIONS CRITERIA Tuesday 18 January - Y10 booster injections Wednesday 19 January -7pm Y7 Soloists’ Evening AND ENTRANCE TEST Tuesday 25 January - Y10 RE mock exam Thursday 27 January - 7pm Y8 Parents’ Briefing on Op- tions

REMINDER - DEADLINE FOR TANZANIA 2012 Please note the deadline for the submission of paperwork is Thursday 27 January. If you have any questions please contact Mr Beggs.

YEAR 7 SOLOISTS’ EVENING - 7PM WEDS 19 JANUARY The Year 7 Soloists’ Evening will take place at 19.00 on Wednesday, 19 January. It is free of charge and all students, parents, and friends of the school are welcome to come and see the debut performances at Wilson’s of some very promising young musicians!

INSTRUMENTAL LESSONS A system change has resulted in a change of letter for each boy on the timetables. Please check your timetable carefully for both the time and letter for your lesson. Admissions Criteria

NEW MUSICAL ENSEMBLE REHEARSAL TIMETABLE The school is currently consulting on some changes to our admis- The updated Musical Ensemble Rehearsal Timetable is sions criteria for 2012. These can be found on our website. The on the back page of this newsletter. Please contact Mr Governors would welcome written responses to this consultation Lissimore if you would like to know more about musical by 25th February. activities for students at Wilson’s. Parents will be aware that the school was recently subject to an BETTE GRAY-FOW adjudication on our admissions criteria. We were pleased that the objections were dismissed and that the adjudicator consid- The Music Department ered our admissions criteria entirely lawful and proper. However, is delighted to announce the Governors have given due consideration to some of the the appointment of Bette concerns that were raised, and wish to address them in a way Gray-Fow to its staff. Ms that we consider to be fair and in accordance with the school’s Gray-Fow will direct the principles. Chamber Choir and co- direct the School Choir We remain committed to a selection process based on rank order in addition to providing because we are convinced that this is the fairest way of allocat- vocal tuition. She is an ing places. Places will therefore continue to be offered on the ba- experienced soloist and sis of performance in the entrance test. However, we propose to choral director who has make a change to the way in which we apply this criterion. This worked with Peter Pears change will help us to ensure that, within the rank order process, and Imogen Holst and has there is greater scope for candidates living in the London Bor- given performances at ough of Sutton to be offered a place at Wilson’s. the Royal Festival Hall and on Classic FM. Her warm Under our current system, candidates’ test papers are marked, ups and gospel arrangements have been published and she is the scores are standardised and aggregated, and the rank order a regular contributor to Music Education publications. She is is finely differentiated by up to five decimal places. This means much in demand as an adjudicator and teacher (of singing and that ties between candidates are rare, even though a number of bassoon). Please contact Ms Bright if your son is interested in candidates may share the same rounded score. For admissions in taking up singing lessons and Mr Lissimore if your son would like September 2012 and beyond, we propose grouping candidates to join any of the choirs. in bands of marks, so that, for example, candidates who have marks of say 145, 146 and 147 – and who can be considered to have, for all intents and purposes, the same academic ability - FRANCE: LA RIVE WATER SPORTS TRIP will be placed in a band together. Places will then be offered on the basis of the bands. There are still four places available for the above trip. The dates of the trip are 28 May - For the vast majority of candidates this will have no effect: all of 4 June 2011 and the cost is £620. Please con- the candidates in those bands that come entirely within the total number of places to be offered will be offered a place, irrespec- tact the Finance Office for further information tive of where they live. We anticipate that this will account for and forms. approximately 90% of the places offered (or around 135 of the 150 places available). Issue 175 January 14, 2011

The change will affect those candidates in the band within which the WINNERS OF THE ANIMATED CHRISTMAS last place is to be offered. Within this final band: CARD COMPETITION “places will be allocated in the following order: firstly to candidates whose home address is within the London Borough of Sutton in the Years 7-9 order of the distance of their home address measured in a straight 1st Place - Daniel Clarke - 7G line from the main front door of Wilson’s School; secondly to those 2nd Place - Kofi Anin - 7H candidates who live elsewhere in the order of the distance of their 3rd Place - James Crawford - 7H home address measured in a straight line from the main front door of Wilson’s School”. Years 11-13 1st Place - Kieran Patel - 11C Entrance Test Congratulations to all of them. The Governors have also decided to change the form of our entrance test.

Currently, candidates are tested in English, Mathematics and Verbal 6th FORM DEBATING NEWS Reasoning. We have decided to remove the Verbal Reasoning test, so that from September 2011 candidates will only be tested in English The 6th form have a number of competitions coming up. and Mathematics. This is in order to ensure that the entrance test On 15th January, ten boys will debate in the SOAS Schools playing field is as level as possible for all candidates, regardless of Debate in London. The boys will take part in three gru- any social advantage or disadvantage they may have. elling unprepared rounds, as well as a prepared round debating ‘This house would negotiate with terrorists’. Although we discourage coaching for the entrance test, we are aware that many candidates are coached. We have therefore come to Darren Mindham and Kes Daood verbally crucified John the view that our test should include only elements that are familiar Fisher in round 2 of the United Nations Debate, proposing to all candidates. Candidates whose parents cannot afford or do not ‘This house believes that too much choice is a bad thing’. wish to provide for coaching may be in the position of never having They go on to face either Wallington Boys or St Philom- seen a Verbal Reasoning paper before the test, and are arguably at ena’s in round 3. a disadvantage, whereas all candidates are regularly taught and as- sessed in English and Mathematics in their primary school. Damjan Veljanoski and Brandon Lundini stormed through the Cambridge Regional Rounds, and will take part in the Our English and Mathematics papers will also be in a form that is Cambridge Regional Finals at the end of this month. as close as is practicable to that familiar to candidates from their Key Stage 2 experience. The content of the tests will continue to On 31st January six boys will take part in the prestigious be based on the content of the Key Stage 2 National Curriculum for Oxford Debate Competition in central London. English and Mathematics. The English Speaking Union takes place on 1st February at Coloma Convent School and two students will oppose CLASSICS ESSAY COMPETITION ‘This House believes hosting major sporting events are a drain, not a benefit, to society’. Congratulations go to John Candia, Michael Vereycken and Alexan- der Micallef whose entries for the national Jowett Sendelar Essay Well done to all boys who have taken part, or are taking Competition 2010 were ‘commended’. All three chose to write ‘Why part in debates in the near future. Sixth form debating is did Athens lose the Peloponnesian War?’. still being run in room 10 Friday lunch times – it’s not too late to join! See Ms Androlia for further information. CROYDON ADVANCED MATHS COURSE

The Croydon Advanced Maths Course, started by Dr Cooper and Dr Robson at Old Palace School, is now entering its third year. The FOOTBALL FIXTURES course is aimed at the top sixth form maths pupils in the area, and Saturday 15 January - Wilson’s vs. Ewell Castle is designed around the Cambridge STEP (Sixth Term Entrance Pa- 2nd XI Home per) maths resources. The upper sixth sessions are for those pupils whose university offers include requirements in the STEP papers 3rd XI Home as well as A level results. The lower sixth sessions are designed for U15B Home students who either are thinking of studying maths at University U14B Home or who would just like to do extra maths problems. Any pupils U13B Home interested in attending these sessions, which will be held at Old U12B Home Palace School in central Croydon on most Tuesdays this term from Wednesday 19 January - Wilson’s vs. Archbishop 4 to 5.30 p.m., should see Dr Cooper as soon as possible. Tenison’s

CHESS RESULTS RUGBY FIXTURES Monday 17 January - Wilson’s vs. Shirley High Wilson’s vs. Hampton Y10 Away Tuesday 18 January –Wilson’s vs. Shirley High Wilson’s A won 4 – 2 Y7 Away Wilson’s B lost 2-4 Wednesday 19 January – Wilson’s vs. Ibstock Yr 11 Away Issue 175 January 14, 2011

FOOTBALL RESULTS RUGBY OFFER London Wasps vs Toulouse Saturday 8th Jan - Sunday 23rd January 2011 – 3pm Kick Off Due to the established link with London Wasps, Wilson’s vs. Richard Challoner Wilson’s School can purchase discounted tickets 1st XI won 3-0 for the Heineken Cup tie against French giants Toulouse. The game is of great importance for both Ola Fashoro scored 2, Tobi Oluwu scored 1 teams as top spot in the pool is still up for grabs. Tickets are £10 for adults and £5 for concessions 2nd XI won 6-0 (Family and Friends are welcome). For more infor- U15A won 7-0 mation and an order form please contact Mr Collins U14A won 3-0 in the PE Department. If tickets are ordered before U12A won 3-2 20 January they will be sent to your home address; U12B lost 3-5 otherwise you can pick them up from Ticket Office 2 on the day of the game. All travel directions can be found on the club website www.wasps.co.uk.

Wilson’s School Music Ensemble Timetable – from January 2011

LUNCHTIME AFTER SCHOOL

Monday Chamber Choir (B Gray-Fow) Senior Choir (TRL/B Gray-Fow) Junior Strings (C Taylor) Chamber Ensemble Coaching (C Taylor) Brass Group (R Willey)

Tuesday Wind Band (TRL/HB/P Sanders) Junior Orchestra (HB) Guitar Ensemble (J Warwick)

Wednesday Intermediate Jazz (S Ashworth) Senior Orchestra (TRL) Flute Group (HB) Cantate Rhythm – please contact Mr Kimber

Thursday Wind Ensembles (H Dennis) Pianists Workshop (TRL) Senior Jazz (S Ashworth)

Friday Junior Jazz (S Ashworth) Theory Q&A (HB/TRL) WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 176 January 21, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILSON’S SCRUM WITH THE BEST!! Tuesday 25 January - Y10 RE Mock Exam Thursday 27 January - 7pm Y8 Parents’ Briefing on Op- tions Friday 28 January - Y11 Final Options Issued

U6 TUTORIAL - MONDAY 24 JANUARY There is no U6 tutorial on Monday 24 January due to the number of boys involved in exams, but thereafter it will run as usual each Monday during period 1 from 8.30 – 9.30am and attendance is compulsory.

REMINDER - DEADLINE FOR TANZANIA 2012 Please note the deadline for the submission of paperwork is Thursday 27 January. If you have any questions please contact Mr Beggs.

HISTORY NEWS Revision sessions are being run for Year 11 students after school (3.35pm) in room 20 on the following dates:- January 27 February 10 March 3, 17 and 31 April 28 For more details please contact Mr Englefield. Last Wednesday, Wilson’s rugby stepped up a level with the deliv- HISTORY CLUB (Week A) and HISTORY READING GROUP ery of a state of the art scrummage (Week B) continue to take place on Thursdays. They are machine. This will allow all teams to both in room 20 during the lunch break. practise one of the major parts of the game safely. The 1st XV were the first GCSE GEOGRAPHY REVISION GUIDES to try it with a coaching master class For AQA A Specification by former England and British Lion forward Nigel Horton (see photo- SPECIAL OFFER PRICE ONLY £2 graph below). Nigel played 2nd Row, This discount is only available on orders made before and after hard work and dedica- Friday 11 February. To order a copy, a cheque, made pay- tion made his international debut able to Wilson’s School Private Funds and clearly labelled in 1969, aged 20 and was capped with the student’s name, form and ‘Geography Revision’, 20 times. Nigel has also played for should be returned as soon as possible, but no later than Toulouse in France and toured New 11 February 2011. The payment should be placed in the Zealand with the British and Irish red post box situated in the main foyer. Lions in 1977. The boys thoroughly enjoyed the session and hope to COMPUTER PROGRAMMING CLUB take all advice in to the remainder of The club is starting on Tuesday 25 January in Room F4 the season. 1:20 -1:50pm and is open to all Year 9 -11s.

MATHS DROP IN SESSIONS - Thursdays 1:15pm-1:50pm Y7 SOLOISTS’ EVENING in F15 Congratulations to all of the Year 7 students who gave their début per- Years 7 and 8 formances at Wilson’s in the Soloists’ Evening in the Bowden Room on Stuck on your homework? Wednesday night. There are clearly some very talented and promising Want to improve your assessment marks? young musicians – many already boosting the ranks of Junior Orchestra Not sure about a new topic? and a range of other ensembles! Bravo.

FOOD CLUB To help develop cooking and kitchen skills the school is setting up a “Lets Get Cooking” Club which will run after school on a Thursday for Y9 and during lunch for Lower Sixth. If any parent would like to become involved and is willing to share their expertise or would like to learn the best way to slice an onion then please do get in touch. To make the club a success we are looking for parent volunteers to help out with the year 9 after school club. Any interested parent should contact Mr. Jones through the school office.

Issue 176 January 21, 2011

PRIMARY MATHS MASTERCLASSES ACADEMY STATUS Wilson’s Mathematics Department had the pleasure of hosting the Primary Maths Master Classes again this year. At their meeting on 13 January 2011, the Governing Body The classes began in September, with the final session on resolved unanimously to convert to Academy status, with Wednesday 12 January. It was attended by Year 6 children effect from 1 April 2011. The response of the Governors from Foresters Primary School, Amy Johnson Primary School, to representations received during our consultation Saint Elphege’s RC Junior School and Banstead Community can be seen on the school’s website. Academy status Junior School, and even one Year 4 student from High View Primary School. The children, who were very able mathemati- will affect the way in which the school is funded, but it cians, enjoyed studying areas of mathematics outside their will entail no change to the name, ethos, admissions normal curriculum and even learnt a new way of multiplying arrangements or curriculum of the school. using Napier’s bones! Our own lower sixth students assisted in the running of the classes, providing support and encour- agement to the younger children, and they even learnt a Y9 and Y10 “MASTER CHEF” thing or two themselves! CHALLENGE

Teams are invited to apply for the Year 9 and Year10 Master Chef BRITISH MATHS OLYMPIAD We now have the results for the Maths Olympiad taken in challenge. The challenge is to prepare two main course dishes and December between the snow falls. Two sixth form students, one dessert. One of the main courses must be vegetarian and the Daniel Hunt and Alex McMillan, performed exceptionally well dessert must be fruit based. Teams will represent their houses in the and gained distinctions. Joseph Sutcliffe (U6) also performed two rounds of the competition, Year 9 on 15 February and Year 10, very well and just missed out on a distinction. Despite the 16 February. Two teams from each round will go through to the final disruption due to the snow, a record nine Wilson’s pupils sat on 2 March. Judging will be on aspects such as planning, taste and the Olympiad paper. presentation. Entry is through your form teacher.

To help prepare for the competition, the school chef Mr Pryce- FREE THINKERS’ CLUB Hawkins has kindly agreed to run two theoretical master classes on Wednesday 2 and Wednesday 9 of February. The Free Thinkers Union is continuing every Monday at lunchtime in Room 25. We will be discussing a range of philosophical issues led by both students and teachers. SOAS DEBATE - 15 JANUARY 2011 10 students took part in 4 rounds of British Parliamentary style CHESS RESULTS debating at The University of London. There were some notable performances: League and Cup match In the debate “This House Would Negotiate with Terrorists” Harry Gower & Will Ries 1st Kes Daood & Nav Rajamohan 1st Wilson’s A beat Reigate Grammar A 4 – 2 Kieran O’Donnell & Brandon Lundini 2nd For the fourth year running Wilson’s qualify for the Surrey zone final of the National Schools’ Chess In the debate “This House would require all university students to Tournament. Congratulations to all those who do compulsory community service” competed. George Driscoll & Conrad Jefferies 1st

In the debate This House Would elect its MPs using proportional League Match representation Kieran O’Donnell & Brandon Lundini 1st Wilson’s D beat Reigate Grammar B 7 - 5 Damjan Veljanoski & Darren Mindham 2nd Harry Gower & Will Ries 2nd Kes Daood & Nav Rajamohan 2nd George Driscoll & Conrad Jefferies 2nd

In the debate “This House would allow Soldiers to conscientiously FOOTBALL RESULTS object to participate in specific conflict” Kieran O’Donnell & Brandon Lundini 1st Saturday 15th Jan - Damjan Veljanoski & Darren Mindham 1st Wilson’s vs. Ewell Castle Harry Gower & Will Ries 1st George Driscoll & Conrad Jefferies 2nd 2nd XI drew 2-2 U15B won 3-1 As I’m sure the boys will agree, SOAS was the toughest competition we have entered. The boys did extremely well, and held their own U13B lost 1-5 when battling against some extremely experienced debaters. U12B won 7-1

The debating team will be entering the Oxford Debate on 31 Janu- Notable performance from Robert Cooke who ary, and the ESU Mace on 1 February. If you are interested in debat- scored a hat trick. ing, please see Miss Androlia. Issue 176 January 21, 2011

TABLE TENNIS FOOTBALL FIXTURES

Wilson’s vs. Royal Russell Saturday 22 January - Wilson’s vs. Cardinal V The School U19 and U16 teams had fixtures against Royal 1st XI Home Russell on Tuesday. The U19s had a very comfortable win 2nd XI Home to maintain their unbeaten record. Michael Ho, Harry U15A Away Frost and Adheeb Hiba-Saibo won both their matches U14A Home while Chris Hogg won one. Wilson’s won both of the U13A Away doubles to record a 9-1 win. The team have two league U12A Away matches left against Epsom College and Whitgift. The U16 team also had a comfortable win. Alex Yee, Kartik Iyer Wednesday 26 January - Wilson’s vs. Sutton Grammar and Andrew McDonald won both singles - Andrew played 1st XI Training particularly well - and Alex Rolls won one. Wilson’s again 3rd XI Home took both of the doubles. The U16s have their remain- 4th XI Home ing league matches against Whitgift, Epsom College and 5th XI Home Coombe. On Sunday, both the U19 and U16 teams travel 6th XI Home to Kemnal Table Tennis Centre, Sidcup, to play in the zone U12B Home finals of the National Schools Competition. Wilson’s vs. Sidcup RUGBY FIXTURES The School U16 team performed extremely well at Sidcup RUGBY FIXTURES in the National Team Championships, last Sunday. They Mon 24th Jan – Yr 10 vs Woodcote (A) had to play four matches with the winners and runners up going through to the next round. In the first match Tues 25th Jan – Yr 7 vs Woodcote (H) they comfortably beat Sackville from East Grinstead 7-1 - Yr 8 vs Woodcote (H) and in the second match beat Aldworth from Basingstoke 5-3. Alex Yee won both his singles and Amar Shukla won Thurs 27th Jan - Yr 9 vs Woodcote (H) the vital game 12-10 in the fifth to secure the victory. We unfortunately lost 5-3 to the very strong Stanley Park team with Liam Grant and Amar losing tight matches in the fifth game. To qualify we had to win our last match against William Parker from Hastings. The first four singles resulted in a 2-2 draw but a great effort from each member of the team meant we won the lat four matches and therefore gained a 6-2. Alex Yee and Alex Rolls both won two. Liam, playing at No. 1, won five out of his eight matches, Alex Yee at No. 2 won six, Alex Rolls at No. 3, also won six and Amar Shukla won four. An excellent performance from the whole team which means that they travel to Cheltenham on Sunday 6 March for the round of the last 16. The U19 team also qualified for the same round when their opponents dropped out. Their next round is at Southall on Saturday 5 March. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 177 January 28, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY SCHOOL CAPTAIN Wednesday 2 Feb - Late start - 9.40 a.m. Thursday 3 February - 4 - 6.30 p.m. Y9 Parents’ Evening Congratulations to Michael Moneke Tuesday 8 February - 4 - 6.30 p.m. Y11 Parents’ Evening who has been appointed School Captain for 2011. He will take up Y9 PARENTS’ EVENING office shortly once the new House Please note students will be bringing home letters detail- Captains have been elected. ing appointments by the end of this week. Michael studies Maths, Physics, Chemistry and Biology in the Lower TERM DATES 2011-2012 6th and has been a long stand- ing member of our 1st XI. He was Autumn Term 2011 awarded the Wilsonian Medal in Year 10 having represented the Monday 5 September INSET school over one hundred times Tuesday 6 September Term Begins for pupils football, cricket, athletics and Monday 26 September Entrance Exam/INSET basketball. He is a member of the 24 – 28 October Half Term Sixth Form Council and a Year 7 Friday 16 December Term Ends mentor. Spring Term 2012 MOCK TRIAL COMPETITION Thursday 5 January Term Begins for all 13 – 17 February Half Term Friday 30 March Term Ends

Summer Term 2012

Monday 16 April Term Begins for all Monday 7 May Bank Holiday 4 June – 8 June Half Term Friday 20 July Term Ends

SIMS LEARNING GATEWAY (SLG) In 2009-10 we experimented with providing Year 8 par- On Saturday the school Mock Trial team travelled to Snaresbrook to com- ents with access to reporting information electronically. pete in the London round of the national Bar Mock Trial competition. Our This trial is now at an end and electronic access is no lon- team of Braman Thillainathan, Salik Khan, Tom Sutherland, Tim Au, Karim ger available. We are going to evaluate this trial alongside Abu-Seer, Tom Coates, Ahmed Naqvi, Mirae Tejura and Arslan Rana per- other considerations prior to making decisions about the formed very well indeed: they won their league of the competition and SLG’s long term future. For the 2010-11 academic year, were one of two teams out of ten to make it through to the London final. parents will continue to receive reporting information in They were just beaten in the end by an excellent team from Ysgol Tregib the usual way via the post. – since this team are from Wales, our students can justifiably claim to be the London winners! It was a lot of hard work and the boys performed GCSE GEOGRAPHY REVISION GUIDES excellently on the day. Although we were disappointed not to make it to the national final, everyone was very pleased by the Wilson’s perform- SPECIAL OFFER PRICE ONLY £2 ance in such a tough competition. This is the best placing we have ever This discount is only available on orders made before achieved at a Bar Mock Trial Event. Tom Coates deserves special recogni- Friday 11 February. To order a copy, a cheque, made pay- tion as, at the last minute, he stepped in to cover Samir Dewan, taking on able to Wilson’s School Private Funds and clearly labelled the Herculean task of playing four witnesses in one day! with the student’s name, form and ‘Geography Revision’, should be returned as soon as possible, but no later than 11 February 2011. The payment should be placed in the National Cipher Challenge Some of Wilson’s most inquisitive minds have been slaving away over red post box situated in the main foyer. the past few weeks trying to decipher devious messages set as part of a national competition. Six teams from Wilson’s, ranging from Year 10 to FAST FOOD FIGHTING FAMINE Upper Sixth took part. A cipher is an algorithm that encrypts a message On Friday 28 January, 9B will be selling tickets (50p each) based on letters and characters. They have been used throughout history to boys at the back of the lunch queue to allow them to to prevent secrets from falling into the wrong hands. The challenge itself the front of the queue. This will take place every Friday consisted of eight individual challenges, each with two different ciphers and the money raised will go to charities to help famine set over 10 weeks of escalating difficulty, with the final challenge being relief. released on 16 December. Points were based on speed of completion. With a total prize pool of £3000 this was a very competitive event, and FREE THINKERS’ CLUB Wilson’s had two teams that completed the challenge successfully – Ol- The Free Thinkers Union is continuing every Monday at iver Myerscough and Victor Mikhno coming 9th in the country, and team lunchtime in Room 25. We will be discussing a range of Codebreakers in the top 40. Next year, we hope to have even more teams philosophical issues led by both students and teachers. enter the competition and perhaps even win. Issue 177 January 28, 2011

LET’S GET COOKING - MASTERCHEF

The following teams have entered the Y9/Y10 Master Chef Chal- lenge

Y9 15th February

Form Name 9B Jamie Barry, Muntej Chana, Aaron Mallet 9G Andrew Kilner, Harry Perkin, Andrew McDonald 9H Harri Coninx, Akeel Karim, Harry Rogers HOUSE MUSIC 2011 9S Ahmed Elgharably, Daniel Skinner, Kyriacos Theophilou

Y10 16th February Wilson’s well-renowned ‘Young Musician of the Year’ competition becomes a house event this year with a substantial number of Form Name points available for every kind of instrumentalist and vocalist in 10B Ollie Taylor, Declan Jones, Joe Howlett Junior and Senior classes. Each house will also be able to enter 10C Karim Abu Seer, Robert Webster, Michael Vereycken one ensemble. 10H Robin Leverton, Tom Wadsworth, Oli Tollford 10S Sam Kimber, Satchit Srikanth , Harry Curtis The opening rounds will take place each afternoon from 7-10 March in the Bowden Recital Room with the Grand Final on Mr Pryce Hawkins will be running master classes for the teams in Wednesday, 30 March in the Main Hall. Entry forms will be order to develop the skills of promoting and presenting the dish- available from form tutors by the end of next week; the deadline es that the boys are preparing. These master classes will cover for return of these forms will be during the week after half term the areas that teams will be judged on and will provide details of (Wednesday, 2 March). how the competition will be conducted. These sessions will take place in the school’s teaching kitchen at 3.40 p.m. on Wednesday Full details of the timings for the competition will be published 2nd and Wednesday 9th February. shortly; parents are warmly invited to both the opening rounds and the Grand Final. Last year’s senior winner of the ‘Young Musi- cian’ competition was Jonathan French (now studying Percussion at the Royal Academy of Music).

The only change in points from the end of last term so far is the result of the Year 7 5-a-side competition 1st Brecon 50 points, 2nd Hayes 40 points, 3rd Green Coat 30 points, 4th equal Camberwell and Southwark 20 points There are still huge numbers of points to be won this term in the following competitions, so get involved: • Middle School Master Chef • House Music Issue 177 January 28, 2011

FOOTBALL RESULTS FOOTBALL FIXTURES Saturday 29 January - Wilson’s vs. City of London Wednesday 19 January Wilson’s vs. Archbishop U15A Away Tennisons U14A Away 1st XI won 3-1 U13A Away (maintaining their 100% record in the Surrey U12A Away League) Saturday 29 January - Wilson’s vs St. Paul’s Thursday 20 January Wilson’s vs. Greenshaw 1st XI Home U15A won 7-2 2nd XI Home Oliver Sitch scored 5 goals. (Quarter Final District 3rd XI Home Cup and District League) Wednesday2 February - Wilson’s vs. Reigate Grammar Saturday 22 January Wilson’s vs. Cardinal 5th XI Home Vaughan 6th XI Home 1st XI won 13- 0 Tobi Olowo scored a hat-trick and 6 assists Wednesday2 February - Wilson’s vs.Whitgift 2nd XI won 6-0 U15B lost 0-4 against U15A Cardinal 2nd XI Home Vaughan 4th XI Home U14A won 6-1 U13A won 4-0 U12A won 5-0 RUGBY FIXTURES

Monday 31 January - Wilson’s vs. Edenham RUGBY RESULTS Yr 10 Away

Wilson’s vs. Ibstock Place Tuesday 1 February - Wilson’s vs. Carshalton Y11 lost 15-0 Yr 7 Home Y12/13 lost 10-0 Wednesday 2 February - Wilson’s vs. Whitgift Yr 12/13 Away

BASKETBALL RESULTS Thursday 3 February - Wilson’s vs. Edenham Yr 9 Away Wilson’s vs. St. Andrew’s

U19 lost 55-63 PETERHOUSE VELLACOTT HISTORY PRIZE

Write an essay of between 2,000 and 4,000 words. Include a Bibliography and, if necessary, a Web-ography. Essays may be CHESS RESULTS hand-written (if clearly legible) or word-processed. Please use A4-size paper and only write on one side of each page you use. Wilson’s A beat Whitgift A 5-1 Competitors are advised that the main focus of the essay Wilson’s D beat Whitgift B 9.5 - 2.5 should not be material previously or currently being studied by the entrant as part of their sixth form studies. The entrant may refer to topics that will be studied in future so long as, at the time of the closing date, the entrant has received no formal tuition on the topic in question. All entries must be accompanied by a signed statement from their Head of History HANS WOYDA MATHS confirming that the essay is the entrant’s own work and that the main focus of the essay is not something which he has hitherto studied in the sixth form classroom. Wilson’s lost to Kingston 38 - 42 The deadline is 18th March 2011. To get a list of topics please see Mr Englefield in the history office WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 178 February 4, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILSON’S DEBATING SUCCESSES Monday 7 February - Y8 Speed Options Day Tuesday 8 February - 4 - 6.30 p.m. Y11 Parents’ Wilson’s has entered a number of new debate competitions this Evening year including the ESU Public Speaking Challenge. A late change Friday 11 February - Y11 Final Options to be re- meant that Ben Flook had only 24 hours to prepare as main turned speaker, but the team (with chairman Jack Taperell and questioner Wednesday 16 February - A Level Recital Evening Rob Webster) still managed a close third place, only one and a half Friday 18 February - PSHE Activities Day points behind the eventual winners. Many thanks also to Karim Abu-Seer, who was on standby in case Jack did not recover in REQUEST FOR HELP time. The MFL department still has some cassette tapes which it would like to use in class for teaching. For ease of use we would like to transfer the tapes into a digital format. There are machines that will do this such as the ‘Ion Tape Express’ . If you possess such a machine, please would you consider lending it to Mr Winstone for a short time. Please contact Mr. Win- stone at the school if you feel you can help. Thank you. SCIENCE TALK BY OLD WILSONIAN Last Thursday lunchtime a former student of Wil- son’s, Dr Tim Mason, gave a talk to aspiring chemists and biochemists in Year 11 and Lower 6. Tim is the Admissions Tutor for Pharmacy and Biomedical Sci- ences at the University of Portsmouth. The boys en- Four more Y10 students enjoyed their first competitive debate in joyed a very informative talk describing Pharmacy, the ICYD which took place at the Oxford Union on Saturday, the Pharmacology and Biomedical Science degrees and teams of Jack Bolt and Luke Kosky, and Arslan Rana and Satchit subsequent career paths. Tim was educated at the Srikanth, taking first and second places respectively in the second Camberwell site but was pleased to see that we still round of debate. have the two statues in our Greencoat Courtyard transferred from the Camberwell site. SIXTH FORM COOKERY CLUB Sixth Form Cookery Club starts on Thursday 10th February during the lunch break. There are 12 places for a programme of 7 sessions at a total cost of £7. Students who wish to join should give their name to Milan Patel (L66) along with a cheque for £7 payable to Wilson’s School. SCHOOL CHOIR Staff and students are reminded that all singers from Years 9-13 (and staff) are invited to Senior Choir, which rehearses on Thursdays after school in In addition, Luke Kosky took part in the emergency debate, and the Music Room. has spoken in the Oxford Union Chamber, a most prestigious venue! Meanwhile, Harry Gower and Will Ries from Y11 won their A LEVEL RECITAL EVENING - 7 P.M. 16 FEBRUARY heat in the southern district round of the Mace Debate, and are Wednesday, 16 February at 7.00 p.m. Wilson’s through to the next round of this premier competition. Many School’s most advanced intrumentalists and vocal- congratulations to them both. ists take to the stage for performances that will contribute to their AS and A2 level exams; all parents and students are welcome. FAST FOOD FIGHTING FAMINE The lunchtime launch of “Fast Food Fighting Fam- ine” on Friday proved a success with students from 9B quickly selling tickets to raise funds for charity. There are a maximum of 24 tickets available, so have your 50p ready for lunchtime every Friday when you’ll find representatives from 9B selling tickets at the back of both queues. Issue 178 February 4, 2011

British Physics Olympiad - Round 2

Once again Wilson’s students did well in the British Physics Olympiad winning medals and commendations. Congratula- tions go to the following:-

Alex McMillan - Silver Award Mayghal Vijapura - Bronze Award

Commendations: Jack Winterburn, Oliver Myerscough, Julian HOUSE MUSIC 2011 Regan, Matthew Jones, Annoj Inpanathan, Joseph Sutcliffe, Aditya Gupta, Johan Rekers, Paul Teare, Beojan Stanislaus, Kevin Chan, Daniel Hunt, Maksymilian Tobiasiewicz and Calum Application forms for House Music will be available by the start Perera. of next week. Foreign Language Poetry Competition

The Times Stephen Spender poetry translation competition is an open competition in which entrants translate a poem in any language, classical or modern, into English. Entrants must be British residents or British citizens. (The Stephen Spender Trust encourages submissions from children and adults who are British residents but have roots in other countries.) Entrants under 18 may enter the competition free of charge. In the U18 competition there are prizes of £100, £150 and £250. Any pupil who is thinking of entering should contact either Mr. Shaw or Mr. Winstone for further details.

Here’s a famous French poem by Paul Verlaine to whet your appetite. How would you convey not only the ideas that lie behind the poem but also the all important imagery and sound world? Would you try for a rhyme scheme; what rhythm would you choose?

Judo at Wilson’s Les sanglots longs Des violons Judo will be starting at Wilson’s next term as a major new extra-cur- De l’automne ricular activity as well as an option in games lessons for Years 9 and Blessent mon coeur above.. The coach will be Mr Andrew Ede who has a very impressive D’une langueur record of achievement in the sport, having been both national Junior Monotone. and Senior Champion and a medallist in a number of international competitions. We have a number of boys at the school who also Tout suffocant have very impressive profiles at local and national level and they will Et blême, quand also be assisting Mr Ede. We are confident that this is going to be a Sonne l’heure, very popular and successful activity. As always we intend to create Je me souviens our own range of in school House competitions and, of course, to Des jours anciens enter as many competitions as possible to provide opportunities Et je pleure; for achievement in a wider field. If you are keen to take part, see . Mr Molyneux to register your interest. The clubs will take place on Et je m’en vais Tuesday (Years 9-10) and Thursday (Years 7-8). Au vent mauvais Qui m’emporte Deçà, delà, Pareil à la RUGBY FIXTURES Feuille morte

Monday 7 February vs. Shirley High Year 11 Geography Students buy Yr 10 Home four goats!

Wed 9 February vs. Sutton Grammar Thank you to all the Year 11 Geography students who raised Yr 12/13 Home £81.50 for the charity Farm Africa. The organisation provides training and support for poor rural communities in a way that is appropriate for their needs. We are told by the charity that the amount raised by our students will be enough to buy four goats. The students apparently wanted a camel – but didn’t quite raise enough! You can still contribute at www.farmafrica.org.uk Issue 178 February 4, 2011

NSPCC Number Day – Year 7 Oxbridge Offers 2011

Year 7 boys recently participated in a ‘Number Day’ maths lesson Congratulations to the following boys who have received offers of and raised a generous £958 for the NSPCC. places at Oxford or Cambridge for 2011:-

Number Day is an annual event organised by the NSPCC which Oxford comprises maths lessons being held with activities specially Ben Newman-Sanders History arranged for raising sponsorship for the NSPCC. This year, the Oliver Bishop Law activities included a highly competitive magic square challenge Lawrie Clarke Chemistry and a ‘Who wants to be a Mathionaire?’ competition. Year 7 were Alex Mahatantila Medicine very enthusiastic in all activities! Cambridge Gill Packer, the school’s advisor for the NSPCC, visited Wilson’s Jack Di Lizia Economics and spoke with Year 7 about the work that NSPCC does and how Victor Mikhno Maths and Computing children can contact ChildLine. Gill also received the cheque David Parke German on behalf of the NSPCC in year 7 assembly this week – handed Alex Springer Economics over by the three highest fund raisers. Overall, Year 7s have been Alex McMillan Maths particularly generous this year so a big thank you to Year 7 and to Chris Hogg Geography friends and family who generously donated. Mayghal Vijapura Maths John Lindsay History If you would like to know about NSPCC and Childline please visit their web site https://www.nspcc.org.uk

If you have any concerns about a child or young person, you can call the NSPCC Helpline on 0808 800 5000. Children and young people can call ChildLine confidentially on 0800 1111 to find out more about how to seek help.

Y7 RUGBY REPORT

Wilson’s vs Carshalton Won 37-7

For the first time all season, Wilson’s School was able to field a full 15 man side to face local rivals Carshalton Boys. The game started well for Wilson’s, retaining a lot of ball before Xavier Teague scored underneath the posts To Bee or not to BEE! on his Rugby debut. The back line led by scrum half Tom Hudson dominated the game and the ability to pass the After fierce competition the Year 7 Spelling Bee team has ball down the line to the wings was the difference as been finalised! Vishal Shah (7B), Alec Walker (7B), Robert Wilson’s piled on the pressure and the points. The boys Lander (7B) and Luke Shortland (7G) will make up the team thoroughly deserved their victory. All players involved for the Times Spelling Bee. These four boys scored the high- played exceptionally and credit goes to the hard work est in the two rounds of the competition for Year 7 students, and dedication they have put in since last September. spelling tricky words like “zealot”, “jettison” and “kleptomania” with ease. We will also have a Year 7 House Spelling Bee. The competitors for this will be: John Serunjogi (7B); Daniel Gonsalves (7c); Luke Shortland (7G) – since Luke will be our reserve RUGBY RESULTS player in the Times Spelling Bee – and Nikhil Fernandes (7H). The Southwark player has yet to be decided. Congratula- Wilson’s vs. Woodcote tions to all these boys, and to the other boys in the second round of the Bee who were just pipped at the final post for a position on the team (Mark Mayo 7C; Gianluca Scatto 7G; Sam Year 7 Lost 42-10 Kinch 7C and Shriiraam Selvamogan 7C). We will be compet- Year 8 Won 51-5 ing in the national Spelling Bee in the March heats. Year 9 Won 46-12 Year 10 Won 32-24 Issue 178 February 4, 2011

FOOTBALL RESULTS FOOTBALL FIXTURES Wednesday 2 February - Wilson’s vs. Reigate Grammar Monday 24 January Wilson’s vs. KCS Wimbledon 5th XI Home U15B drew 3-3 against U15A 6th XI Home U15C lost 1-6 against U15B Wednesday 2 February - Wilson’s vs Whitgift Tuesday 25 January Wilson’s vs. Raynes Park 2nd XI Home (Surrey Cup) 4th XI Home U15A won 4-2 Saturday5 February - Wilson’s vs. Dulwich C Wednesday 26 January Wilson’s vs. Forest Hill 1st XI Away U12A lost 1-3 2nd XI Away (last 32 in the country of the ESFA Cup) U15A Away U15B Away Wilson’s vs. Chessington (Surrey Cup) U14A Home U14A lost 2-3 U14B Away U13A Away Wilson’s vs. Sutton Grammar U13B Away 2nd XI won 3-2 U12A Home 4th XI won 3-0 U12B Home 5th XI won 6-0

Friday 28 January Wilson’s vs. Chase Community School (Last 32 in the country of ESFA Cup) TABLE TENNIS RESULTS The School took two U15/13 squad teams to play Glyn U15A won 4-3 last week. The first team won 6-4. Playing at No. 1, Alex Yee comfortably won his two singles matches and This is a fantastic achievement for the boys to reach the was supported by Vyas Raina who also won his singles last 16 schools in the country. We have a home draw match. His brother Vatsal also won one while Alex and versus a team from either Cornwall or Somerset next. It Adheeb Hiba-Saibo won the top doubles. Neev Trehan would be great to have as many supporters watching and Dekyong Webb won their two singles matches - this game as possible. It should be played in the next Dekyong fought hard to win his first singles in the fifth - few weeks - details will follow. while Nikhil Pattani and Tarun Donde won one each. De- (Goals by Sam Wright, Ollie Sitch, Isaac Wong and kyong and Tarun teamed up to win the bottom doubles Josh Robinson) again in the fifth, giving Wilson’s a 7-3 win. On Wednes- day of this week the U16 team play Coombe at home in Wilson’s vs. St. Paul’s the league while next week Wilson’s host the County U19 1st XI drew 1-1 and U13 Individual Championships on Tuesday and on 2nd XI won 5-1 Wednesday the U19 and U16 teams travel to Whitgift for 5th XI won 3-2 league matches.

Wilson’s vs. City of London U15B drew 1-1 against U15A BADMINTON RESULTS U14A won 5-0 Wilson’s staged the Surrey round of the National schools badminton championships on Monday and Tuesday of this week. The U14 team had a tough draw and had to beat Coombe School who included the top two Surrey CHESS RESULTS Juniors in their team. Despite losing both the singles matches the team rallied and superior tactics coupled with great teamwork saw Wilson’s win all three doubles Wilson’s B beat KCS Wimbledon A matches and progress through to The South of England 4.5 – 1.5 final to be played on March 2nd at Crystal Palace Na- tional Sport Centre. The U16 team won all their matches comfortably 5 – 0 and also progress through to the SURREY LEAGUE - BADMINTON Finals . A large number of boys from Year 8 helped to run the competition and did a great job. Teams were as U.19 Bt Tiffin 5 – 4 follows:- U.14 Bt Tiffin 8 - 1 U.14 S Patel, J Lee, A Yee, A Shukla, M Clark U.16 W.Gao, M Gunn, S Barber, S Saji, J Mackley WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 179 February 11, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY JACK PETCHEY AWARD Wednesday 16 February - A Level Recital Evening Friday 18 February - PSHE Activities Day Monday 28 February - Y10 Exams begin A LEVEL RECITAL EVENING - 7 P.M. 16 FEBRUARY Wednesday, 16 February at 7.00 p.m. Wilson’s School’s most advanced intrumentalists and vocalists take to the stage for performances that will contribute to their AS and A2 level exams; all parents and students are welcome. The recital will take place in the Bowden Room. DRAGONS DEN FINAL Wilson’s is hosting its fifth Dragon’s Den Final next Thursday 17 February, 6.45pm for a 7.00pm start in the Lecture Theatre. After several months of hard work by Year 11 Business Studies students, the class heats were held last term. They provided some imaginative and interesting business ideas with the top teams from each class making it through to the final. Without wanting to give anything away there will be innovative solutions to both your personal needs and problems encountered both at work and Congratulations to David Smith ( U6), who has been awarded the at home. The final will see the teams giving a five Jack Petchey award for January 2011. David set up and has run minute presentation to industry experts and facing the Sixth Form Cooking club which meets once a week at lunch- some tough questioning. All ages and levels of busi- time. The club was David’s idea and he then canvassed teachers ness experience are welcome, so please come along to support and help the club. David took on the responsibility of to support the Year 11 teams in their bid to become researching the dishes the club should cook, the equipment they the Wilson’s School Dragon’s Den Champions 2011! would need and coordinated the different activities to ensure the For any further details speak to any member of the club happened every week He also led members of the club in Business Studies and Economics Department. promoting the kitchen area during the school open day.

PSHE ACTIVITIES DAY - FRIDAY 18 FEBRUARY Normal timetable will be suspended and boys will take part in activities as follows: YEARS 7 and 8 (Health and Safety focus) Road Safety / Healthy Eating / First Aid / e-safety / Personal Safety / Self-defence YEARS 9 and 10 (Social Behaviour focus) Sex and Relationships* / Drugs / Emotional Well- Being LANGUAGES SPELLING BEE YEAR 11 (Looking towards Higher Education) ‘The Competitive Edge’ – a day conference exploring All Year 7 boys have been taking part in a German and French skills, beyond qualifications, for university entrance Spelling Bee competition in class during the autumn term. Two YEARS 12 and 13 (Criminal Justice focus) or three winners per class made it through to represent their Lecture on the criminal justice system house in the school competition. They all diligently attended House Debating Competition practice sessions every Monday for four weeks to get ready for All pupils, other than Year 11 and the Sixth Form, this second round and make sure they were confident with the should report for registration as normal at 8.35 am. 100 words they would be tested on. On Wednesday 9 February, The day will end as normal at 3.05 pm. fourteen boys competed to be in the top 4 positions. After fierce The Year 11 conference will take place at the Croy- competition, the Year 7 Languages Spelling Bee team has been don Aerodrome Hotel and boys should report there finalised: for 8.35 am. Further details will be given to the boys Sami Elsayed (7G), Alec Walker (7B), Suichi Chiba (7C) and Saaru- by Mr Doyle. Upper and Lower Sixth Form boys jan Sotheeswaran (7C) will represent Wilson’s School in the re- should report for registration in the Sixth Form Cen- gional competition that will take place in London on 16 March at tre at 9.50 am. Further details will be available from the European Commission Office. Hari Nair (7G) and Emmanuel Mrs Mitchelmore. Amissah-Eshun (7H) will be our reserve players. * Should you wish more details of our SRE programme or wish to exercise your right to withdraw Congratulations to these boys and to the other boys who took your son from SRE lessons, please contact your son’s part in the second round of the competition. Year Manager. Issue 179 February 11, 2011

UK CHESS CHALLENGE 2011 Over 100 pupils, representing most forms in the school, have entered this year’s UK Chess Challenge tournament, played over seven weeks. After two rounds 30 players, mainly school team members, have 2 wins from 2 games. Out of 512 points so far won, Southwark are the leading house with 158 points, Camberwell are second with 113 and Hayes third with 84. The leading form is 7C with 66 points, followed by 8S with 64 and 8H with 44 points.

HOUSE MUSIC 2011 House Music is a brand new event that replaces the Young Musi- cian of the Year competition. Application forms are now available from the peripatetic music teachers and from the music corridor. INSTRUMENTAL CLASSES For instrumentalists and vocalists there will be a Junior (Years Last year “make a tenner” saw team profits close to £3,000! With 7-9) and a Senior (Years 10-13) class during the week begin- such success it is time to launch this year’s challenge. ning 7 March. These will cover strings, woodwind, brass, piano, voice and guitar. There will be just one class for all percussion- Year 8 are entering a national enterprise competition where ists. The winner of each class will be awarded 50 points for they are given the challenge of making as much profit/raising as their house. Any ‘highly commended’ students in each class much for charity as possible from a £10 initial investment. House will be awarded 20 points for their house. All those who enter points will be available. receive 2 points for their house. Instrumentalists who take part in school ensembles are entitled to piano accompaniment The competition is organised by the Enterprise UK organisation by Mr Lissimore and should ensure that he has copies of piano whose objective is to encourage enterprise. The challenge can accompaniments at least two days before their class. be run in either teams or as individuals. They then have a month FINALS (INCLUDING CHOIRS AND ENSEMBLES) to invest their money to make as much profit as possible. At the The Grand Final of House Music 2011 will take place in the end of the month the teams need to pay back the initial money Main Hall from 1900 on Thursday, 31 March. The winners of and can either keep the profit or donate it to charity. each class will compete to win 100 additional points for their house. Each house is invited to present an instrumental en- This enterprise challenge promotes a range of entrepreneurial semble (or band) and a choir on this occasion; 100 points will skills including; decision making; leadership; risk-taking; risk also be available to the ensemble and to the choir that most management and financial capability. Year 8, if you are up for impresses the adjudicator. the challenge you must collect a proposal form from your form Please speak to Mr Lissimore or Ms Bright if you have any ques- tutor and submit it no later than Thursday 17 February. tions.” The rules are as follows: 1. You can work as an individual or in a team of up to 6 members; 2. All team members have to be in the same form; 3. You can collect up to £10 per team member - but remember, you have to pay back all monies owed at the end of the competition; 4. Your form teacher must have agreed to your idea prior to the Parents are welcome to see how their boys are doing in the master start of the competition; chef challenge, Year 9 on 15 February and Year 10 on16 February. 5. If you are raising money for a charity you should ensure peo- The boys have been trained by the school chef, Mr Pryce Hawkins, ple know this as they are more likely to pay/participate. on how to impress the judges with their cooking and presentation skills. Two teams from each round will be eligible for the final on If you would like to promote your product or service by advertis- Wednesday 23 March. If any parent would like information please ing in the school newsletter. send the text (and any photographs email Mr Jones care of the school office. you would like included) to Mr Jones.

YEAR 8 INTER-HOUSE TEAM MATHS CHALLENGE Before you begin, check out how much entrepreneurial ‘fuel’ On lunchtime on Tuesday 8 February teams of four students from you’ve got by visiting www.enterprisecatalyst.co.uk , enter the the five Year 8 forms were given ten tough maths questions to solve. code ‘tenner’, to find out what type of entrepreneur you would The team from 8H came third with 7 out of 10 correct, 8S second make! with 8 out of 10, but the team from 8B scored a remarkable 9 out of 10. Congratulations to the winning team of Devjyot Awal, Jack For further details please speak to your form tutor or Mr Jones or Rosenthal, Sukanthan Pragalathan and Eui Jin Choi. Miss Gibson from the Business Studies and Economics Depart- ment. Issue 179 February 11, 2011

FOOTBALL RESULTS RUGBY RESULTS Wilson’s vs. Edenham Monday 31 January Wilson’s vs. Glenthorne (District Year 10 won 42-12 League) Wilson’s vs. Carshalton U15A won 10-0 Year 7 won 37-7

Wednesday 2 February Wilson’s vs. Whitgift 2nd XI won 2-2 (against 1st XI) 5th XI won 7-1 (against 2nd XI) RUGBY FIXTURES Wilson’s vs. Reigate Grammar Monday 14 February vs. Wallington 4th XI won 2-0 Yr 8 Away 6th XI won 10-0 Tuesday 15 February vs.Edenham Yr 7 Home Friday 4 February Wilson’s vs.Greenshaw (District Wednesday 16 February Cup) Senior 10s Tournament U14A won 3-1 Thursday 17 February vs. Cheam Lewis Bagshaw scored twice in extra time taking the Yr 9 Away team to the District Cup final.

Saturday 5 February Wilson’s vs. Dulwich College TABLE TENNIS 1st XI won 2-0 2nd XI drew 0-0 The school U16 team had to produce a good team performance to beat Coombe last week. Alex Yee 3rd XI lost 0-2 remains unbeaten after winning his two singles and U15A drew 2-2 Amar Shukla together with Kartik Iyer won one each to U15B lost 3-4 make the match score 4-4 at the doubles. Kartik espe- U15C lost 0-1 cially did well against a Year 11 opponent to win in five U14A drew 3-3 games. Amar and Kartik won their match to make the score 5-4 to Wilson’s and Andrew McDonald, despite U14B won 4-2 losing both his singles played really well with Alex Yee U14C lost 3-5 to give Wilson’s a 6-4 victory. Unfortunately the U19 U13A lost 1-6 and U16 matches due to be played on Wednesday were U13B won 2-1 postponed at late notice by Whitgift. U13C lost 1-7 U12A won 3-2 On Tuesday of last week, Wilson’s hosted the County U19 and U13 Championships. Although there was a U12B lost 2-5 small entry, congratulations are due to Michael Ho who U12C lost 0-7 won the U19’s and also to Harry Frost as runner up. Liam Grant also played very well but was beaten in the U13 final by his old adversary Marcus Giles.

FOOTBALL FIXTURES Next week, Whitgift host the U16 County Champion- ships on Tuesday, while the U12 team play Woodcote Saturday 12 February - Wilson’s vs. Hampton Park on Wednesday. 1st XI Away 2nd XI Home U15A Home U15B Home CHESS TEAM NEWS U14A Away Two school chess teams went to Eton College on Sun- U14B Away day 6 February to take part in a one day zone of the U13A Away national school’s chess tournament. Facing teams like U13B Away Westminster School A team and Eton College A team U12A Home were Wilson’s C and D teams. They performed out- U12B Home standingly well, both winning 3 of their 5 matches and coming joint 6th in the event, just one win behind the winners, RGS Guildford. They were equal with Sutton Wednesday 16 February - Wilson’s vs. Royal Russell GS first team and ahead of Westminster School! The 1st XI Training outstanding performance on the day was Ryan Shankar 4th XI Away (8S) who won all 4 of his games, including against RGS 5th XI Away Guildford. Vyas Raina (8S) scored 3 wins and 2 draws, 6th XI Home whilst Thomas Short (9H) scored 3 wins and one draw. Congratulations to all of them on their outstanding performances. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 180 February 18, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY CHESS CHAMPIONS! Monday 28 February - Y10 Exams begin Tuesday 1 March - 7p.m. Higher Education Evening - ALL L6 STUDENTS MUST ATTEND Wednesday 2 March - DofE Silver Training Walk Thursday 3 March - Y8 Parents’ Evening Monday 7 March - House Music Competition starts Monday 7 March - 7p.m. Medical Information Evening

TRIPS TO GERMANY AND FRANCE, JULY 2011 Would participants of the trips to Germany and France in July please note that February’s payment of £100 is due this week. There is one further payment to be made by the end of the Spring Term.

LOST PROPERTY Over the half term please would you check that your son’s uniform and sports kit are clearly marked with his name. We have an enormous amount of lost property building up again and have no way of returning it to the rightful Even with one match yet to be played, Wilson’s chess team have owner as most of it is unmarked. If your son has lost an regained the Surrey Schools championship in style, with 9 straight item please ask him to check the lost property cupboard wins. Their undefeated run in the league is now 24 matches, of which outside the school office and the green bins in the PE only one was a draw. This season they have had a winning margin department for it. In the next few weeks unnamed items of at least 2 games in every match. Whilst other schools have one or will need to be cleared out. two outstanding players Wilson’s has strength in depth. On Board 3 Aditya Gupta (L6) has won all 12 games played, on Board 4 Philip LANGUAGES SPELLING BEE Knott (9B) has won 7 and drawn 2 games and Keith Barker (11S) has Owing to an arithmetical blunder the winning candidate won 8 and drawn 1 of his first team games. With none of the players in the recent Year Seven Modern Foreign Languages being in the upper sixth Wilson’s will be odds-on favourites to com- Spelling Bee was omitted from the list of prize winners. plete the triple next season. Congratulations to all those who have The corrected list is as follows: taken part. 1st Shrey Patel (German) Joint Second Alec Walker, Shuichi Chiba & Saarujan Sotheeswaran RAF TRIUMPH IN GROUND The Modern Foreign Languages Department apologises TRAINING COMPETITION for this error and congratulates all the competitors and The Wilson’s RAF Section have been awarded an overall first place in the wishes all our representatives the very best in the next South East section of the RAF Ground Training Competition. They have round of the competition. been invited to compete at the National Competition in May, facing some of the best CCF (RAF) sections in Britain. The team won the Drill Y11 DOFE SILVER ORIENTEERING CHALLENGE and Command task competitions, and were awarded second for RAF On Wednesday 2 March the students hoping to complete knowledge, losing out to first place by one point! The aircraft recognition their Silver DofE award will be set the challenge of orien- team came third overall and shooting, first aid and PT were given fourth teering around Leith Hill in Surrey. The teams will have to place, which as the places were out of fifteen, is a very commendable develop a route which should gain them as many points performance. Overall, the whole team did superbly; gaining a result that as possible in the time available. There is a time limit for is a first for the Wilson’s RAF section. The hours of hard work by cadets the course – with points deducted for every minute the and officers alike certainly paid off and we would like to wish them the teams are late. There will be chocolate for the winners, very best of luck for May. whilst the team with the lowest points will have the pen- Team: FS Morgan, Sgt Arscott, Cpl Hogg, Cpl Leggett, Cpl Patel, J/Cpl alty of having to clean the campsite on their expedition in Lowe, J/Cpl Threadgold, Cdt Anandakumar, Cdt Phillips, Cdt Senthilvel, April….. Cdt Stanley, Cdt Sofocleous, Cdt Tejura We will be setting off straight after registration – all participants need to come prepared for a full day’s hike, including a packed lunch. We aim to return to school for 3.30pm. If you have any questions please contact Mr Jones via the school office.

JAZZ DINNER EVENING - FRIDAY 18 MARCH Tickets will be on sale for the Jazz Dinner Evening immediately after the half term break. The event sold out very quickly last year, as only a limited number of diners can join us for an evening for great food and lively musical entertainment from the schools’ many jazz musicians! We may even see a few familiar faces from years gone by! Please speak to Mr Lissimore for further details Issue 180 February 18, 2011

A LEVEL RECITALS EVENING

AS and A2 Musicians recorded their final performances on Wednesday. Their first-rate musicianship and professionalism in preparation yielded some excellent performances – in some cases possibly their final solo performances at Wilson’s! Well done to all. Y11 HISTORY ESSAY

INFORMATION FOR PARTICIPANTS

MONDAY 7 MARCH 1400-1530 Strings, Bowden Room Junior/Senior classes for all players of stringed instruments (except guitar) – Adjudicator: Mr Daniel Shilladay Students in Mr Cole’s Year 11 History class have been re- sponding to Daniel Goldhagen’s controversial thesis that TUESDAY 8 MARCH ordinary Germans were Hitler’s ‘willing executioners’. They 1330-1425 Guitar, Percussion Room were asked to write, as the conclusion to a series of lessons, Junior/Senior classes for all guitarists – Adjudicator: Mr Graeme a short response to what has become known as the ‘Goldha- Taylor gen Thesis’. Dr Goldhagen (previously a Professor at Harvard) graciously agreed to judge the winner amongst the top three 1400-1530 Woodwind, Bowden Room selected by the school - namely Gabriel Agranoff, Jake South Junior/Senior classes for all players of woodwind instruments and Laurence Wright. His comments were as follows: “I very (including saxophone) – Adjudicator: Ms Corinne Bass much like Laurence Wright’s diagrammatic exposition of his argument. More essay writers should attempt to graphically THURSDAY 10 MARCH convey aspects of their argumentation. Gabriel Agranoff, tak- 1430-1530 Brass, Bowden Room ing a decidedly different tack, shows the need for the power Junior/Senior classes for all players of brass instruments – Adju- of serious conceptual analysis, which is all too often lacking in dicator: Mr David Shead historical treatments, and which he performs with promising deftness” and finally “Jake South’s essay is a model of conci- FRIDAY 11 March sion in its blending of historical and logical argumentation to 1100-1230 Vocal, Bowden Room what is, in my view, a correct analysis of the principal issue. I Junior/Senior classes for all vocalists – Adjudicator: Mr Tom congratulate and applaud all of the essay writers.” He went Robson on to name Jake and Gabriel as joint winners. Well done to all three budding historians! 1200-1300 Percussion, Percussion Room One class for all players of percussion instruments – Adjudica- tor: Mr Jonathan French

1330-1500 Piano, Bowden Room Junior/Senior classes for all players of keyboard instruments – Adjudicator: Mr Andrew Lamb

WILSON’S GOT TALENT Auditions will be taking place after half-term, please watch out for information on dates and for further information please contact Mrs Gill. This year the proceeds of the competition will go to Brain Tumour Research who are raising money for research in this field. Issue 180 February 18, 2011

FOOTBALL RESULTS RUGBY RESULTS Wilson’s vs. Sutton Grammar Tuesday 8 February Wilson’s vs. Raynes Park Year 12/13 won 53-5 U12A won 6-0 Wilson’s vs. Shirley High School (now into the 1/4 final Surrey Cup vs. Coombe Boys’ ) Year 10 won 33-5

Wednesday 9 February Wilson’s vs. City of London 1st XI won 5-2 2nd XI won 2-0 RUGBY FIXTURES 3rd XI lost 1-3 Friday 4 March vs.Shirley High 4th XI drew 4-4 Yr 7 Home 5th XI won 5-1 Monday 7 March vs.Edenham Yr 8 Home Thursday 10 February District League Match Tuesday 8 March vs Riddlesdown U14A won 2-0 Yr 7 Away Wednesday 9 March vs. Ernest Bevin Saturday 12 February Wilson’s vs.Hampton Yr 11 Home 1st XI drew 0-0 Wednesday 9 March vs. Cheam 2nd XI lost 2-3 Yr 8 Away U15A won 6-2 Thursday 10 March vs Edenham U15B won 5-0 Yr 9 Away U14A drew 2-2 U14B lost 1-2 U13A lost 1-3 U13B won 3-1 RUGBY TRAINING U12A drew 1-1 Monday 28 February U12B won 1-0 Lunchtime Year 8 & 9 After School Year 7 & Year 12/13 FOOTBALL FIXTURES Wednesday 2 March Lunchtime Year 10 Tuesday 1 March - Wilson’s vs. KCS U12A Away Thursday 3 March Lunchtime Year 7 Wednesday 2 March - Wilson’s vs Carshalton After School Year 8 & 9 1st XI Home 3rd XI Home Training will continue on the first day back so please 4th XI Home don’t forget your kit and gum shields!!! 5th XI Home

TABLE TENNIS CHESS RESULTS

The school performed very well at the County U16 tour- Friday 4 February Wilson’s vs. Trinity nament played at Whitgift on Wednesday. Michael Ho, A team won 5 - 1 Alex Yee and Amar Shukla all won through from their C team drew 3 - 3 groups and qualified for the quarter finals. Amar was unfortunate to be drawn against Michael and put up a E team won 10.5 - 5.5 good fight before going down in three games. Alex won his quarter final comfortably and then played well above Friday 11 February Wilson’s vs. Hampton expectations against Michael in the semi-final. He twice A team won 4 - 2 fought back from being a game down only to lose 11-6 B team lost 1.5 - 4.5 in the fifth game. Michael had his biggest scare against (Wilson’s win the League and the Surrey Zone of the Alex but then produced his best table tennis of the afternoon in the final against George Harris of Stanley Park. National Schools’ Chess Tournament.) Potentially George was a dangerous opponent but using some vicious top spin shots on both wings, he won in Friday 11 February Wilson’s vs.Homefield three games. Michael now represents the County in the Wilson’s C lost 2 - 4 to Homefield A National Finals at Doncaster in April. Wilson’s D won 10 - 2 to Homefield B

WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 181 March 4, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY DRAGONS DEN FINAL - RESULTS Monday 7 March - House Music Competition starts On the last Thursday before half term the Business Studies and Monday 7 March - 7p.m. Medical Information Evening Economics department hosted their fifth Dragons’ Den Final. As was Monday 14 March - 7 p.m. Oxbridge Evening mentioned in a previous newsletter, this was the culmination of several Tuesday 15 March - Y10 Parents’ Evening months of hard work by year Wednesday 16 March - 7p.m. GCSE Musicians’ Evening 11 Business Studies students. As expected the evening provided a range of innova- CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY tive, problem solving prod- This Drama Club production will take place on Thursday ucts. Throughout the pitches 10 March. Tickets for the Y7 showing at 3.45pm are on the teams created interest sale in the Y7 common room at lunchtime, priced at £3 and showed great profes- each or £5 for two. Tickets for the 7pm performance are sionalism with their presen- £3 each and are available through the cast, Miss Tyler or tation skills and responses to Mrs Guy. the somewhat challenging questions, posed by our ‘Dragons’. The final score THE WILSONIAN 2009 – 2010 board was as follows; The latest issue of the Wilsonian, covering the last aca- 1st place to Stamping Stove – a safe and secure camping stove, demic year, is now available as a digital download from commended for their strong branding and smart business planning, the Publications page of the school website. Printed hard presented by Thomas Johnson and Zeyang Gao. cover copies may also be ordered at £35.00 (incl. VAT and 2nd place to Sleepsafe – a revolutionary baby monitor, commended for p&p) - please email the Finance Office. their knowledge of the market and sensitivity to their target market’s requirements, presented by Krishan Kanani, Jordan Massiah and Ash- ley Sofocleous. SECOND HAND UNIFORM SALE 3rd place to Neon Street – wireless headphones, commended for their Our apologies that the second hand uniform sale had to strong branding and ability to answer questions, presented by Nilshan be cancelled this week but please note that it will take Kugarajah, Sean McKoy and Priyank Shah. place next Wednesday (9 March) at 3.30pm in the Dining Many thanks to our ‘Dragons’ Ian Threadgold, Mary Wood and Ian Hall. Downes who gave up their evening to attend and judge this event. Their expertise and advice was highly valued by the boys. An additional thank you to Ian Downes for donating the prizes. GCSE GEOGRAPHY REVISION GUIDES (AQA SPEC) If you ordered a revision guide it is now ready for collection from the Humanities office. TOP SCOUTING AWARDS FOR RIO Keen Scout Rio McElvenny in Form 9G has just been awarded two pres- COOKIE SALE - MONDAY 7 MARCH tigious Scouting Awards . He has gained the Chief Scout’s Gold Award; There will be a cookie sale in the main hall on Monday 7 this Badge is the highest level of Award available to a Scout . Rio is a March. Cookies will cost 50p or 3 for a pound and there member of the 4th Balham & Tooting Scout Troop which celebrated their will be also be a raffle with tickets costing 20p each or 3 centenary last year . He has made history by being their first Scout to for 50p. receive this Award . Secondly, he has been recognized as an OUTSTAND- ING ACHIEVER by The Jack Petchey Foundation . Rio was presented with CAKE SALE - THURSDAY 10 MARCH a Jack Petchey Medallion by The Mayor of Lewisham at a recent Ceremo- a cake sale will be held in the foyer serving homemade ny in Catford . A picture taken at that Ceremony, with Rio sitting beside scrumptious cakes and snacks including brownies and the Mayor [front row, 1st left] is shown below . Congratulations to Rio, chocolate cake. Don’t miss out. who still has the World Scout Jamboree in August 2011 to look forward to, involving him travelling to Denmark, Sweden and Bulgaria ! JAZZ EVENING A huge sell-out event last year, the Jazz Evening is set to return to Wilson’s on Friday, 18 March at 20.00. Remember to return requests for tickets as soon as possible (and by Friday, 11 March at the latest).

HOUSE MUSIC The House Music competition begins on Monday with the Strings Class in the Bowden Room (adjudi- cated by Daniel Shilladay). There has been a signifi- cant increase in entries since last year’s Young Musi- cian competition, and we look forward to hearing every serious Wilson’s musician perform during next week! All parents are warmly invited to each class. The Grand Final will be held on Thursday, 31 March. Issue 181 March 4, 2011

ENVIRONMENTAL NEWS CCF HALF-TERM CAMP We are still making progress on sustainability in the school: During the half term break the CCF took 120 cadets to Longmoor the allotment goes from strength to strength and the recycling Training Camp in Hampshire. The camp was a great success boxes are now spreading across the school. There is still much to with 80 Yr 9 boys (A company) taking the large step from being be done especially in energy conservation and resource manage- a recruit to becoming a cadet in the CCF, either in the Army or ment. We are hoping to apply for ‘Green Flag’ status this half term the RAF sections. A Company were involved in lots of different but will need the full support of the school. On that note next military related training sessions incl. drill and deportment, safe Tuesday 8/3 we enter the second phase of our ‘Fruitfull-Schools’ weapons handling procedures, command tasks, obstacle course, project and there will be a workshop running 9:30-12:30 where block inspections and physical training to name just a few. All boys and parents will be able to learn how to graft fruit trees the boy’s hard work culminated in a day in the field, learning the onto root stocks. When you buy a fruit tree it will almost certainly fundamentals of effectively operating in this challenging environ- be grafted, a job that can only be done by skilled hands! We still ment. have some places available for adults who might like to learn as well so although it is short notice if you would like to take part Additionally the 4 day camp saw the senior cadets from the Army in the workshop please contact Mr Phillips over the weekend Section’s B Company completing their advanced fieldcraft cadre (Monday 7/3 at the latest) and he can give you more details. It with a 24hr exercise practising anti – ambush drills, taking over won’t be for the full three hours, and you can learn yourself how and running a harbour area (field accommodation area), carrying to graft. out a section attack demonstration on an enemy position and Don’t forget we have a blog looking for ideas which can be found through the school website or directly here http://ecowi- lsons.edublogs.org/ This is open to everyone parents/students/ staff. To contact Mr Phillips please email [email protected] ton.sch.uk or ring and leave a message.

Every Wednesday our eco-committee meets in room 21 at 1:20 for half an hour to discuss further plans and to complete the application form for green flag. Please could any students who wish to be involved let Mr Franklin or Mr Phillips know you would like to attend and if there are any other parents/teachers/governors who would like to come along you are more than welcome if we have space!

Finally we are always looking for the next generation of eco-war- delivering fieldcraft lessons to the new recruits who formed A riors so if any students from year 7 & 8 would like to get involved company. Meanwhile the RAF section went to visit RAF Odiham don’t be shy. You are welcome to join everything. Perhaps you (an operational RAF station, flying Chinnook troop transporter just want to get stuck in doing something then you can help Mr helicopters). Here they visited several Squadron hangers, air Riley on a Tuesday lunchtime with the recycling competition traffic control, the fire section and several other departments on around the school. For more information please just ask Mr Phil- the station, narrowly missing out on a flight in a Chinnook due to lips. If you would like to see the activity we will be doing please extreme bad weather. follow this link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-MIS3QjCyfA. It is taken from the course where the trainers were trained! Overall it was an extremely successful training camp for the CCF as a whole seeing the largest amount of cadets on a Wilson’s CCF camp in recent history. The contingent commander Maj Burton PARIS VISIT OVER HALF-TERM would like to thank all the staff at Longmoor, the officers in the During the recent half term ten of the Year 12 French group, Mrs. CCF and the senior cadets for all their hard work and devotion Mitchelmore and Mr. Winstone went to Paris to see the sights, to which went a long way to ensuring the positive outcome of the experience France and the French for real and to communicate camp. The next camp will be the summer central camp to Crow- with the natives. Although the weather did not allow us to see borough training camp 03 – 10th July 2011, where we will be Paris at its best we were able to visit the Eiffel Tower, the Arc taking 60 cadets, including a number of recruits. The RAF section de Triomphe and the Stade de France among other things. We will be returning to RAF Odiham for their summer camp during learned how to wrestle with the métro, to find our way round the same period. the city of light and to look up and enjoy the architecture that makes Paris so immediately recognisable. On the morning of INTERMEDIATE MATHS CHALLENGE Our Intermediate Maths challenge results this year have broken our departure we visited le Musée de l’Armée and watched a all records. The challenge was taken by all year 9 and 10 pupils, presentation on the life of Général de Gaulle, a former president and the top sets in years 11 and 8. We have a record number of of France, and visited the tomb of Napoléon. An energetic and Gold awards (109) – the first time we have had over 100 Golds. illuminating trip. 218 Other pupils gained silver or bronze certificates (which will be handed out towards the end of term). The 18 Olympiad and OLD WILSONIANS 58 Kangaroo qualifiers are also records. Since only 1500 students Tuesday 1 March would have been Harry Golembek’s 100th in the country are invited to take part in the Intermediate maths birthday. As he was the Times chess columnist for many years, Olympiads this is a truly a fantastic result, showing that we have this week their chess column is given over to some of his games. large numbers of very able mathematicians at Wilson’s. Leading Golombek was a British International Master and grandmaster. scores were Philip Knott (9B)123, Keith Barker (11S) 114, Harry He was British Chess Champion three times. During the war, he Goodburn (8S) 114, Joe Walter (10H ) 110 and Darren Aloys- worked at the famous code-breaking centre Bletchley Park. ious (11B) 110. A full list of qualifiers is published on the Maths department notice board. The follow-on tests are taken on Thursday 17th March which is a school activity day. Some pupils will take the Olympiad/Kangaroo during the school day. Others will do so after they have completed their activities. Issue 181 March 4, 2011

FOOTBALL FIXTURES MATHS CIRCLE LECTURES Saturday 5 March - Wilson’s vs. Latymer Upper Wilson’s prestigious annual Maths Circle Lectures will 1st XI Away be taking place over the coming weeks using the theme 2nd XI Home ‘Maths in …’. U15A Home U15B Home These lectures start on Monday 14 March with Maths in U14A Away Astronomy, given by Prof Carl Murray from Queen Mary Univ of London, whom you may have heard talking about U14B Away planets on BBC Radio 4. U13A Home U13B Home On 21 March Prof Dik Morling from Univ of Westminster U12A Away will illustrate how, as Head of the Department of Elec- U12B Away tronic, Network and Computer Engineering, he knows that maths is vital in Electronics. Wednesday 9 March - Wilson’s vs. St. Paul’s Then on 28 March Marcus Tindall, a Systems Biology 1st XI Away researcher at Reading University, will talk on the rapidly 2nd XI Away growing requirements for mathematics in Medicine and 3rd XI Away Biology. 4th XI Home 5th XI Home Finally on 4 April Emma McCoy, who is the Head of the Maths Department at Imperial College, will talk on ‘Maths 6th XI Home in Gambling’. This is already proving a very popular talk with our students and booking for this talk will be vital.

All lectures are at 4pm in the lecture theatre and are aimed at sixth form students but other pupils are welcome to attend. For further information or queries please TABLE TENNIS contact Dr Cooper at [email protected]

The school U12 squad had a friendly match with Woodcote Park before half term. It was a very useful practice run for harder matches to come. All four players - Lock Wai, Alex Kelly, Sam Gates and Hughie Curtis won their singles in a comfortable victory. Alex, in particular, played well.

14 March 2011 Prof. Carl Murray 21 March 2011 Dr. Dik Morling Professor of mathematics and University of Westminster Wilson’s School astronomy at the Queen Mary Wilson’s School Lecture Theatre Astronomy Unit, University of Lecture Theatre Dr. Morling is Head of the London Department of Electronic, 4pm 4pm Network and Computer En- The school U19 and U16 teams play in the last sixteen of the Refreshments from 3.30 pm in F1, in Refreshments from 3.30 pm in F1, in Prof. Murray is interested in all gineering at Westminster the Foundation Building the Foundation Building aspects of the dynamics of all University planetary systems, from the orbital evolution of dust parti- Researching into VLSI design cles to the stability of planetary methodologies. orbits. He will be talking about Teaching communications, observations of Saturn by the DSP and chip design National Schools’ Team competition this weekend. The U19’s go Maths Circle Lectures: 2011 Series space probe Cassini Maths Circle Lectures: 2011 Series to Southall on Saturday while the U16’s travel to Cheltenham on Maths in Astronomy Maths in Electronics Sunday with only the winners qualifying for the finals.

RUGBY FIXTURES Monday 7 March Wilson’s vs.Edenham Yr 8 Home Tuesday 8 March Wilson’s vs Riddlesdown Yr 7 Away

4 April 2011 Dr Emma McCoy, 28 March 2011 Dr Marcus Tindall Senior Lecturer and RCUK Research Fellow in Systems Wilson’s School Wilson’s School Biology Head of Department of Lecture Theatre Mathematics, Imperial Lecture Theatre College, London Dr Tindall's work is focused on 4pm 4pm developing well-informed mathe- Refreshments from 3.30 pm in F1, in Refreshments from 3.30 pm in F1, in Researching time se- Wednesday 9 March the Foundation Building the Foundation Building matical models of biological and ries, computational sta- biomedical processes; his work is tistics and wavelets focused in the areas of lipoprotein metabolism, bacterial chemotaxis and tumour growth Wilson’s vs. Ernest Bevin Maths Circle Lectures: 2011 Series Maths Circle Lectures: 2011 Series Maths in Medicine and Biology Maths in Gambling Yr 11 Home Wilson’s vs. Cheam Yr 8 Away Thursday 10 March vs Edenham Yr 9 Away

WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 182 March 11, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WHEN 25% IS AN EXCELLENT RESULT! Monday 14 March - 7 p.m. Oxbridge Evening Tuesday 15 March - 4 - 6.30 p.m. Y10 Parents’ Evening Context is everything! Daniel Hunt Wednesday 16 March - 7p.m. GCSE Musicians’ Evening (L6) took the British Maths Olym- Thursday 17 March - Activities Day piad round 2 paper - this is the Wednesday 6 April - Spring Choral & Orchestral Concert toughest maths paper any of our students ever sit at school. After three and a half hours hard work THURSDAY 17 MARCH - ACTIVITIES DAY he solved one problem! This is our best known result by a Lower Sixth This is the third of this year’s Trips and Activities pupil, and in the past 7 years only Days. Normal timetable will be suspended and boys one Upper Sixth student has done will take part in activities as follows: better. Typically only 20 students in the whole country get 50% Year 7: Visit to the Science Museum – boys have in this test, so Daniel’s result is received a letter from the Science Department with outstanding. instructions for the day. Normal school hours will apply. Year 8: Learn to Earn Day – boys should report at 8.30 am to the school hall. They should wear school TARGET 2.0 - THE RESULTS uniform and bring a pencil case. The day will end at Tuesday 2 March saw the Bank of England Target 2.0 competition 3.30 pm. regional final. The Wilson’s team travelled to London, New Bond Year 9: Science Day – all boys will be taking part in Street, with five other very capable teams to argue the merits or not, a range of science-related activities, including prob- of changing interest rates in order to reduce inflation and influence lem-solving exercises, and a talk on science related economic growth. Sadly the team of Jack Di Lizia, Wilson Lou, Nikesh degrees and careers from a representative of the Shah and James Daly, despite a polished and technically very sound University of Surrey. Boys should wear school uni- (judges’ words) performance did not make it to the top three of the form and must report to the Science Department for finalists. It should go on record that the team impressed with their registration at 8.30 am. The day will end at 3.30 pm. coolness and specialist knowledge, especially in the very tough ques- Year 10: History Battlefields Trip – all boys and tioning round where the judges give all the teams a very thorough parents have been given detailed information about examination. Congratulations to the team who were a credit to them- the trip from the History Department. selves and the school. Many thanks also to Mr Ormonde for mentor- Year 10: Greenwich Trip - all year 10 boys who do ing the team throughout the competition. not study History will be visiting the Maritime Mu- seum and the Greenwich Observatory. Further information about the day will issued by Mr Phillips. MR RILEY TO RUN THE TAUNTON Year 11: GCSE English Day – the purpose of the day is to improve boys’ grades in English and English MARATHON Literature. Information about the day will be given to boys by Miss Haire. All boys will be sitting a mock Early last year Stuart Wright, a friend and family member GCSE English Literature exam in the afternoon. They of Mr Riley, was paralysed from the chest down following a should wear school uniform. The day will end at 2.45 mountain-biking accident. He is determined that this won’t pm. stop him living life to the full, and after months of intensive Year 11 boys who study GCSE Art will be visiting treatment and rehabilitation, he is almost ready to move into London galleries on this day. Details will be sent to a home in Taunton. He will never recover the use of his legs, parents from the Art Department. These boys will torso or hands, but he is focused on living as independently take their mock English Literature exam on Friday as possible. Over the last year Stuart’s close friends and fam- morning. ily have been focused on fund-raising efforts in order to help Sixth Form: Y12 AS Geography students will be on him achieve his goals. Money is desperately needed to make a Field Trip to Llwyn-y-Celyn. Further details have his home fully accessible. Things which we take for granted been sent home from the Geography Department. will require often ingenious and expensive adaptations to his Y12 and Y13 Philosophy students will attend a surroundings. It is also hoped, if possible, to fund a holiday conference in the Lecture Theatre. All other Sixth for Stuart in the future – maybe even to go back to one of his Form students are welcome. Further details from Dr favourite sports of surfing (yes this is possible!) Hemp. Y13 Further Maths students will be working with On 3 April Mr Riley will be running the Taunton Marathon in Dr Cooper and should report to him at the school. aid of Stuart. He has been training since November, and is looking for a competitive time, so all money raised will be at All other Sixth Form students must be available to the expense of many cold, winter evenings bashing out the any member of staff who calls them in to catch up miles! As he is not running for a registered charity he cannot with coursework etc. Otherwise, Sixth Formers may set up a just giving page. However, if you would like to spon- use the day to study at home. sor Mr Riley then it is easy using old fashioned methods! Just get in contact face-to-face, or e-mail/telephone the school. All sponsorship, however small, will be hugely appreciated. Issue 182 March 11, 2011

BIOLOGY CHALLENGE AND OLYMPIAD Y9 MASTER CHEF CHALLENGE Congratulations to Jamie Barry, Muntej Chana, Aaron Mallet of These two important national competitions are organised by the 9B and Andrew Kilner, Harry Perkin and Andrew McDonald of Society of Biology. The school Biology department congratulates 9G who have made it through to the Y9 Master Chef challenge. Fanuel Getachew and Arjoon Niranjan of Year 13 for being Highly Also well done to Oliver Taylor, Declan Jones and Joe Howlett of Commended for their recent entries into the Biology Olympiad. 10B Robin Leverton,Tom Wadsworth and Oliver Tollford of 10H and Sam Kimber, Satchit Srikanth and Harry Curtis of 10B whose This year’s Biology Challenge takes place 14-25 March and will cooking so impressed the judges at the first heat that three involve Years 9 and 10. Boys will be aiming to gain Gold, Silver and teams have been allowed through to the final. The judges, Mr Bronze certificates. Year 10 will be entering as part of their timeta- Winstone and Mr Stathopoulos, provided constructive criticism bled curriculum. of how dishes could be improved but stated that overall they were very impressed with the standard. The final will be held on For Year 9 entry will be voluntary and take place at lunch times 23 March when Mr P Odgers, Principal Lecturer of Hospitality at and is being organised as a House Competition. Each entry will be the University of Brighton, will be judging the competition. The awarded points and the students successfully gaining certificates criteria are the same, two main courses and one dessert but the will gain extra points for their house. standards have been raised . Any parent who would like to attend the final is more than welcome to come along – please email Mr Detailed information will be made available through Biology Jones via the school office for details.- teachers and the plasma screen in the foyer. More information about the Challenge can be found at http://www.biology-olympiad.org.uk

MATHS IN ASTRONOMY LECTURE - MONDAY 14 MARCH Professor Carl Murray from Queen Mary University of London, whom you may have heard talking about planets on BBC Radio 4 will be taking this Lecture at 4pm on Monday.

MUFTI DAY FRIDAY 18 MARCH This is being held in aid of Grace House School in Cambodia. The cost to anyone wishing to participate will be £1.

JAZZ EVENING - FRIDAY 18 MARCH A huge sell-out event last year, the Jazz Evening is set to return to Wilson’s on Friday, 18 March at 20.00. There are only a few tickets remaining so do buy yours now before they all go.

SIXTH FORM PHILOSOPHY CONFERENCE – THURSDAY 17 MARCH (ACTIVITIES DAY) On 17 March, Wilson’s will host a philosophy conference for sixth formers. Sixth form students who are not studying philosophy but who would like to attend the conference would be very welcome. Full details are available on the RE department’s website under ‘RE conference’. Any sixth formers who would like to attend but who are not studying philosophy should email Dr Hemp as soon as possible.

ECO-SCHOOLS UPDATE The Eco-Schools recycling team have been busy extend- ing paper recycling at the school. There are now 37 desig- nated recycling boxes in the school, which are collected and scored on a weekly basis. Scores are based on the quantity of recycled paper, with negative marks if recycla- ble paper has been put in the black bins. Congratulations to the GCSE Art Room on winning the recycling challenge last half term with an average perfect score of 10! Con- gratulations also to the History Office and Room 19 for their sterling efforts in coming second and third!

SPRING CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL CONCERT - 6 APRIL This will be perhaps our most vibrant and exciting concert programme of recent months: William Walton’s Crown Imperial and a James Bond Medley for the joint orchestras of Wilson’s and Wallington High School for Girls, John Rut- ter’s Gloria and Bach’s Jesu Joy of Man’s Desiring from the joint choirs, and offerings from a range of other ensembles! Tickets will be on sale from the end of this week. Issue 182 March 11, 2011

FOOTBALL FIXTURES FOOTBALL RESULTS Saturday 12 March - Wilson’s vs. Glyn 1st XI Away Tuesday 1 March - Wilson’s vs. KCS Wimbledon 2nd XI Home U12A lost 0-3 U15A Away U12B won 2-1 U15B Away U12C drew 4-4 U14A Home U12D won 4-2 U14B Home U12E won 2-0 U13A Away U12F won 7-0 U13B Away U12A Home Wednesday 2 March - Wilson’s vs. Carshalton U12B Home 1st XI won 3-0 (Surrey League) Wednesday 16 March - Wilson’s vs. RGS Guildford 3rd XI won 7-0 1st XI Training 4th XI won 3-0 3rd XI Home 4th XI Home Thursday 3 March - Wilson’s vs. Glenthorne 5th XI Home U13A lost 0-3 6th XI Home Good luck to the U15A football team in their National Cup Saturday 5 March - Wilson’s vs. Latymer Upper quarter-final fixture away to Northampton Academy. They 1st XI drew 1-1 have an unbeaten record for an A team of 22 games, scor- 2nd XI won 2-1 ing 108 and conceding 22. This is a phenomenal record. U15A won 2-0 We wish them all the best of luck even though by the time U15B won 7-0 you receive this letter they will have played the fixture as U14A won 3-1 it is a 2:30pm KO on Thursday 10 March. U14B lost 1-3 U13A won 3-2 U13B won 3-2 TABLE TENNIS U12A lost 1-2 Both the U19 and U16 teams played in the National Team competi- U12B won 3-1 tion at the weekend. The U19’s faced strong opposition when they faced West London Academy, the reigning national Champions. However Michael Ho nearly beat the current top fifty senior player Daniel Basterfield. He twice fought back from a game down only to lose 11-7 in the RUGBY FIXTURES deciding game. The team comfortably beat King Edward, Totnes 8-0 and drew with Chesham Grammar 4-4 with Michael winning Monday 14 March Wilson’s vs.Ernest Bevin two and Harry Frost and Yash Shukla taking one each. Despite Yr 10 Home some trying antics by one opposition player the whole team performed with much credit and had the following games average: Wednesday 16 March Wilson’s vs.Box Hill Michael Ho - won 4 lost 2, Harry Frost - won 3 lost 3, Yash Shukla - Yr 11 Away won 3 lost 2 and Chris Hogg won 2 lost 4. The team are ranked in the top 12 nationally and next play Epsom Yr 12/13 Away College in the league on 15 March. The young U16 team travelled to Cheltenham and played above Training Schedule expectations against older opposition. The first two matches Monday Lunchtime Yr 8 & Yr 9 ended in 4-4 draws. The first against Lawrence Sheriff, Rugby saw After School Yr 7 Liam Grant win two with Alex Yee and Alex Rolls winning one Wednesday Lunchtime Yr 10 each. Amar Shukla put up a brave fight before losing in the fifth game. The same trio won the four games against Okehampton Thursday Lunchtime Yr 7 College with Alex Rolls coming from 2-0 down to win 3-2. We won After School Yr 8 & Yr 9 both matches on games countback. Once again we faced the current National Champions in St. Michaels’ , Camberwell. The team put up creditable resistance causing St. Michael’s to lose their only match of the day when Liam Grant, playing some exceptional RUGBY RESULTS table tennis, won one. Alex Yee nearly created an upset when he twice fought back against their number 1 only to lose 11-6 in the Yr 7 vs Shirley High won 24-15 deciding game. The best averages were: Liam Grant - won 5 lost 1, Alex Yee- won 2 lost 4, Alex Rolls - won 2 lost 4. The team are ranked in the top 8 nationally and they too play Epsom College on 15 March. CHESS RESULTS Last week the U12 squad played two friendlies against Stanley Park. The A team lost 7-3 with Alex Kelly and Hughie Curtis win- Wilson’s B beat Kingston A 6 – 0 ning a singles as well as teaming up fro a doubles win. Hughie Wilson’s C beat Wallington CGS A 3.5 – 2.5 fought hard to win in the fifth game. The B team lost 8-2. George Wilson’s D beat Hampton C 7.5 – 4.5 Kellingly played very well to win a singles and then partnered Kris Page to win their doubles. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 183 March 18, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY COMPOUND INTEREST Thursday 24 March - 4p.m. Classics Lecture Friday 1 April - Founder’s Day Last Wednesday the Year 10 team of chemists who had qualified for Wednesday 6 April - Spring Choral & Orchestral Concert the final of the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Chemistry Challenge’ Downland Section went to Kingston University to do battle with five WILSON’S PARENT PRAYER GROUP other teams. They were tested on their observational skills, practi- Just a reminder that there is a regular Wilson’s Parent Prayer cal skills and chemical knowledge over a space of two hours. I am Group that meets in the Chapel to support the school. If pleased to report that Wilson’s came out top in this competition your son attends the school and you are interested in join- and we were rewarded with a cheque for science equipment for the ing this group then please contact Dominic Beer dominic- school and Amazon tokens for each boy. [email protected] for further details and information. The date of the next meeting is Monday 9 May at 8 p.m. in the Chapel.

CLASSICS CLUB LECTURE - WHY BE JUST? On Thursday 24 March, Nicholas Denyer of Trinity College, Cambridge, will speak on the moral lessons of Plato’s Re- public and other fifth century BC philosophers. If you could commit crimes, profit from them, and guarantee to get away with it, what if anything would prevent you from doing so? The lecture starts at 4p.m. and is free for all. Pupils and parents are equally welcome.

MUFTI DAY REMINDER There will be a mufti day in aid of the Japan Relief Effort on Wednesday 6 April. There will be a charge of £1 for anyone participating. JUDO SUCCESS FOR THE JOHNSON TWINS Congratulations go to Arslan Rana, Tanay Verma, Callum Mance and Congratulations go once again to Thomas and William Simon Phillips. Johnson. Both have been selected to represent England in the Bremen International with a weigh-in on Friday evening and the tournament taking place on Saturday and Sunday. This is one of the top events for their age group in the world - last year there were almost 900 competitors from around the world. England has selected a team of 11. IFS Student Investor Challenge 2011 William is currently ranked U17Kg judoka at U60Kg having won each of the last 3 ranking tournaments in the UK. Thursday 11th of March saw a team of three Wilson’s boys Thomas is second ranked at U55 Kg - he won the last rank- (called Endevor) take part in the IFS Student Investor Chal- ing event. lenge 2011 South East England regional final. The year 10 team consisted of Ben Flook, Matthew Jacoutot and Jamie McGregor. Good luck to Thomas and William at Bremen this weekend. The fourth team member, Niall Sheridan was on football duty for the school so unfortunately had to miss an exciting and stimulating contest. In order to get to the regional final the Wilson’s boys first had to manage a portfolio of shares over a period of four months. The team managed to get placed 62nd in the league out of a field of over 7600 teams entered nation- SPRING CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL ally - a considerable achievement. This position required a high CONCERT quantity of outside lesson research and discussion in order to make informed share selection decisions.

The day of the regional final consisted of a variety of quizzes Tickets are now available for this con- based around business investment, economics and general knowledge. The finalists consisted of 80 teams of fellow share cert and parents should return reply investors, many of whom were Year 11 and 6th formers. How- slips or contact the Finance Office for ever Endevor ploughed on regardless, despite the tough ques- tickets as soon as possible to avoid dis- tions that came their way. Sadly, they didn’t make the final cut, appointment! but the team had a great day out, had a chance to meet a real investment manager and pit themselves against much older and more experienced teams. Congratulations to Endevor. Issue 183 March 18, 2011

MAKE YOUR MARK UPDATE MATHS IN ASTRONOMY LECTURE This week’s first lecture on ‘Maths in Astronomy’ gave an 2011’s Year 8 enterprise challenge is in full swing. audience Formally known as ‘Make Your Mark’, the campaign is of over supported by Dragon’s Den entrepreneur, Peter Jones, 100 from Big Lottery Fund and Michael and Xochi Birch, found- various ers of the social networking site Bebo. local schools With over 100 boys taking part, you cannot help but a tour of feel the business buzz among Year 8’s. Our budding planetary entrepreneurs have been implementing their business mo- ideas within and outside of school. Highlights thus far tion. We include amazing cake sales, discos, personalised mugs practiced and an international food evening. find- ing new The competition lasts the whole of March, when the moons boys will need to hand back their £10 loan. There at Saturn will be prizes for the best ideas and the most money using data from the raised, not forgetting house points available! Cassini probe. The talk finished with a small For further information please visit www.tenner- speck of light – Earth as tycoon.org seen from Saturn. We are grateful to Prof Carl Murray for his inspirational talk. The next talk is on Monday 21 March when Professor Dik Morling from the University of Westmin- ster will talk on ‘Maths in Electronics’. All A level maths students are welcome to attend at 4pm in the lecture theatre.

CHARLIE AND THE CHOCOLATE FACTORY

A capacity audience enjoyed excellent entertainment last Thursday, as the drama club staged their first production. Congratulations to all the human cast, and to the giant squirrel who received the loudest laugh of the evening. Many thanks also to the sixth form team for MOTHER’S DAY GIFTS AND CARDS their backstage expertise. Oliver will be selling hand made items for Mother’s Day in the foyer next Wednesday 23 March. Cards are £1 and presents from £1.50 to £5.00. Do come and support him.

NATHANIAL AND DILAN’S AMAZING CHOCOLATE CAKE SALE

After a very successful cake sale on 10 March, the keen cus- tomers pictured below are looking forward to the next cake sale on 24 March. Issue 183 March 18, 2011

A SELECTION OF PIANISTS

Many congratulations to all those students involved in the House Music competition this year! There were 143 entries and a total of over 1000 house points amassed by participants! Our external adjudicators were delighted with the standard of performance. A winner was awarded in each class, together with a discretionary ‘highly commended’ to up to three other performers. These winners will join with ensembles from each house to compete for even more points at the House Music Grand Fi- nal on Thursday, 31 March The results are as follows:

JUNIOR STRINGS Winner: Harry Perkin Highly commended: Sam Gates

SENIOR STRINGS CHRIS AVINS Winner: Christopher Avins CHARLIE OSBORN Highly commended: Sam Leggett

JUNIOR BRASS Winner: Oliver de Carteret Highly commended: Michael Ahearn, Jack Sinclair

SENIOR BRASS Winner: Charlie Osborn Highly commended: Sam Ridout

JUNIOR WOODWIND ORE TALABI Winner: Daniel Jacob-Ormson

SENIOR WOODWIND Winner: Sam Gee WILL PORTER Highly commended: Adheeb Hiba-Saibo

JUNIOR PIANO Winner: Lewis Lou Highly commended: Janakan Bosch, Timothy Cheng, Alexander Nielsen PETER FULLER

SENIOR PIANO Winner: Peter Fuller Highly commended: Wilson Lou, Charlie Osborn

JUNIOR GUITAR Winner: Will Porter

SENIOR GUITAR JOSHUA HAYES Winner: Alex Hill WILSON LOU VOICE Winner: James Harris Highly commended: Stephen Brown, Jason Kajdi

PERCUSSION Winner: Joshua Hayes Highly commended: Cellan Brady

HARRY PERKIN LEWIS LOU OLIVER DE CARTERET Issue 183 March 18, 2011

FOOTBALL FIXTURES Saturday 19 March - Wilson’s vs.Colfes FOOTBALL RESULTS 1st XI Away Monday 7 March - Wilson’s vs. Stanley Park (District 2nd XI Away League) U15A Home U15A won 8-0 U15B Home U14A Home Tuesday 8 March Wilson’s vs. Overton Grange (District U14B Home League) U12A won 9-0 Wednesday 23 March - Wilson’s vs. Christ’s Hospital U13A won 4-1 1st XI Away 2nd XI Away Wednesday 9 March - Wilson’s vs.St Paul’s 3rd XI Away 1st XI drew 1-1 4th XI Home 2nd XI lost 1-2 U13B Home 3rd XI won 3-1 U13D Home 4th XI drew 1-1 5th XI won 4-1 6th XI lost 1-2 RUGBY RESULTS Saturday 12 March - Wilson’s vs. Glyn U12A lost 0-2 Yr 7 vs Riddlesdown lost 0-29 U12B lost 0-4 Yr 8 vs Edenham Forfeited (arrived with 11 play- U13A won 3-1 ers) U13B drew 4-4 Yr 8 vs Cheam won 29-5 U14A lost 0-1 Yr 9 vs Edenham won 29-19 U14B lost 0-2 U15B won 4-1 Yr 9 have been selected to represent Surrey in the U14 London and South East State School competition on Wednesday 23 March. Congratulations to the Yr 9 U14 team who have been selected for this competition. The Surrey RFU has selected the school on their impressive results over previous weeks. RUGBY FIXTURES The boys will be competing in 10 minute half games against schools from Middlesex, Essex, Sussex, Kent, Hertfordshire, Wednesday 23 March Wilson’s vs. Archbishops Hampshire and the Eastern Counties. The competition is being Yr 11/12/13 Away held at Thurrock RFC, starting at 11am. Parents are very welcome to come along and support the team. League Fixtures completed - Knock Out Stages Await All age groups have completed their league fixtures and Friday is the deadline for all school games to be played. TABLE TENNIS Wilson’s have a chance to have all age groups in the The U19 and U16 teams had league matches against Epsom knock out stages if results go in our favour. Every age College this week with the U19’s winning comfortably 9-1. group has done exceptionally well this year and a huge Harry Frost did well to win his second match 13-11 in the commitment has been made by the boys turning up to deciding game. Chris Hogg had a couple of scares before training during lunchtimes and after school Well done to beating his two opponents in the fourth game. The U16s them. won 10-0. The team kept their unbeaten record with Andrew Macdonald doing well to overcome the No. 3, 12-10 in the third game. Both teams finish their League campaigns next Wednesday when they play at Whitgift. CHESS RESULTS

The U13 squads had two friendly matches with Stanley Park National Cup - last 16 last Wednesday. They were closely contested matches with Wilson’s beat Eltham College 4 – 2 the scores flattering both teams. The A squad lost by 8-2 However, due to the age handicap used in this tournament with Christian Kouppas playing well to beat their number two Wilson’s had to score at least 4.5 points to qualify for the while Vatsal Raina and Neev Trehan won their doubles. Neev quarter finals and so are knocked out. also lost closely in the deciding game to their number four. The B squad had an encouraging 7-3 win. Vyas Raina and BASKETBALL RESULTS Kenta Watson won both singles and their doubles matches while Nikhil Pattani did well to beat their number two and Congratulations to the U18’s who have won their first tournament also partnered Dekyong Webb to win their doubles match. at Epsom College last weekend. They beat City of London 39-5, Reeds 27-7 and Epsom College 21-18. WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 184 March 25, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY ENGLISH SCHOOLS’ CROSS COUNTRY Wednesday 30 March - Founder’s Day Rehearsal CHAMPION Thursday 31 March - House Music Grand Final Friday 1 April - Founder’s Day TOM HOLDEN Wednesday 6 April - Spring Choral & Orchestral Concert Our congratulations go to MUFTI DAY REMINDER Tom Holden from 9G who There will be a mufti day in aid of the Japan Relief Effort on won the English Schools’ Wednesday 6 April. There will be a charge of £1 for any- Cross Country Champion- one participating. Money raised will go to The British Red ships in Nottingham on Cross which is collecting funds to support the Japanese 19 March. This means he Red Cross which is playing a leading role in the disaster has now been selected to response. represent England in the Home Countries’ Inter- WORK EXPERIENCE FORMS - Y11 national Schools Cross A reminder that all work experience forms should be com- Country match in Antrim pleted and handed in to Mrs Chaplin in the main admin of- this Saturday where he fice as soon as possible. The deadline for receipt of these will be competing against forms is Friday 29 April the best athletes from Scotland, Wales and the WILSON’S GOT TALENT whole of Ireland. Any one who wishes to take part must see Mrs Gill on 28 or 29 April in Room F4 between 1:20 -1:50pm. This is a fantastic achieve- Auditions will be held the following week. ment for Tom and brings huge credit to him and to SAINSBURYS AND TESCO VOUCHERS the school and we wish him well in the event this weekend. Last year we managed to obtain over £400 worth of sports equipment for the school using the vouchers collected. We are aiming to beat that total this year so please do send your vouchers into school with your son. Collection boxes REGIONAL LANGUAGES SPELLING BEE are placed in the foyer outside the main admin office. COMPETITION A SPECIAL REQUEST TO PARENTS There are a number of pieces of electrical equipment in the On Wednesday 16 March, Music Department that – although working safely – are in Alec Walker (7B), Shuichi need of a service: amplifiers, stage pianos, and guitars. Any Chiba (7C), Saarujan So- parents with the relevant expertise are invited to contact theeswaran (7C) and Shrey the school! Patel (7S) travelled to Lon- don to attend the 3rd round of the Languages Spelling Bee. The competition was really fierce since more than 10 different schools from SPRING CHORAL & ORCHESTRAL

CONCERT around London were represented. The boys were excited and nervous at the same time. Our French team did well but Tickets are now did not manage to go through. available for this However, Shrey Patel impressed concert and par- all of us in the German Spelling ents should return Bee by coming 1st in the first and second rounds. Shrey is now reply slips or con- going to represent Wilson’s in tact the Finance the national finals that will take SPRING CHORAL & Office for tickets place in Cambridge at the end of ORCHESTRAL as soon as pos- the summer term. sible to avoid dis- Congratulations to the boys and CONCERT appointment! we wish good luck to Shrey or including Crown Imperial William Walton should we say “Viel Glück”. Themes from 007 John Barry, etc. Gloria John Rutter

date location time With WALLINGTON HIGH SCHOOL FOR GIRLS WILSON’S SCHOOL 7.30 P.M. Tickets £6 (£4 concessions); Wilson’s School pupils free 06/04/2011 www.wilsonsschool.sutton.sch.uk (What’s New) Issue 184 March 25, 2011

SURREY SATRO COMPETITION

Last Tuesday the Lower Sixth team of problem solvers went to the Finals of the Surrey SATRO problem solving competition. LEARN TO EARN Thirty teams, from 28 second- Last Thursday Year 8 participated in the Young Enterprise ary schools, maintained and Learn to Earn Day. This day had the specific aim of helping independent, competed in the the boys think about their future working life. Throughout Final hosted by Charterhouse at the day Year 8 investigated a number of areas; their personal Godalming. This year’s com- qualities, what it means to be successful, future earnings petition has involved 918 pupils and financing their desired lifestyle. The day progressed from 65 schools across the from the heady heights of the “Dream Lifestyle”, where some whole of the County. The event important lessons were learned about the financing of such coincides with National Science a lifestyle, to the more real experience of job interviews. and Engineering Week, sponsored by the British Association One of the best aspects of the day was the fact that the boys for the Advancement of Science were able to speak to professionals currently working in a and Technology. Competitors range of careers; law, finance, city trading, engineering, IT, had an hour and a half to build armed forces and graphic design. In fact some boys were a ping pong ball launcher which even interviewed by them! caused the ball to stick to a vertical board at the highest height possible. Although the boys Overall the day provided some fun, but thought provoking did not win they must be commended for their efforts. The team activities. Thank you to Year 8 for participating with such comprised Basit Haq, Oluwaseun Alayande, Reaz Baksh, Srishilan energy and enthusiasm. Thavalingam, Livio Modarresi and Aditya Gupta. SIXTH FORM PHILOSOPHY CONFER- ENCE

Year 12 and 13 Philosophy students hosted a Sixth Form Philosophy Conference at the school last Thursday; students from John Fisher and Wallington Boys’ school also took part. Students from the three schools presented fifteen essays on topics including the meaning of life, the value of courage, the philosophy of film and the existence of God. A panel of judges from Wilson’s and John Fisher awarded the £50 prize for best HOUSE MUSIC GRAND FINAL presentation to David Parke (U61); runner-up prizes were also given to Darren Mindham (L69) and Aidan Hanlon (John Fisher School). Staff from both schools were very impressed with both The Grand Final of House Music will take place at 1900 the quality of the presentations and the questions asked during on Thursday, 31 March and involve all House Music discussions; well done to all students involved. round winners. Each house is also invited to present a group performance; the winning one will be awarded SURREY AS TEAM MATHS 100 points! CHALLENGE

On Wednesday 9 March, five of our Lower Sixth mathematicians travelled to the University of Surrey in Guildford for the annual Surrey AS Team Maths Challenge. JAZZ EVENING This event is run by Surrey SATRO and was sponsored this year by EA Games, who wish to encourage more students to study Many Maths at University. Our team of Charlie Osborn, Reaz Baksh, thanks Daniel Hunt, Michael Louis and Dariush Micallef performed well to all and came 7th out of the 36 schools taking part. Well done to all the of them. participants in this year’s SURREY SCHOOLS SWIMMING fantas- GALA tic Jazz Eve- Congratulations to the boys who represented Wilson’s at ning. the recent Surrey Schools Swimming Gala at Trinity School. Spirits Despite only having three swimmers and not being able to were compete in all events the intermediate team managed to lifted by come second behind the national schools finalists Trinity an evening of great food (provided by Tim Pryse-Hawkins and by one point. Well done to Hiroki Harazawa for gold in the his team), great music (provided by jazz man Steve Ashworth 100m breaststroke and Tom Parker for a bronze in the 100m and the two dozen boys who rehearsed weekly in the three jazz freestyle. ensembles) and even a raffle! Congratulations to all involved!

Issue 184 March 25, 2011

VISIT TO THE BATTLEFIELDS OF THE SOMME

On Thursday 17 March, Year 10 History students, accompanied by members of staff, visited the Great War battlefields of the Somme. They visited Lochnagar Crater, Beaumont Hamel, Thiepval and Vimy Ridge. As part of the day a ceremony was conducted at Connaught Cemetery where Private Reginald Perrott (an old Wilsonian) is buried. He died on 30 September 1916 in the later stages of the Battle of the Somme. The school hymn was read by Robert Webster and Arslan Rana with a stanza of ‘For the Fallen’ being delivered by Oliver Taylor. A wreath was then laid by Mr Charnock on behalf of the Governors, staff and students of Wilson’s in memory of all Old Wilsonians who fell in the conflict. Two minutes of silence were then observed. The ceremony ended with each boy and all accompanying staff leaving a remembrance cross on Private Perrott’s grave. The boys conducted themselves with immense dignity throughout a very long but reward- ing day. YEAR 10 DEBATING

The Year 10 debating Enrichment has been very impressive this term. The year 10 boys have spent 12 lessons flexing their debating skills. Some notable debating performances – Sam Marshall, Sam Wright, Adam Parke, Liam Moloney, Nicky Paige, Henry Watson and Ben Pear- son debating whether gun laws should be reduced and if punishment for racism should be harsher. Some very high level debating boys, well done! SCIENCE AND PROBLEM SOLVING DAY FOR YEAR 9

Year 9 had a Science and Problem Solving day at school last Thurs- day. They were set the challenge of making shelters out of rolled newspapers strengthened by wallpaper paste in one activity. They had a lesson on radioactivity and a careers talk by a physicist from Surrey University. They also had a House Science Quiz and a problem solving activity involving launching and catching a ball. All the boys responded well to the challenges.

VISIT TO THE SCIENCE MUSEUM BY YEAR 7 On Thursday 17 March Year 7 had a day at the Science Museum. They visited many galleries but particularly enjoyed an hour in Launch Pad, an interactive gallery. The Flight gallery also proved popular as many boys braved the simulator ride there. Overall it proved a valuable experience with worksheets being completed, the boys behaving well and their scientific knowledge being extended. Issue 184 March 25, 2011

SPORTS PHOTOGRAPHS RUGBY FIXTURES Next Wednesday (30 March) is the day that photographs are taken of all school teams. Thre will be Monday 28 March - Knock Out Cup Competition a list published with the teams or squads involved Yr 10 Away Royal A&A and the timings of the photographs. Boys will be expected to attend punctually as there is only a FRIENDLY FIXTURES short period of time allocated to each photograph. Wednesday 30 March Wilson’s vs. Raynes Park it should be noted that the correct clean kit must Yr 11 Home be worn for the sport. If this is not the case, boys will not be included in the photograph. This also Wednesday 30 March Wilson’s vs. Reigate means the correct footwear. Please see Mr Moly- Yr 12/13 Away neux if you require further information. NATIONAL SCHOOL’S CROSS COUNTRY RUGBY RESULTS The school compete in the National school cross- Wednesday 16 March vs. Box Hill country final on Saturday 26th in Alnwick which Yr 11 won 54-5 is run around the castle used in the popular Harry Yr 12/13 won 5-0 Potter series. Good luck to them, a report will follow the competition.

FOOTBALL RESULTS

BADMINTON Monday 14 March - Wilson’s vs.Rutlish (Surrey Cup) TIFFIN TROPHY U15A lost 1-3 Last Wednesday 16 March the school U.19 team played badminton in the Tuesday 15 March Wilson’s vs. Coombe Boys’ prestigious Tiffin Trophy. School After beating Charter- U12A lost 3-4 house 9-0 and Royal Gram- (on penalties) mar 9-0 Wilson’s played Tiffin in the final. This was a very com- Wednesday 16 March petitive affair and was 1st XI lost 1-2 (Kingston Col- probably the best school lege) badminton that has been 2nd XI lost 0-1 (RGS 1st XI) seen in the tournament for 3rd XI won 4-1 (Riddlesdown many years. After reach- 1st XI) ing 4 -4 in the match the deciding rubber was played by Anand Krishnan and Michael Gunn. After 4th XI drew 2-2 (RGS 2nd XI) reaching one game a piece they found themselves match point down on 5th XI won 3-1 (RGS 3rd XI) two occasions in the final game .However nerves of steel saw them home 6th XI won 2-1 (RGS 4th XI) 23-21 to win the match for Wilson’s Team Krishnan, Heinemann, Patel, Gao, Northfield and Gunn. Saturday 19 March - Wilson’s vs. Colfes 1st XI won 4-0 NATIONAL SCHOOL BADMINTON CUP 2nd XI drew 2-2 The school will be competing in the finals on the weekend of Apri l2/3 in Nottingham. U14A drew 0-0 U14B lost 0-3 FOOTBALL FIXTURES U15A won 5-0 U15B won 11-2 Saturday 26 March - Wilson’s vs.Cardinal V 1st XI Away 2nd XI Home U15A Home U14A Away U13A Home CHESS RESULTS U12A Away Wilson’s A beat RGS Guildford A 4 – 2 Wednesday 30 March - Staff vs. Pupils Wilson’s C lost RGS Guildford B 2 – 4 Wilson’s E beat RGS Guildford C 9 – 3 Issue 184 March 25, 2011

RUGBY - SUTTON, CROYDON, MERTON & WANDSWORTH 2010-2011 FINAL LEAGUE STANDINGS

YEAR 7 LEAGUE TABLE TEAM PI W D L PTS Riddlesdown 7 7 0 0 28 Ernest Bevin 7 6 0 1 25 Wilson’s 7 4 0 3 19 Woodcote 5 3 0 2 14 Shirley High School 6 2 0 4 12 Edenham 5 0 0 5 5 Cheam 3 0 0 3 3 Carshalton Boys 2 0 0 2 2

YEAR 8 LEAGUE TABLE TEAM PI W D L PTS Ernest Bevin 7 7 0 0 28 Wilson’s 7 5 1 1 23 Riddlesdown 7 5 1 1 23 Shirley High School 6 2 0 4 12 Edenham 5 2 0 3 11 Woodcote 5 0 0 5 5 Carshalton Boys 3 0 0 3 3 Cheam 3 0 0 3 3

YEAR 9 LEAGUE TABLE TEAM PI W D L PTS Riddlesdown 5 4 0 1 17 Wilson’s 5 4 0 1 17 Woodcote 4 2 0 2 10 Carshalton Boys 3 1 0 2 6 Cheam 2 1 0 1 5 Edenham 3 0 0 3 3

YEAR 10 LEAGUE TABLE TEAM PI W D L PTS Wilson’s 6 6 0 0 24 Woodcote 6 5 0 1 21 Shirley High School 6 4 0 2 18 Riddlesdown 5 2 0 3 11 Carshalton Boys 5 1 0 4 8 Ernest Bevin 4 0 0 4 4 Edenham 3 0 0 3 3 Cheam 1 0 0 1 1

YEAR 11 LEAGUE TABLE TEAM PI W D L PTS Riddlesdown 4 4 0 0 16 Glenthorne 3 2 0 1 9 Wilson’s 3 1 0 2 6 Ernest Bevin 3 0 0 3 3 Woodcote 1 0 0 1 1 WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 185 April 1, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILSON’S WIN THE REGIONAL FINAL Wednesday 6 April - Spring Choral & Orchestral Concert OF THE TEAM MATHS CHALLENGE Tuesday 26 April - Term Begins Our congratulations go to our team of Philip Knott (9B), Thursday 28 April - Y7 Parents’ Evening Sharu Ravindran (9H), Harry Goodburn (8S) MUFTI DAY REMINDER and Eui-Jin Choi (8B) There will be a mufti day in aid of the Japan Relief Effort on who beat 35 other Wednesday 6 April. There will be a charge of £1 for any- schools to win the one participating. Money raised will go to The British Red regional final of the Cross which is collecting funds to support the Japanese Team Maths Chal- Red Cross, which is playing a leading role in the disaster lenge competition response. held at Trinity School. They showed excel- MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TRIPS lent problem solving Parents and carers are reminded that the final payment for skills and accuracy in the Year Nine Modern Foreign Languages trips is now due. all four rounds of the Your son should be bringing home in the very near future competition, worked extremely well as a team and even had an account of how much has already been paid. Please to sprint from one end of the hall to get answers checked send a cheque to school for the final amount and ask your and pick up new questions! Well done to the four students son to put it in the red post box under the stairs in the involved who will compete in the National Finals to be held foyer. We will be arranging meetings to discuss details of in London in June. timings and organisation of the trip for parents and participants closer to the departure date. If you have not already done so would you check your son’s passport and acquire DEBATING NEWS an EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) for him. On Sunday 27th March, Y10 students attended a Model United Nations Conference at King’s College School Wimbledon. High- SAINSBURYS AND TESCO VOUCHERS lights include: Tom Wadsworth’s resolution on intervention in Last year we managed to obtain over £400 worth of sports Libya passed unanimously by the Politics/Defence committee; equipment for the school using the vouchers collected. We Hayden Jones successfully amended a resolution before the are aiming to beat that total this year so please do send Economic/Social committee; Adheeb Hiba-Saibo’s resolution your vouchers into school with your son. Collection boxes on North Korea chosen by the organisers as one of the best at are placed in the foyer outside the main admin office. committee stage and subsequently presented to the General Assembly; Karim Abu-Seer voted second Best Male Delegate. HOUSE SMOOTHIE SALE Congratulations to all the team including Samir Dewan, Ben There will be a sale of smoothies in the Hall on Wednes- Flook, Declan Jones, Arslan Rana, Jack Taperell and Ollie day 6 April with profits going to the Japan earthquake Tollford who acquitted themselves creditably against 6th form and house points to the House raising the most money. opponents. Smoothies will cost £1 each. On Monday 28th March, Wilson’s hosted a debating event attended by Y9 and Y10 students from Sutton Grammar, Sutton WOODCOTE NURSERY VOUCHERS High and Croydon High Schools. The Y9 Chamber debates The summer voucher scheme is back on at Wood- were won cote Nurseries. We would be extremely grateful if by Sutton you could ask for vouchers if you shop there and Gram- then bring them in and either hand in to the office mar and or direct to Mr Phillips. We have been able to buy our Wilson’s re- seeds for the allotment with these vouchers and it spectively, makes a huge difference to the school. with James Nash GRAFTING SESSION A GREAT SUCCESS named As part of our fruitful school project nearly 30 boys best con- and staff got the chance to learn how to graft apple tributor trees. The point of grafting is to ensure you get ex- from the actly the same fruit as the parent plant but on a small floor. The manageable sized tree. Lewis, our Fruitfull Schools Y10 BP de- representative, showed us all how to do it with se- bates were cateurs and an extremely sharp grafting knife. We very hard grafted 30 trees and now all we can do is wait to see fought; which ones have been successful. We will be keeping Luke Kosky and Jack Bolt made it through to the final only to some for ourselves but also making donations to local be beaten by an excellent team from Croydon High School, primary schools. A video of the procedure will soon who also won best speaker. Many thanks to Kartik Iyer, ,James be up on the school website so keep looking. We have Nash, Sulaiman Malik and Alastair Prince from Y9, Jack Bolt, also updated our Eco-Wilson’s pages so please do Luke Kosky, Robin Leverton and Tim Sharpe from Y10, and have a look. especially to Will Ries, Harry Gower, Kes Daood and Brandon Lundini for ably chairing and judging the event. Issue 185 April 1, 2011

UK CHESS CHALLENGE 2011 MIDDLE SCHOOL MASTER CHEF FINALS

Over 100 Wilson’s pupils took part in this year’s UK Five teams from Y9 and Y10 have made it through to the final of Chess Challenge, with a record 45 qualifying for the Sur- Middle school master chef. Jamie Barry and Aaron Mallet made rey Megafinal. Three separate events were run on Mon- a spectacular effort in that they were taxied by Jamie’s father day, Wednesday and Thursday lunchtimes. The winners from a school rugby match to school in order that they did not of the 3 separate events were all from the school first miss the start of the competition. Standards were high, only 16 team: Anand Krishnan (12C), Philip Knott (9B) and Adam points in it. Judge Mr P Odgers, Principal Lecturer of Hospital- Taylor (9S). ity at the University of Brighton commented “what the boys produced could easily have been created by the students at the The form competition was won by 7C with 207 points University on the Culinary Arts course” and he would have been ahead of last year’s winners 8S on 181 points. Third were happy to attend a dinner party that any of the boys decided to 7B on 129 points, one point ahead of 10S. Fifth were 8H host. Congratulations to Robin Leverton, Thomas Wadsworth on 120 points. A total of 29 forms were represented in and Oliver Tollford of 10H for their spectacular food, with a this tournament. specific commendation to Aaron Mallet of 9B for the best rack of Lamb that Mr Odgers had ever tasted. Thanks go to Miss Guy The leading house was Southwark with 486 points, with who has helped with the running of the competition and is tak- Camberwell second on 374 and Brecon just third on ing over its organisation and Mr Pryse-Hawkins for his sterling 272. efforts in raising the standards of the competition through his master chef class. Those who qualified for the Megafinal, which is to be played on Monday 2nd May (a bank holiday), should receive their entry forms before the end of term. If you CLASSICS CLUB LECTURE Last Thursday, Nick Denyer of Trinity College, Cambridge, came to the school and delivered a challenging and inspiring lecture about ancient Greek views of the nature of justice to an appreciative audience. A good number of students from Wilson’s and other schools attended and pored over his selection of critical texts in English and Classical Greek, and Mr Denyer happily answered questions afterwards.

We were pleased with the response to this inaugural lecture and are encouraged to organise a more extensive programme of visiting speakers next year. SURREY SWIMMING COMPETITION Our congratulations go to Ryan Shankar (8H) on his recent performance in the Surrey Swimming Competition. He gained 2 silver medals (1500 front crawl, 4* 50 meter relay) and 2 bronze medals (400meter individual medley and 200 meter butterfly)

ADVERTISING IN THE SIXTH FORM MERCURY Would your company like to advertise in the Mercury, Wilson’s School’s fortnightly sixth-form newsletter? If so, or if you would like to support this student-run publica- tion in other ways, please contact Mr Johnstone via the school office. Issue 185 April 1, 2011

RUGBY RESULTS FOOTBALL RESULTS Wednesday 23 March Wilson’s vs. Christ’s Hos- Cup Plate Playoff Wilson’s vs. Riddlesdown pital Yr 9 lost 19-25 3rd XI lost 1-3 Yr 8 lost 10-33 4th XI won 2-1 Yr 9 now play Howard of Effingham in the Plate Quarter Final 5th XI won 3-1 (Wednesday 30 March) U13B drew 1-1 U13C won 1-0 Friendly, Wilson’s vs. Archbishops Thursday 24 March - District Cup Finals Yr 12/13 won 41-10 1st XI won 4-2 (Glenthorne) U14A lost 1-2 (Stanley Park) Friendly, Wilson’s vs. Raynes Park U15A won 2-1 (Overton Grange) Yr 11 won 7-5 U16A won 3-1 (Overton Grange) Saturday 26 March Wilson’s vs. Cardinal Cup Quarter Final vs. Royal A&A Vaughan Yr 9 lost 5-47 U12A won 6-0 Plate quarter Final vs. Howard of Effingham U13A won 4-3 Yr 9 lost 12-24 U14A won 10-0 U15A won 3-2

Wilson’s Represent Surrey at U14 TABLE TENNIS State School Rugby Competition Two Wilson’s teams played friendly matches Wilson’s School, after an excellent season, were chosen to repre- against Epsom College. The teams consisted of sent the county in the State School Competition at Thurrock RFC. boys with limited experience of match play. The The boys competed against schools from Eastern Counties, Essex, U16 team played against Epsom’s league side and Hampshire, Hertfordshire, Kent, Middlesex and Sussex. After 3 were understandably beaten. Several matches heavily contested group games, Wilson’s played against Brentwood went to the fourth game but congratulations go School (Eastern Coun- to Patrice Wie who, playing for Wilson’s for the ties) and having been first time, won one of his singles. The U13 team level at half time, tied played well and ran out 8-2 victors. Vatsal and legs meant Wilson’s Vyas Reina and Kenta Watson won both their went down 35-14, singles while Tarun Donde won one. Kenta and meaning Wilson’s fin- Tarun also won their doubles to complete two ished 6th overall. The very worthwhile matches. boys have improved The school U13 team completed their league a huge amount since programme with a win over Homefield last week beginning in Year 8 by 9 -1. Liam Grant, Alex Sparks, Curtis Rose and and to be chosen to Ewan Robertson all had comfortable wins. Liam, represent the county who has represented the U16 in the National Cup having only played Competition with distinction also remained un- for one year is a huge beaten in the league. This victory gives Wilson’s achievement. A big thank you goes to Mr Barry, who came to sup- first place in the London South Schools league. port the boys and supplied a selection of doughnuts at the end of The U19 and U16 teams were due to play Whit- gift on Wednesday but Whitgift withdrew giving Wilson’s a walkover. A disappointing end to the CHESS RESULTS season but one in which they retained the league title. The U16’s had their closest league match Wilson’s B lost Sutton A 2 - 4 of the season playing very well to lead after the Wilson’s C lost Sutton B 5.5- .5 singles 5-3. Alex Rolls won both his matches and Wilson’s D beat Emanuel 10 – 2 Alex Yee, Amar Shukla and Curtis Rose won one each. Two close doubles matches followed which So concludes this year’s Surrey School’s Chess league, with our five Wilson’s narrowly lost, leaving them as runners up teams winning one first place, two second places and one third in the league.

BADMINTON RESULTS GOLF RESULTS

Wilson’s vs. Kings College wimbledon Surrey League Surrey Schools Golf Competition Wilson’s won 9-0 Ollie Sitch won the Gross Score Competition Sam Chaplin won the Net Score Competition Issue 185 April 1, 2011

SURREY SECOND SCHOOL CHESS LEAGUE FINAL TABLES 2010-2011

DIVISION 1 TEAM PI W D L PTS GAMES Wilson’s 10 10 0 0 20 45.5 RGS Guildford 10 7 0 3 14 38 Hampton 10 6 0 4 12 32.5 Whitgift 10 5 0 5 10 32.5 Trinity 10 2 0 8 4 18.5 Reigate GS 10 0 0 10 0 13

DIVISION 2 TEAM PI W D L PTS GAMES Sutton 10 8 1 1 17 45 Hampton 2 10 4 3 3 11 30 Wilson’s 2 10 4 1 5 9 32 KCS Wimbledon 10 3 3 4 9 26.5 Kingston GS 10 3 2 5 8 22.5 Caterham 10 1 4 5 6 24

DIVISION 3 TEAM PI W D L PTS GAMES Homefield 10 10 0 0 20 45.5 Sutton 2 10 5 2 3 12 34 RGS Guildford 2 10 4 2 4 10 31.5 Trinity 2 10 3 3 4 9 27.5 Wilson’s 3 10 3 1 6 7 23.5 Wallington 10 1 0 9 2 18

DIVISION 4 TEAM PI W D L PTS GAMES Hampton 3 8 7 0 1 14 69 Wilson’s 4 8 6 1 1 13 68 Trinity 3 8 6 1 1 13 65 Sutton 3 8 5 2 1 12 63 Whitgift 2 8 3 0 5 6 51 Emanuel 8 3 0 5 6 44.5 KCS Wimbledon 2 8 3 0 5 6 41 John Fisher 8 1 0 7 2 14.5 George Abbot 8 0 0 8 0 16

DIVISION 5 TEAM PI W D L PTS GAMES Sutton 4 6 6 0 0 12 56.5 Wilson’s 5 6 5 0 1 10 45 RGS Guildford 3 6 3 0 3 6 43.5 Caterham 2 6 3 0 3 6 37 Trinity 4 6 2 0 4 4 33 Reigate GS 2 6 2 0 4 4 29 Kingston GS 2 6 0 0 6 0 8 WILSON’S SCHOOL Issue 186 April 8, 2011 WEEKLY UPDATE IMPORTANT DATES FOR YOUR DIARY WILSON’S COMPETE IN THE Tuesday 26 April - Term Begins Thursday 28 April - Y7 Parents’ Evening NATIONAL SCHOOLS’ BADMINTON Friday 13 May - Y11/12 Study Leave Begins CUP FINAL SAINSBURYS AND TESCO VOUCHERS The U.16 team Last year we managed to obtain over £400 worth of sports played in equipment for the school using the vouchers collected. We the National are aiming to beat that total this year so please do send Schools Bad- your vouchers into school with your son. Collection boxes minton Cup are placed in the foyer outside the main admin office. Final at Not- tingham last WOODCOTE NURSERY VOUCHERS weekend. The summer voucher scheme is back on at Wood- cote Nurseries. We would be extremely grateful if This year the you could ask for vouchers if you shop there and competition then bring them in and either hand in to the office was very tough or direct to Mr Phillips. We have been able to buy our and they faced seeds for the allotment with these vouchers and it one of the fa- makes a huge difference to the school. vourites in the second round. After a number of very close games they unfortunately lost ADVANCE NOTICE - LOWER SIXTH MANAGEMENT EVENT and this was very much the theme for the day. Despite the A joint event with Wallington Girls will take place on Friday best efforts of the team, Wilson’s were placed 6th overall 1st and Monday 4th July. Parents/Guardians if you feel that which was in itself a great achievement. Over 2000 schools you could offer your services as a facilitator for one or both entered the competition and to be placed in the top ten of of the days, please contact Mrs Mitchelmore at the school. all schools is no mean feat. [email protected] A fantastic team effort by all concerned. The team members were: William Gao, Michael Gunn, Josh Mackley, Sam CHESS AT IMPERIAL COLLEGE Barber and Sandeep Saji. The team are pictured above with internationals Nathan Robertson and Jenny Wallwork Four of our older chess players took the opportunity last weekend to play in a team chess tournament COUNTY CHESS PLAYERS organised by Imperial College Chess Club. This event included both academic and club teams. For most of Last Saturday Philip Knott (9B) played first board for the the day Wilson’s were the leading Academic institu- Surrey U14 team who won the Southern regional U14 tion but in the last round were overtaken by Imperial tournament. He played his part in winning both his games. College first team. As well as enjoying the chess and On Sunday Adam Taylor (9S) and Aditya Gupta (L6) played mixing with university students they also experienced for the Surrey U18 first team here at Wilson’s in the South- a Student’s Union building on the day of the World ern Regional U18 tournament. Surrey also won this event Cricket Cup Final! with Adam winning both his games and Aditya scoring a win and a draw. Also playing for Surrey teams were Thomas Higgs (10B), John Candia (10S), Mayukh Padhi (9G), Owen Wright (11C) and Pavan Murali (9S). Dr Cooper ran both of these events in his capacity of Junior organiser for the JACK PETCHEY AWARD Southern Counties Chess Union.

Congratulations to Mark Goldhawk who has been awarded the Jack Petchey award for all the hard work which he puts in to support the school with lighting and equipment for school productions, Drama and Musical events. Well done Mark.

Issue 186 April 8, 2011

MATHS CIRCLE LECTURES YEAR 11SILVER DofE PRACTICE Wilson’s is unique in the country as a state EXPEDITION TO ASHDOWN FOREST school running a series of free maths lectures with eminent speakers. Our final lecture last On Friday 1st April, 34 year 11 pupils set off for their practice silver Monday was by Dr Emma McCoy who is Head expedition near Ashdown Forest after undertaking a morning of of the Mathematics Department at Imperial first aid training. The expedition involved three days of walking and College. She gave a riveting talk on the maths two nights camping which tested their navigation, cooking and in gambling, including how the Bookmaker/Ca- campcraft skills as well as their ability to successfully work together sino/Lottery will always win in the long run! She as a team. They also had to deal with Mr Beggs unexpectedly ask- used examples from Darren Brown to show how ing a team member to remove their boot towards the end of their people’s perceptions of probability are often second day walk to simulate a twisted ankle! The boys applied their wrong and how using statistics wisely puts you newly acquired first aid skills and showed tremendous teamwork at an advantage in Poker. as they struggled into the second campsite carrying each others’ bags and supporting their ‘injured’ team member. Overall the boys This year’s maths lecture series has been the impressed with their expedition skills and should now be looking most popular ever, with each lecture having an to learn from this experience as they prepare for their assessment attendance of over 100. The audience comprises expedition in the New Forest on 16th – 18th July. not just Wilson’s pupils but also included many students from Wallington Girls and some from other schools including Wallington CGS, Whit- gift, St Philomena’s, Royal Alexandra and Albert School, Old Palace School, Wimbledon College and Cambridge Tutors College. Dr Cooper is already planning next year’s lectures which hope- fully will include lectures on Maths in Computer Games, Maths in Finance and how mathematicians helped us win World War 2.

NATIONAL CIPHER CHALLENGE

Wilson’s has a raft of budding code breakers. This was shown by their great performances in the National Cipher Challenge. Teams of pupils tackled the challenges each week during the Autumn term. Two Wilson’s groups solved all the challenges and were ranked amongst the best in the country. One group, of Victor Mikh- no and Oliver Myerscough in the upper sixth, used a combination of their maths, computing and problem solving skills to come 9th in country. Because of this outstanding performance they were invited to the national prize giving at Bletchley Park, the hub of the national code breaking team in the second World War. It was here that the world’s first electronic computer was developed, but in such secrecy that no one knew for 50 years.

Next year’s National Cipher Challenge is already being developed and it hoped that even more teams from Wilson’s will tackle the problems when it is launched in September. Issue 186 April 8, 2011

Rugby Shows Great Strides with Wasps & Wilson’s Combo

Wilson’s Rugby has improved hugely over the past season and numbers have almost doubled in terms of representing the school or simply training during lunch time and after school. The introduction of a new playing shirt for Year 9 and 10 (intermediate) and Year 11 and Sixth Form (senior) along with water proof training tops for warm ups has helped in improving the professionalism of the sport within the school and amongst other schools.

All age groups have achieved success and for the first time in the history of the school Wilson’s now has a Year 7 team. The team narrowly missed out on reaching the knock out stages and there is potential for them to certainly compete in years to come. Robert Cooke has been an inspirational leader for the team and along with regulars such as Sam Kinch, Alex Kelly, Adam Mackenzie and Julian Ford; the team has the foundations to strive for success next season.

The Year 8 Team were narrowly defeated in their playoff game, but have shown glimpses of excellence, with Harry Wright dictating play and fly half. Other regulars include Murdo Hepburn, Harry Tee, Alex Storey, Tim Mash and Aditya Doshi, who have all put in memorable performances.

The Year 9 Team have grown from strength to strength since only starting last year. Early results earned them the right to represent Surrey in the Under 14 State School Competition where they finished a respectable 6th out of eight. The boys battled but unfortunately came off second best in the Quarter Finals of the Plate Competition but have come a long way since their first game. Marcus Christie and Jake Field have been exceptional this year, along with Dominic Wil- son and Daniel Skinner in the back line and ever present Harry Rogers driving on the forwards with the awesome duo of Abisegan Sivakumar and Ravi Yaathavan.

The Year 10 Team achieved a clean sweep of 6 wins out of 6 in the group stages but came unstuck in the Quarter Finals of the Cup. Again, Rob Webster and Chris Mallet led the back line, with Matt Jacoutot stepping in at fly half and doing a tremendous job. Karim Abu-Seer, Rory McNevin, Archie Williams, Joe Perry and Cameron Clark have all improved over the season and have all contributed to the success of the team.

The Year 11 Team again achieved some great success this year with a big win over Box Hill and a closely fought victory over Raynes Park. Sam Giles has carried a lot of ball and has become the Penalty taking master, whether it be kicking to touch or tapping and going. Peter Atkinson, Marcus Bird and Adam Drew have also put in huge performances and without people like Matt Brown, Owen Wright and Andre Woolgar, the team would not be able to function.

The 6th Form Team made up of Year 12 and 13 have also achieved success against Box Hill and Sutton Grammar and have improved with every game. Tobia Charles has been excellent in leading the back line, along with recent addition Peter Bennett. Sam Ajayi has added a lot of speed and aggression to the team and tenacious Tom Grimes has improved at full back. In the forwards, Henry Kyriacou and Tommy Graham have been regulars in the front row, Josh Giles has been excellent in the 2nd Row and Guy Morgan and Jack Di Lizia have been superb in the back row.

The school have also been able to purchase a state of the art scrummage machine which has been a great addition. All age groups have been able to use the machine and especially at the higher end of the school, the practice has helped massively. Rugby is a growing sport at the school and the season wouldn’t have been as big a success without the help of Mr Stradwick. Mr Stradwick has joined the school as an external coach through the community link with London Wasps. Mr Stradwick has provided excellent advice to the boys and all teams have been able to experienece his coaching during lessons and after school, as well as during match days.

Next year, both Under 15s and Under 18s will compete in the Daily Mail Cup. This is an excellent opportunity for the boys to compete on a national level. Other age groups will continue to compete in the local leagues and soon all age groups will be making the knock stages on a regular basis. The futures’ bright, the future’s Rugby!!!!!