FURTHER INFORMATION 2019 GRANT’S HOUSE

Founded in 1750, Grant’s is the oldest house in any of the Public Schools. It is named after the “mothers” Grant, who were landladies who owned the property and put up boys in the days before boarding existed.

Welcome This booklet provides parents and pupils with all the information needed to apply for boarding or day places at School.

Entry to Westminster

Entry at 13+ 3 Entry at 11+ 5 Entry to Under School at 7+ or 8+ 5 Entry at 16+ (Sixth Form entry) 6 Applying for a boarding place 6 Scholarships and Bursaries 8 Fees 10 Aerial photograph showing location of school facilities 12 – 13

Additional information

The Challenge 2018 15 Our 13+ feeder schools 2018 16 Exam results 17 – 18 Leavers’ destinations 2018 19 3

Entry to Westminster

Entry at 13+ Pre-interview Tests Interview The first stage is for the candidate Candidates who have performed At 13+ entry every year Westminster to take some tests in Mathematics, strongly in the ISEB Common has an intake of about 120 boys who English and Reasoning. Westminster Pre-Tests are invited to Westminster enter Year 9. About 45% come from School uses the Independent School for an interview. Parents and the Schools Examinations Board (ISEB) are informed mid-December and remainder comes from a wide range Common Pre-Tests. interviews take place in January of schools. At 13+ pupils may apply and February during the Lent term. for boarding or day places. For more information about these When a boy comes to Westminster tests please refer to the ISEB for his interview he also takes short 13+ Registration website: https://www.iseb.co.uk/ tests in English and Mathematics – The first step in the 13+ entry Parents/What-are-the-Common-Pre- he will spend about 90 minutes at process is to register your son. Tests. Boys take the tests at their the School. A boy should be registered by the prep schools during October end of Year 5 (the academic year or November. These tests are online School Report of his 10th birthday). To register with no special preparation We attach great importance to online, please visit our website: necessary. Raw scores are adjusted the report we receive from a www.westminster.org.uk/admissions. to take account of a boy’s date candidate’s present school. Apart of birth so that younger candidates from information about the boy’s are not disadvantaged. It is usually Visiting the School character, interests and potential, possible for overseas candidates to The best time to visit the School we also ask for information that take the tests at their own schools. is while your son is in Year 5. To will help us, where appropriate, If there is a problem, however, we arrange a 13+ visit please enquire to compare him with other can arrange for the boy concerned online: www.westminster.org.uk/ candidates from that school. to take the tests at Westminster. admissions/open-days/. Every year Boys who attend primary schools there are three 13+ Open Afternoons should be registered for 11+ entry and there are also regular tours to Westminster Under School (see of the School in groups of no more page 5) – the system described than five families. above is for boys who can remain at their prep schools until they are 13. Meeting and assessing the candidate While a candidate is in Year 6 we decide whether to offer him a place. We do this by gathering information from various sources: 4 5

The Challenge Online registration opens in June Entry at 11+ Entry to the Under one year before the date of entry The Challenge is the traditional Our 11+ entry of approximately School at 7+ or 8+ and closes at the end of September name for Westminster’s 13+ 25 boys is designed for pupils who – registration for entry in 2020 scholarship examinations. It is Entry to the Under School at 7+ attend state or independent primary will close in September 2019. There the means by which Queen’s and 8+ is by competitive examination schools that they must leave at are two open days every year, one Scholars, Honorary Scholars and in the January before entry. For the end of Year 6. Boys spend two in June and another in September Exhibitioners are chosen. For information, please contact the years (Years 7 and 8) at Westminster bookable from April on our website. information about this, please read Under School’s Registrar alycia.lee@ Under School and then transfer to Admission is by competitive the section of this booklet entitled westminster.org.uk. Please note that the senior school when they are 13. examination and interview. ‘Scholarships and Bursaries’. boys who enter Westminster Under A pupil who enters the Under School Candidates select the four subjects, School at 7+ or 8+ must be registered at the 11+ stage automatically has in which they are examined, based The decision about whether to separately by their parents for entry an unconditional place for entry to on their likely A-level/Pre-U choices. enter a boy for The Challenge is to at 13+. Westminster School at 13+. A boy Candidates may sit the examinations usually made by his prep school. who is awarded a means-tested overseas at the British Council but If you would like your son to sit bursary at 11+ is guaranteed a place they must come to Westminster The Challenge, it is, therefore, Entry at 16+ at Westminster School at 13+ subject School for interview on the essential to discuss the matter to satisfactory progress. For further (Sixth Form entry) designated day. The examination with his present head teacher information about bursaries, please day is in early November and the and ask him or her to counter-sign There is an intake of 75 or so pupils consult the section entitled interview day is at the end of that The Challenge application form. who enter Year 12 (16+ entry). ‘Scholarships and Bursaries’. Most of these pupils are girls but month. Offers of places are made in early December. Reaching a decision The Waiting List The Challenge examinations take applications from boys are also To register your son for 11+ entry place in April or May. All Challenge welcome. Both boarding and day We look carefully at all the If we do not feel that it would please visit the Under School’s Four Queen’s Scholarships are candidates sit papers in the following places are available. information we have assembled be appropriate to offer a boy an website: www.westminsterunder.org. awarded to girls entering the Sixth before deciding whether to offer an immediate unconditional place, subjects: Mathematics, English, uk/admissions/entry-points/. 11+ Pupils joining the Sixth Form of Form. Means-tested day bursaries unconditional place. The decision to we may put his name on the Waiting Science, French, Geography, History Open Mornings are held in June Westminster School must be under are available for candidates who live offer a boy an unconditional place List. From time to time we will ask and . (If a boy attends a school and September, booking is online: 17 years old. The procedure for entry in . For further information, means that we believe he will be able head teachers to update us on the where Latin is not taught, please www.westminsterunder.org.uk/ at 16+ is explained fully in a separate please look at the section entitled comfortably to achieve the standard progress of boys on the Waiting List email the Registrar for advice.) admissions/open-days/. publication. To obtain a copy of ‘Scholarships and Bursaries’. we require for entry to the School and, in this way, boys who did not Past Challenge papers can be the Sixth Form Courses Brochure, when he is 13, while also enjoying do themselves justice in the tests Please contact the Under School’s downloaded from our website: please visit our website: a broad and varied education. are given further opportunities to Registrar alycia.lee@westminster. www.westminster.org.uk/admissions/ www.westminster.org.uk/ show us what they are capable of. org.uk for further information about scholarships/the-challenge/ admissions/prospectuses/ An unconditional offer is on the A boy who is on the Waiting List the 11+ entry process. expectation of continued good may be promoted to an unconditional Once the decision has been made conduct and academic progress at place at any time up to the end to enter a boy for The Challenge, his existing prep school, including of March in Year 8. parents should email registrar@ an unreserved reference of support westminster.org.uk to obtain from his school in Year 8. It is not Parents who wish to accept the a Challenge application form. our intention that boys should be offer of an unconditional place will put under unnecessary pressure – be asked to pay an entrance fee we want them to enjoy sport, music, of 4% of the current annual day fee. drama and all the other activities The fee is refundable only if the that make school life richer and prep school considers the candidate more enjoyable. to have failed to demonstrate the expected continued good conduct and academic progress and is consequently not admitted to the School. 6 7

16+ (Sixth Form) Entry Boarders from overseas Applying for a day place A 16+ candidate who wishes to For boys under the age of 16 It is not customary for the parents board must indicate this at the time Westminster is a weekly boarding of candidates who are applying for of registration. Boarding places are school and parents must live close day places to meet Housemasters available for boy and girl applicants. enough to the School so that boys during the application process. Boys may board in one of the four can return home at weekends or We also prefer parents not to express houses described in the previous when they are unwell. Boys under 16, a preference for a particular day section about 13+ entry. Girls can therefore, cannot board if their house unless there is a strong family board in Purcell’s, which is a girls-only parents live overseas. connection. Our aim is, of course, boarding house with day boy pupils, to ensure that all houses have or in Busby’s, Grant’s or Liddell’s, We welcome boarders from overseas equally high standards of pastoral which are mixed houses with girls- to join our Sixth Form, although care and in allocating day boys and only floors. Girls awarded Queen’s parents must be aware that most girls to houses we try to ensure Scholarships board on a girls-only of our boarders return home every that each house has among its floor of College. weekend and that it is not possible members a similar cross-section for boarders to remain at the School of talents and backgrounds. The Sixth Form open days in June during half-term holidays or during and September include a tour of the two ‘exeat weekends’ every term. the boarding houses for those, who All boarding pupils whose parents are interested. live abroad must, therefore, have a guardian who will take the place The Girls’ Boarding Houses: of his or her parents. A pupil must be able to stay with his or her guardian Busby’s There are five boarding houses for The Boys’ Boarding Houses: when the School is closed and the Applying for a Housemaster: Mr Paul Botton boys and all are situated around guardian must be available at all Busby’s Grant’s boarding place Little Dean’s Yard. One of these times to discuss with members of Housemaster: Mr Paul Botton Housemaster: Mr Nick Fair houses is College, which is the staff any problems that may have 13+ Entry Grant’s Liddell’s boarding house for the Queen’s arisen. In the event of illness or Housemaster: Mr Nick Fair Housemaster: The decision about whether to Scholars. For further information suspension from the School, the Liddell’s Dr Ransford Agyare-Kwabi apply for a boarding or day place about College, please look at the guardian must take the pupil into Housemaster: Purcell’s does not have to be made at the time section entitled ‘Scholarships and his or her home. Westminster Dr Ransford Agyare-Kwabi Housemaster: Dr Gabrielle Ward-Smith of 13+ registration. In fact, it is not Bursaries’. The four remaining School must be satisfied that the Rigaud’s unusual for the final decision to be houses all have between 25 and 30 arrangements for a guardian are Housemaster: Dr Richard Kowenicki If a parent expresses a preference delayed until a boy is in his final boys boarding. Younger boys share satisfactory before an application for a particular house we will aim year at prep school. Provided that rooms but a boy will usually have his from an overseas candidate can If a parent expresses a preference for to respect that choice, but it is not a place is available, it is also possible own room from Year 11 onwards and be accepted. for a boy to switch to boarding certainly once he enters the Sixth a particular boarding house, we will always possible to do so. having started at Westminster as Form. Day boys and girls are also aim to respect that choice, but it is a day boy and vice versa. members of these houses. not always possible to do so.

To arrange a visit to a Boarding House, please email registrar@ westminster.org.uk. Every June we have a Boarder Taster Evening for boys in Year 7 who hold offers of places. 8 9

The 13+ Scholarship 13+ Honorary Scholarships Bursaries Examination Challenge candidates who do not Means-tested day bursaries of up Scholarships and Bursaries th Since at least the 17 century wish to be elected to a resident to 100% of day fees are available the Westminster Scholarship Queen’s Scholarship may be at 11+, 13+ and 16+ entry. We aim to What is the difference between a scholarship and a bursary? Examination has been known as awarded the title of Honorary act as sensitively as possible; very The Challenge. For centuries it was Scholar if their performance in few members of staff and none of an oral grammatical contest, but the examination is indisputably of the other pupils will be aware that Academic and music scholarships encompasses both Westminster back to the early 18th century. It is written papers were introduced in the calibre of a Queen’s Scholar. a boy or girl is receiving financial are awarded on a strictly competitive School and . They a condition of a Queen’s Scholarship 1855. (For further information please assistance. When a full bursary is basis and parental income is not are required by the statutes to attend that the candidate should be willing refer to the section entitled ‘Entry 13+ Exhibitions awarded, it will cover the cost of taken into account. The system of certain Abbey services, and have to be a boarder in College. For at 13+’.) The examinations take place uniform, equipment and compulsory Up to seven Exhibitions (minor bursaries enables Westminster other ceremonial duties to perform election to a Queen’s Scholarship at Westminster School in late April school expeditions. To be eligible for scholarships) may be awarded School to offer free places or places in connection with the Abbey and a candidate for 13+ entry must be or early May. To obtain an application a bursary, a child’s parent(s) must be each year to those Challenge at reduced fees to boys and girls who the Crown. There are 48 Queen’s under 14 years of age on 1 September form, please contact the 13+ a British citizen, or citizens of the EEA candidates, who narrowly miss do well in our entrance examinations Scholars and it is usual for eight of the year of entry and for 16+ entry Admissions Administrator or Switzerland or have permanent being awarded a Scholarship. but whose parents cannot afford the Scholars to be elected every year must be under 17 years of age on the [email protected]. leave to remain AND must also live full fees. for Year 9 entry. Four Queen’s same date. in London. Boarding bursaries are 16+ Queen’s Scholarships Scholarships are awarded every year 13+ Candidates who not awarded. Queen’s Scholarships to girls entering the School in the The monetary value of a Queen’s are not registered To apply for a Queen’s Scholarship, Sixth Form. Since Elizabethan times Scholarship is set at half way girls must select this in the online 11+ Bursaries The Queen’s Scholars are part of Candidates for The Challenge the Queen’s Scholars have resided between 50% of the boarding fee registration form. Four Queen’s Queen Elizabeth I’s Royal Foundation need not have registered for the Westminster wants boys of high in a boarding house known as and the day fee. Scholarships per year are awarded of the College of St Peter, which School, nor hold a place, but in such academic ability whose parents College – the present building dates to girls entering the Sixth Form at 16+, cases a commoner place will not be cannot afford the full fees to be able based on their overall performance offered if a Queen’s Scholarship is to come to the School. In most cases, in the subject papers, interviews and not awarded. such boys will be pupils from state Thinking Skills Assessments. primary schools. A bursary awarded What is College like? to a boy at 11+ will continue until he is Music Scholarships 18, subject, of course, to satisfactory College is a relaxed and friendly Up to eight awards at 13+ and four work and behaviour. boarding house and the Queen’s awards at 16+, worth 10% of the Scholars mix with other pupils, day fee, whether a day pupil or Boys who enter the School at the boarding or day, girl or boy, just like a boarder, including free tuition on 11+ stage spend their first two years everyone else. The Housemaster two instruments, may be awarded (Years 7 and 8) at Westminster Under is Mr Gareth Mann, who also has annually. Auditions are held in late School. To register for 11+ entry and the title of Master of the Queen’s January or early February for 13+ to obtain a bursary application form, Scholars. Every year there is a and in November for 16+. Candidates please contact the Under School’s College Open Evening, which gives for 13+, who do not have to be Registrar on 020 7821 5788 or Challenge candidates and their registered or hold a place, must be [email protected]. parents the opportunity to visit under 14 years of age on 1 September Parents will be asked to complete College and to meet Mr Mann and of the proposed year of entry and an initial financial assessment form the Scholars. We know that some must subsequently qualify for a place before the entrance examination. boys are nervous at the prospect of by sitting either Common Entrance boarding, even though they would or The Challenge. For further go home at weekends. The benefits information, please email the Music of boarding are, of course, the Secretary musicoffice@westminster. forging of deep, lifelong friendships org.uk. Grade 7 standard on the and a unique sense of belonging in candidate’s first instrument a community of learning. We would is usually expected and it is urge them not to dismiss the exciting recommended that a candidate opportunity of becoming a Queen’s should have an informal audition Scholar until they have had a chance with the Director of Music before to see for themselves what life in the formal auditions take place. College is really like. 10

13+ Bursaries • An up-to-date report from Termly Fees an educational psychologist. At this stage bursaries are normally • A letter from the candidate’s The following rates are applicable awarded only to candidates who current school confirming their from September 2018. Fees are already hold bursaries at their normal way of working. subject to annual review by the prep schools. If you would like to Governing Body. apply for a bursary please email the The Governing Body of Westminster Bursar’s office bursar@westminster. School recognises its responsibility Boarders £13,084 per term org.uk to request an initial financial under the Disability Discrimination Queens’ Scholars £7,800 per term assessment form. Once you have Act (1995), which prevents 16+ Day pupils £9,903 per term submitted the form you will be discrimination against disabled 13+ Day pupils £9,058 per term contacted by the Bursar. people in their access to education. Westminster Westminster School’s Policy on Under School £6,448 per term If a boy, who has been awarded Admissions is available in full on our a bursary, subsequently wins website: www.westminster.org.uk. The fees are inclusive and payable a scholarship, the monetary value in advance. Expenses payable of the scholarship will be absorbed retrospectively include book bills, within the bursary. exam fees and any advances Fees charged such as those for private 16+ Bursaries Registration fee tuition, music lessons, etc., which are incurred by parental choice. Parents interested in applying for A non-returnable fee of £160 is a bursary should complete the initial payable for 13+ registration and Accounts are rendered at the end financial assessment form, which £200 for 16+ registration. This fee is is available as part of the online of each term and must be paid for on waived for the sons and daughters or before the first day of the following registration process. The parents of Old Westminsters. of candidates applying for bursaries term in the manner specified on the accounts form. will be invited to meet the Bursar on Entrance fee the post-examination interview day if their son or daughter is called back An entrance fee of 4% of the current The Governing Body cannot for interview. Please note that it is annual day fee is payable on undertake to remit any fees of pupils the policy of the Governing Body that acceptance of an unconditional place. who are absent on account of illness, candidates for bursaries should be or for any other reason, and they draw the attention of parents to resident inside the M25. This fee is refundable only if the the fact that insurance facilities for prep school considers the 13+ covering the risk are available. Special Educational Needs candidate to have failed to demonstrate the expected continued Westminster School has a well- Advance Fees Scheme: good conduct and academic progress established tradition of identifying A scheme exists to enable parents, and is consequently not admitted to and nurturing academic potential grandparents and guardians to the School. in pupils with special educational provide for future school fees by way needs, including dyslexia and of a composite cash payment. There For 16+ candidates, the entrance dyspraxia. If your son or daughter are considerable tax advantages fee is non-refundable. The offer is has been identified as having a to the scheme, details of which may conditional upon candidates obtaining specific learning difficulty, please be obtained from the Finance Bursar, 8 A/7 grades at GCSE/IGCSE, of contact our Study Skills Coordinator Mrs Heather Burgess: heather. which at least 4 are A*/8-9 grades. [email protected]. [email protected]; tel 020 7963 1030. Extra time and/or use of a word The entrance fee is not off-set processor in our entrance against the final term’s fees. Parents examinations at 13+ and 16+ will only of boys who enter Westminster Under be granted if the criteria used for School at the 11+ stage do not have public examinations are met. Our to pay the Entrance Fee. Candidates Study Skills Department will require: who apply for and are awarded a bursary of 100% do not have to pay the entrance fee. 12 13

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Additional information The Challenge 2018 The aim of this section is to provide you with statistics Queen’s Scholarships Honorary Scholarships and lists, which we hope you will find useful as you build The following were elected: Aditya Gupta up a picture of Westminster School. Han-Sen Choong Westminster Under School Heathside School Zackary Lui Alessandro D’Attanasio Westminster Under School Hall School Max Peel You will see that our pupils come from a wide range of schools and that they Westminster Under School go on to study a tremendous variety of courses at leading universities in Britain Dhruv Jajodia and overseas. Westminster Under School Baruch Macgregor Westminster Under School The Challenge 2018 15 Exhibitions Brandon Park Our 13+ feeder schools 2018 16 Westminster Under School Remy Rushbrooke Exam results 17 – 18 Joseph Stern Hall School Akarsh Shankar Leavers’ destinations 2018 19 Westminster Under School Louis Summers Queen Elizabeth’s School Barnet Westminster Under School George Zhou Westminster Under School The Richard Edlin Mathematics Prize Aditya Gupta Westminster Under School 16 17

Our 13+ feeder schools 2018 Exam results

The following schools sent boys to Westminster in 2018 GCSE and IGCSE Westminster Under School 57 Newton Prep 2 In 2018 Westminster pupils sat a mixture of IGCSE and GCSE examinations. The examinations are equivalent and the choice of which specification to follow is made by individual departments on the basis of which provides the best content Arnold House School 2 North Bridge House 1 and assessment for pupils in their particular subject. GCSEs in English, Maths, Geography, RS, Music, Drama, Art, Latin School 1 Papplewick 1 and Greek were graded on the new 1-9 grading system (where grades 9/8 are equivalent to A* and grade 7 to A), while Dulwich Prep London 2 Portsmouth Grammar Junior School 1 all other subjects remained on the A*-G grading system. Durston House 1 Queen Elizabeth’s School Barnet 1 GCSE Eagle House School 1 St Anthony’s 1 No. of (I)GCSE’s taken % of Grades A*/A % of Grade A* % Pass (A*-C) Eaton House The Manor 2 St Olave’s Grammar School 1 2007 1133 92 68 100 2008 1251 96 73 100 Fulham Preparatory School 2 St Paul’s Cathedral School 1 2009 1251 98 82 100 Haberdashers’ Aske’s School 1 St Philip’s 1 2010 1225 96 73 100 Hall School 14 Sussex House 5 2011 1241 98 88 100 2012 1285 97 86 100 Heath Mount School 1 Tanglin Trust School 1 2013 1301 98 86 100 Heathside School 2 1 2014 1318 98 88 100 2015 1239 97 84 100 1 The Mall School 1 2016 1354 98 88 100 Hill House 3 Thomas’s Battersea 2 2017 1224 99 88 100 Lanesborough School 1 Trevor-Roberts’ 2 2018 1274 97 86 100 Lyndhurst House Prep School 1 Twickenham Prep School 1 No. of GCSEs taken % of Grades 9-7 % of Grades 9/8 % of Grade 9 % Pass on 9-1 scale (A*/A equivalent) (A* equivalent) (Grades 9-5) 2017 344 98 87 61 100 Boys who enter our Under School at 11+ come from primary schools across 2018 435 98 91 69 100 London. At 16+ pupils enter Westminster from schools across the whole of Britain, and also from overseas, but many come from London girls’ day schools. A-level and Pre-U At Westminster individual departments are allowed to choose the specifications (A-level or Pre-U) which they believe are the most interesting to teach as well as providing the stretch needed for very able pupils. In the Pre-U examinations subjects are reported on a nine-grade scale reflecting three broad bands of achievement: Distinction 1,2,3; Merit 1,2,3; and Pass 1,2,3. The A-level A* grade is divided into two distinction grades: D1 and D2. The Pre-U D3 grade is equivalent to the A-level A grade. The intention is to differentiate more finely as well as extending reporting at the top end. For more information please look at www.cie.org.uk. A-level The A* Grade was introduced in 2010. No. of A-levels taken % of Grade A* % of Grades A*/A % Pass (A*-B) 2007 774 – 86 98 2008 762 – 92 99 2009 703 – 90 98 2010 565 47 90 98 2011 552 53 91 98 2012 536 49 86 98 2013 532 45 86 97 2014 573 47 81 98 2015 583 49 85 97 2016 570 49 81 96 2017 469 47 81 95 2018 460 48 83 93 18 19

Pre-U No. of Pre-Us taken % of Grades D1/D2 % Distinction % of Grades D/M Leavers’ destinations 2018 2013 218 64 93 100 2014 185 66 93 100 198 pupils left Westminster in 2018. 152 took up places at university. 46 have chosen to go on 2015 173 59 88 100 to Art Foundation courses, other FE opportunities or apply post A-level. 2016 177 75 95 100 2017 265 78 94 100 2018 289 74 95 100 Number of firm places Number of firm places gained at universities in 2018 gained at universities by degree subject A-levels by subject 2018 Bristol 5 Accounting and Finance 1 History and Politics 1 Cambridge 30 Actuarial Science 1 History of Art 4 Subject No. of candidates No. of Grade A* No. of Grade A No. of Grade B Cardiff 1 Architecture 2 Human Sciences 1 Biology 40 25 12 1 Chemistry 36 12 20 2 University of Chicago (USA) 1 Biological Sciences 1 HSPS 1 Drama and Theatre Studies 1 1 0 0 Durham 11 Biomedical Sciences 1 Liberal Arts 17 Economics 59 20 17 10 Edinburgh 4 Business Management and Mathematics 3 Electronics 3 1 2 0 Exeter 4 Modern Languages 1 Medicine 13 Geography 10 10 0 0 History 79 23 38 11 Georgetown 3 Chinese 1 Modern Languages 5 Mathematics 153 84 53 11 Harvard (USA) 1 Classics 8 Natural Sciences 8 Further Mathematics 62 42 16 3 Imperial College London 9 Computer Science 5 Philosophy 1 Music 3 0 1 1 King’s College London 5 Dentistry 1 Philosophy and Psychology 1 14 3 4 4 Leeds 1 Economics based courses 11 Philosophy and Theology 1 London School of Economics 3 Engineering based courses 8 PPE 7 Pre-Us by subject 2018 Manchester 3 English 13 Physics 6 The D1 and D2 grades are both equivalent to an A* at A-level. NYU (USA) 1 Experimental Psychology 1 Psychology 2 Subject No. of candidates No. of Grade D1 No. of Grade D2 No. of Grade D3 No. of Grade M Oxford 32 Geography 4 Religion and Theology 1 Art 18 3 11 4 0 Princeton (USA) 2 History 16 Sociology 2 Art History 16 4 12 0 0 QMUL 1 History with a Language 2 Chemistry 22 15 5 1 1 Classical Greek 11 0 8 3 0 School of the Art English Literature 60 39 13 8 0 Institute of Chicago (USA) 1 French 24 9 9 6 0 Stanford (USA) 1 German 8 2 5 1 0 TCD (Ireland) 2 Latin 23 4 14 5 0 Toronto 1 Philosophy and Theology 27 2 4 13 7 Physics 44 25 11 5 3 UCL 17 Russian 11 5 3 2 1 UCLA (USA) 1 Spanish 25 5 6 12 2 University of Amsterdam 1 University of Hong Kong 2 Upenn 2 Warwick 3 Yale 2 York 3 20

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Governing Body The Dean of Westminster, The Very Reverend Dr John Hall (Chairman) The Dean of Christ Church, The Very Reverend Professor Martyn Percy The Master of Trinity, Sir Gregory Winter CBE, FRS The Reverend Canon Jane Sinclair MA BA The Reverend Canon David Stanton Professor Maggie Dalman OBE Mr Michael Baughan (OW) Mr Christopher Foster (OW) Dr Priscilla Chadwick MA, FRSA Professor Sir Christopher Edwards MD, FRCP, FRCPEd, FRSE, FMedSci, HonDSc Dr Alan Borg, CBE, FSA (OW) Mr Richard Neville-Rolfe MA (OW) Dame Judith Mayhew Jonas DBE Mr Mark Batten (OW) Ms Joanna Reesby Mrs Ina De (OW) Mr Edward Cartwright (OW) Mr Tony Little MA, FRSA Ms Emily Reid (OW)

Secretary to the Governing Body and Bursar Mr Martin Walsh

Head Master Mr Patrick Derham, MA (History)

Leadership Team Under Master: Mr James Kazi MA (English) Deputy Head (Academic): Mr Rodney Harris MA (Geography) Deputy Head (Co-Curriculum): Mr Nick Page BA (Modern Languages) Deputy Head (Boarding and Educational Partnerships): Mr Jeremy Kemball BSc (Biology)

Head of Upper School: Ms Clare Leech MA (Modern Languages) Director of Teaching and Learning: Mr Peter Sharp MA, MSc (Physics) LITTLE DEAN’S Registrar YARD Mr Guy Hopkins, MA (Music) Known to the School just as Yard, Little Dean’s Yard is a private gated area at the heart of the School, within the precincts of the ancient monastery of Westminster. It is a secluded enclave on the original Thorney Island, unsuspected by millions of Londoners who pass nearby between the Houses of Parliament and Victoria. School at age 16. Please contact the the contact Please 16. age at School School at ages 7, 8 and 11. They can can 7, They ages 11. at 8and School Boys may enter Westminster Under enter Westminster School at 13 and both boys and girls may enter the the enter may girls and boys both [email protected] Registered number: 312728 charity Registrar for more information. WESTMINSTER SCHOOL LITTLE DEAN’S YARD DEAN’S LITTLE LONDON SW1P 3PF SW1P LONDON Westminster THE REGISTRAR THE Starting at at Starting 020 7963 1003 1003 020 7963

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