Annual Review 2015 -16 For over 450 years, HIGHLIGHTS OF 2015-2016 Hampton School has been helping Hamptonians once again achieved outstanding success in 2015-16 across the full range of academic and co-curricular activities. boys to fulfil their potential and The School year began with marvellous news of record public Alongside these excellent sporting, musical and theatrical realise their aspirations. examination grades achieved at A Level, Pre-U and GCSE. activities, hundreds of Hampton boys have continued to Twenty six Oxbridge places were confirmed and almost all show enormous commitment to the Duke of Edinburgh’s of our Upper Sixth leavers earned places at Russell Group Award scheme, the CCF, Adventure Society expeditions, or equivalent universities, to read for a very broad range of entrepreneurship courses, and our flourishing Community degrees. This set an inspiring tone for the subsequent academic Service programme and Form Charity fundraising events. feats of 2015 – 2016, displayed in the following pages. Our visitors from the Independent Schools Inspectorate (ISI) Outside the classroom, Hampton’s longstanding reputation in March 2016 concluded that Hampton’s academic and all- as one of the country’s pre-eminent sporting schools was round excellence merited the rarely-awarded ISI assessment enhanced. A total of 36 Football and Rugby teams enabled that pupils’ achievements and learning are ‘Exceptional’. over 600 boys to represent the School regularly in these two No-one fortunate enough to spend time with our boys would sports alone. The 1st XV Rugby squad won the prestigious be surprised by this, but it is equally important to us that the St Joseph’s National Schools’ Festival trophy and reached the pursuit of success is approached in a proportionate, caring and quarter-final stage of the NatWest Cup. The U13s reached their balanced way. Our boys are supremely talented and they are own national semi-final. In Football, the 1st and 2nd XIs both rightly ambitious, but they also enjoy happy School lives and won their respective Trinity Cups; the U15A squad reached the support one another in generous-spirited fashion; they treat ISFA Cup semi-final; and seven boys were selected for ISFA people with respect and on their merits, inside and outside the national representative sides. Our U14 cricketers won the School; they will go on to lead and serve with discernment, Middlesex Cup and a dozen boys played for their county sides. kindness and cheerful resilience in many fields. On the water, three Hamptonians won international colours for Great Britain and our crews won sixteen events across eight It remains an enormous joy and privilege to be Headmaster summer regattas, including the J16 Championship VIIIs final of of this truly magnificent School. the National Schools’ event held at .

The cultural life of the School continues to be extremely strong, enthusiastically supported and richly varied. Among the many superb dramatic and musical performances were the musical Mack and Mabel (in conjunction with The Lady Eleanor Holles School), a compelling production of Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar and a great Kevin Knibbs MA (Oxon) number of concerts across all musical genres. Our celebrated Headmaster and enduringly popular male voice choir, Voices of Lions, reached the national selection stage of the Choir of the Year Competition. Upper Sixth GCE Advanced Level (206 pupils) Upper Sixth GCE AS Level (206 pupils) as at 9 November 2016 as at 9 November 2016

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