REGISTERED CHARITY NO: 1139000 www.winchestercollege.org INVESTING IN THE FUTURE Annual Report 2012 In this year’s report the scholarly, educational, charitable, artistic and spiritual traditions of the School are appraised in five stories that add a personal dimension to the ambitions and aspirations of Winchester. 02 Winchester College A message from the Warden College Street Sir David Clementi Winchester Hampshire 04 SO23 9NA A message from the Headmaster Dr Ralph Townsend Tel: +44 (0)1962 621100 Fax: +44 (0)1962 621106 06 www.winchestercollege.org A message from the Bursar Jeff Hynam Winchester College Society 09 Development Office Investing in the Future: 17 College Street Close friendships, far horizons Winchester Hampshire James Lamont SO23 9LX 12 An ingrained love of Winchester Tel: +44 (0)1962 621217 Email: [email protected] Michael Nevin www.wincollsoc.org 16 London boys’ club returns home Guy Davison 20 From Itchen canal to Olympic glory George Nash 24 Magnificat anima mea Dominum Jasper Wigley 28 Unearthing the College’s hidden treasures Rachel Wragg 32 A report from the Chairman of the Finance Committee Charles Sinclair 34 Summary statement of financial activities 35 Summary balance sheet 36 A report from the Chairman of the Wykeham Campaign Committee Richard Morse Design 38 Contagious Acknowledgements: www.contagious.co.uk Donations and Legacies Lorna Stoddart & David Fellowes Photography Kin Ho 48 www. kinho.com Governing Body and Committees Special thanks to James Lamont Michael Nevin Guy Davison Cover image: George Nash George Nash training on the Thames, Jasper Wigley December 2012 Rachel Wragg WELCOME TO THE ANNUAL REPORT OF WINCHESTER COLLEGE In this edition James Lamont, OW and Managing Editor of the Financial Times, has drawn together material that presents the spectrum of the School’s success. The Bursar, the Chairman of the Finance Committee of the Governing Body and the Chairman of the Wykeham Campaign report on the School’s finances and fundraising from three different perspectives. The bulk of the report presents a range of Winchester personalities: Michael Nevin, OW don recently retired; George Nash, OW Olympian; Guy Davison, OW Chairman of the Crown and Manor Club; and Jasper Wigley, Head Quirister. Rachel Wragg, our Museum Development Manager, reports on the several benefits that will be afforded by the School’s new museum. The Warden surveys the School’s charitable activities and the Headmaster describes an aspect of Winchester Div, the School’s unique course designed to maintain depth and breadth amidst the restrictions of the national curriculum and public- examination requirements. 1 A MESSAGE FROM THE WardEN Sir David Clementi (E, 1962-67) Warden 2 I am happy to report that 2012 has been a good We have also established a link with year for Winchester. The School is full, registrations are running at a record level, our academic standards remain three primary schools in the Lambeth excellent judged by the high percentage of boys who LEA, with a Winchester don going go to the best universities (increasingly now including weekly to engage in this work. the leading universities on the East Coast of the United States), music continues to flourish on a daily basis at a wonderfully high level, and we have had our fair share of success on the sports field. In addition to the care of the 690 boys who fill the School, we also take a keen interest in our public In the same vein we have entered into a partnership benefit charitable responsibilities which extend beyond with Fudan University High School in Shanghai, making our immediate campus. Our main external project is an important contribution to fostering connections our partnership with Midhurst Rother, an Academy in between the best schools in the West and those in China. West Sussex. This partnership was established in 2008. Our outreach relationships ensure that we are playing Winchester’s engagement has been intense and we provide our part in developing best practice in the education of the backbone of governance for the school. We send able children; we certainly believe that we have a lot dons to stimulate quality of teaching and aspiration. We to contribute, not least in the distinctive features of a receive a group of about twenty twelve-year-olds for ten Winchester education, and there is also much we can consecutive Saturdays of the year to give them teaching learn from other countries. in Div and other subjects in order to promote ambition and confidence. A school which was in Special Measures Returning to our home patch, we continue the drive in 2007 has raised its GCSE results over the last few that we started some years ago to increase significantly the years to exceed all the national objectives in the 2012 amount of funds we are able to make available for bursaries examinations. The next stage of our partnership will focus for parents who would not otherwise be able to afford on retention of pupils in the Sixth Form, continuing the to send their sons to Winchester. We have been helped improvement of the academic culture and expanding the in this by the significant increase in the importance of extra-curricular programme. funds coming from the Goddard Legacy Society. We are now giving means-tested bursarial support to 74 boys, in We have also established a link with three primary excess of ten per cent of our number. This drive is partly schools in the Lambeth LEA, with a Winchester don about the number of bursaries we are able to award; it going weekly to engage in this work. This has led to is also critically about the level at which we are able to one boy coming to Winchester on a full bursary and start providing assistance. We would also like to attract we hope others will follow. boys whose families come from traditional Wykehamist Of much longer standing has been our association backgrounds, such as medicine, teaching and the civil with the Crown and Manor Club in North London. The service, where the fees of independent boarding schools School has sent a don to the club once a week to assist are very difficult to meet out of earned income. boys with their homework and preparation for university In the pages which follow you can read about different applications; and this work is extended by electronic aspects of life at the School: from Winchester’s relationship remote tuition. There is one boy from Crown and with the Crown and Manor Club to the life of a modern Manor currently in the School on a full bursary. Quirister. The Report also includes an interview with We have also over the past few years taken a number George Nash, who deserves our congratulations for of initiatives to extend the distinctive nature of our the Olympic Medal he won rowing at the London educational outlook to a wider community abroad. The 2012 Olympics. most important initiative has been the setting up of the I hope you will find the Report interesting. It certainly Winchester International Symposium which we initiated provides an opportunity for me to pass on the Governing in 2010; it involves ten international schools committed to Body’s thanks to the many people – our teaching and high levels of educational achievement. The Symposium non-teaching staff, of course, but also our parents and our has its own website (see https://sites.google.com/a/ growing number of generous supporters – who contribute montgomerybell.edu/the-international-symposium/), to the vibrancy of life at Winchester. so you can read more about it there. WINCHESTER COLLEGE ANNUAL REPORT 2012 3 A MESSAGE FROM THE HEadMASTER Dr Ralph Townsend Headmaster 4 We encourage a broad approach to learning for It is difficult to imagine any Art life; a co-operative sense which develops a willingness and enthusiasm to learn. Winchester Div has been the History prize, let alone one confined hallmark of the School’s approach to wide and cultured to a single school, having a more learning for over a hundred years. It was introduced into eminent list of adjudicators over the the Winchester curriculum by Headmaster Burge in the early years of the twentieth century. Div has inevitably years. Ms Colette Clark, Kenneth undergone reform and adjustment from time to time, Clark’s daughter, is a great supporter but it remains the heart of the School’s intellectual culture of the Prize and has attended all but and a unique educational feature. Dons still aspire to take a VI Book Div. one of the Finals. A prominent feature of Div in its current dispensation is its focus on the theme of visual literacy and awareness. During Common Time each year Div conversation is permeated by talk of art and architecture. Kenneth Clark with eight different schools represented. As it happened, (B, 1917-22) dominated connoisseurship in the British Tom Davenport (E, 2002-07), who had won the second art establishment for much of the twentieth century, Kenneth Clark Prize, won the inaugural ARTiculation achieving international celebrity in his BBC television Prize with his talk on Caravaggio’s Deposition. It has series Civilisation in the 1970s. The Kenneth Clark Prize been and remains the policy that the adjudicators do not was introduced as an element of Div in 2005. This entails know which school the speakers come from until after every member of VI Book giving a ten minute illustrated the adjudication. Since then ARTiculation has become talk on a work of art, architecture or applied art to his a national competition with eight regional heats held in Div. Depending on the interests of the speaker, emphasis some of the finest museums and galleries in the UK, and is given to particular aspects.