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Executive Head’s Assembly

In Monday’s assembly, we reflected on different faiths and beliefs and how each religion has their own special

celebrations. I know some of you will have enjoyed family events last weekend to mark Nowruz and we learnt

how this is held at the spring equinox, the day when the sun’s light strikes the Equator directly and illuminates

every continent equally in the Northern and Southern hemispheres. In Farsi, the Persian language, Nowruz

means ‘new year’ and this event has been observed around the world for more than 3000 years.

We considered events in the Hindu calendar where the colourful festival of Holi is approaching and stories of

Vishnu and of Krishna are shared.

In the Christian calendar, we look forward to Easter and we were delighted to welcome Reverend Helen

Hancock from St Matthew’s Church, just round the corner from our school, who told the boys the Easter story.

Tuesday marked a year since the first lockdown and we paused to consider all that has happened in that time.

There has been sadness and challenge but there has also been resilience, compassion and many

demonstrations of love and support. The boys were invited to share their thoughts and their observations

ranged from the increased family meals and board games played with siblings to the rapid developments in

medicine and science in response to the pandemic.

Today, on the final day of term, we celebrated many of the successes and achievements of the boys over the

spring term. I am delighted to share the award winners throughout this Newsletter.

Hardy Plus and Minus Shield

1st Nelson 79.628

2nd Drake 79.373

3rd Grenville 77.602

4th Raleigh 76.605

Music Colours: Conrad Lai, Year 7.

Wednesday 24th

March 2021

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Senior Musicians Prizes

Thomas Byrne, Year 6, Robert Richards, Year 7 and George Day, Year 8.

Year 8 World Book Day Certificates for reading to children from the Pre-Preps

James Bell, Eric Chen, Otis Clark, Louis Deverill, George Day, Harry Duffy, Milo Hamilton-Raimondi, Otto

Hamilton-Raimondi, Henry Hulme, Oliver Hussey, Alfie Mitchell, Freddie Mundell and Freddie Wolff.

Drama Awards

Many boys were presented with certificates in their year group meetings on Tuesday for consistent effort,

focus and positive contributions in Drama this term. The overall winners from each class are listed below:

Year 3 - Ishaan Devesher, Caspar Hart, William Ross and Thomas Sealey. Year 5 - Gethin Davies, Ben Ellis, Taysir Sharaf and Max Snead. Year 6 - Jaeden Ford, Ruairidh Macgregor Watson, Archie Rae and Tom Saunders. A full list boys’ awards will be listed in the spring term Alta Peto.

Head of Year Commendations

Year 3 Maximiliano Laurence - for a superb start to SHS.

Ishaan Devesher - for being a fabulous role model to his peers.

Henry Kirkwood - for consistently demonstrating good behaviour in class and a kind attitude to all.

Caspar Hart - for going above and beyond to make others feel included.

Aiyan Sheth - for showing great kindness to the other boys in his class.

Charlie Dove - for his enthusiasm and dedication to learning the trumpet.

Year 4

Ethan Luo - for his beautifully detailed Rainforest poster.

Fin Conway - for his positive attitude in maths and for trying really hard.

Rafe Ramanandi - for his engagement and attitude in maths lessons during Remote Learning.

Charles Brain, Ollie Campbell and Oliver Hill, Yigit Pazarceviren, Kevin Ruo, William Sayers and Jack Wright -

for their efforts in Games sessions during Remote Learning.

George Russell - commended for showing kindness to those around him and for being a Year 4 Kindness

Ambassador.

Charlie Love - commended for showing kindness to those around him and for being a Year 4 Kindness

Ambassador.

Year 5

Sam Gates-Sumner - For great engagement and attitude in Maths during online learning.

Ludo Hart - For a superb work ethic in his Geography this term.

Daniel Hayward - For being diligent and participating with enthusiasm in Maths lessons this term.

Hari Kapur - For showing increased confidence, including asking and answering questions more confidently

than ever.

Jacob Jenkinson - For outstanding effort and a generally more enthusiastic attitude this term.

Ashwin Sewell - For super work ethic in creating an excellent presentation on the Salvation Army in TPR.

Luca Tobler Borsting - For super work ethic in creating an excellent presentation on the Salvation Army in TPR.

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Year 6 Charles Sinclair - for going above and beyond with his studies during online learning. Luke Adams - for excellent focus and attitude in History. Brannon Woods - for his consistent contribution to Music with a fantastic attitude. Josh Barlow - for his positive and determined approach in French. Josh Lyons - for his effort and determination in developing his French writing skills. JJ Agarwal - for his enthusiastic and consistent contribution in Science. Walter Zhang - for his positive attitude and engagement upon our return to school. Year 7

Saahir Kapoor – for mature approach to his studies both online and back in school.

Robert Richards – for his all-round consistency in his academic and non-academic subjects.

Ernie Hill – for a fantastic gothic diorama in English.

Riley Osborne – for his all-round consistency in his academic and non-academic subjects.

Year 8

Daniel Adams - for his commitment and application in his PE lessons.

Otto Hamilton-Raimondi - for his impressive focus and effort in Maths.

Plus Prizes

Congratulations to the following boy who has received his fourth plus prize:

Grenville: Ollie Campbell

Congratulations to the following boys who have received their third plus prizes:

Drake: Jaeden Ford, Ben Huang, William McNamara, Charlie Moffatt, Robin Moggs, Simon Morris and Amar

Shah

Grenville: Cameron Bell and Avik Gaglani

Nelson: Alexander Das Wermes, Ayaz Dikmen, Charlie Fox, Pip Mitchell and Hugo Rikkerink

Raleigh: Ishaan Devesher, Alexander Heath, Riley Osborne and Leo Ridge

Congratulations to the following boys who have received their second plus prizes:

Drake: Theo Broby, Joshua Brown, Yacine El Bachir, Patrick Grey, Milo Hamilton-Raimondi, Sam Hazell, Zach

Hitchins, Aarav Patel, Oscar Sharp and Charlie Wilson-Papps

Grenville: Oscar Bech, Jasper Boulanger, Myles Dickinson, Daniel Haywood, Charlie Linton, Leo Lombardi,

Conor Lloyd, Toby McIlroy, Philip Mikkelsen, Jimmy Sinclair, Michael Tribelhorn, Freddie Wolff and Alexander

Woodford

Nelson: Luke Adams, Sacha Bali, Lorenzo Brodsky, Ben Clarke, Patrick Denham, Freddie Fox, Sam Gates-

Sumner, Thomas Hill, Anthony Howard, Chien Jui Liu, Rafferty Maclarnon, Hassan Sheikh, Eli Spencer, Wilhelm

von Danwitz and Brannon Woods

Raleigh: Joseph Badenoch, Alexander Curle, Tobias Dent, Leo Foulger, Reuben Galaun, James Kett, Luke

Lobban, Alex Morawitz, Benji Mudry, Victor Mudry, Archie Rae, Joshua Ripley, George Russell, Hiro Setterfield,

Benjamin Stone, Arthur Tolson and Charlie Vignon

Congratulations to the following boy who has received his first plus prize:

Raleigh: Beau Parkins

House Scores:

Drake: 72.06 Nelson: 72.00 Grenville: 70.56 Raleigh: 69.34

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Poetry Recital Competition by Mrs Cross, Head of English

On a beautiful spring afternoon on Tuesday 23rd March, boys from Year 3 to Year 8 recited a fantastic variety

of poems from Shel Siverstein to Lewis Carroll to Ted Hughes. This year, the boys from Years 6, 7 and 8 were

also welcome to recite song lyrics as poetry from everyday life that speaks to its audience. It was a joy to see

the likes of Shakira performed next to Maya Angelou adding to a really eclectic and exciting competition. Our

adjudicators were Mr Greenwood as Head of Classics, and Mrs Le Grice, who we welcomed as representative

from our governors. They did a brilliant job choosing our winners in what was a very a difficult decision. As

they made their decisions, we were treated to music by Ethan Luo, Joe Hackshall and George Day.

A massive well done to all of finalists especially our

junior winner, Elijah Spencer, our middle winner,

Gethin Davies, and our senior winner, Zachary

Elliott.

The English teachers have been simply blown away by

the quality of the performances from all year groups

this year and we thoroughly enjoyed the competition

at every stage. Well done to each and every boy that

took part.

Sports Report by Mr Davison, Director of Sport

House Rugby

The House Rugby event passed so successfully this week, in many ways the touch-tackle format worked really

well, creating a more inclusive feel to the competition. Regular readers will know the central position that

values, and the development thereof, sits within our delivery and programme. In House Rugby this comes to

the fore with the House Values competition, celebrated with the awarding of the Edwards Values Cup. Each

team in every match is awarded a values score based on the core rugby values of teamwork, respect,

enjoyment, discipline and sportsmanship. Wonderful to formally recognise these vital traits within our boys.

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House Rugby Cup – Raleigh Edwards Values Cup – Nelson

House Run

At the time of writing the brave young souls of SHS are committing lap after lap of the all-weather surface in

the House (sponsored) Run. This is one of our favourite events – fully inclusive, pure effort, House competition

and in support of worthy causes. This year sees the SHS community supporting both the NHS and Mind

Kingston (THANK YOU!). Long distance running takes courage – buckets of that in evidence today!

The Cock House Cup will be awarded at the beginning of the summer term so the results of today’s Sponsored

Run can be included in the overall result.

Target Shooting

Target shooting is supported at SHS in our ever (and increasingly) popular after-school club run by the expert

Target Shooting School. Those boys lucky and dedicated enough to participate regularly compete in

competition - primarily the British Sporter League. Congratulations to the following boys who won medals in

various divisions:

British Sporter League 6-Yard Supported: Magnus Hansen, Hector Thom, Marcus Santinon, Sam Cruise, Zane Galaun, Ollie Norris. 6-Yard Sitting: William Moore and Riley Osborne. Team of the Week (Junior)

Joshua Brown, Robert Copeland, Sam Cruise, William Dennis, Ben Ellis, Charlie Fox, Oscar Freeman, William

Frost, Wilfred Heilpern, Charlie Love, Pip Mitchell, Ruaridh Dunsire Moore, Luca Hazell, Toprak Kurtulus,

Joshua Ripley, Robert Robinson, William Ross, Hassan Sheikh, Luca Tobler Borsting and Wilhelm von Danwitz.

Team of the Week

Rafael Aram, Eric Chen, Otis Clark, Zachary Elliot, Luca Foenander, Freddie Fox, Henry Hulme, Stein

Mackintosh, Charlie Moffatt, Henry McNamara, Archie Rae, Jasper Robinson, Arun Stewart, Jax Winterbottom

and Louis Wood.

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Green Laces Initiative by Mr Leek, Head of Rugby

The green laces initiative is to recognize boys who have demonstrated the core values of rugby on or off the

playing field here at school.

The key 5 core values are: Teamwork, Respect, Enjoyment, Discipline and Sportsmanship.

Congratulations to the following boys:

Year 3- Thomas Sealey and Sam Hackshall

Year 4 - Jack Wright and Fin Conway

Year 5 - Leo Lombardi and Joseph Badenoch

Year 6 - Henry Heilpern and Charlie Vigion

Year 7 - Conor Lloyd and Digby Heilpern

Year 8 - Ethan Koller and Oliver Forbes

River Model Competition by Miss Mallory, Head of Geography

Year 6 were tasked with producing a model showing the changes in a river, its processes and landforms as it

flows from source to mouth. The boys displayed some incredible innovative ideas and the voting was very

challenging. Entries ranged from fully functioning flowing rivers with sound effects to a creation entirely made

of cake!

Well done to all the boys who participated and demonstrated such a huge effort in creating some fantastic

fluvial creations.

Luke Williams and Alexander Senny – Joint Winners

Theo O’Donnell – 2nd Place

Amar Shah and Myles Dickinson – 3rd place

Special Innovation Prizes go to Robin Moggs for his 3D virtual model, Troy Pepper who wrote a story to

accompany is model and Zach Patel for his flowing river.

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Year 5 Concert

On Monday morning the Year 5 boys recorded their concert, showcasing their considerable talents. There was

a wide array of instruments on show, ranging from the saxophone and piano to the harp, as well as some

wonderful singing. We look forward to sending the Year 5 concert video link very soon.

Design and Technology Awards

Congratulations to the following boys who received a Certificate of Excellence for successfully completing their

Design Technology work to a high standard.

Year 4 - Oscar Bech, Harry Bunce and Jack Dickinson created excellent Viking ships.

Year 7 and 8 – Zachary Elliott, Ralph Moggs, Riley Osborne, Anton Stepanek, Caspar Maxwell Randeria,

Leo Ridge and Benjamin Stone were awarded their Certificates in Excellence from a combination of work

including designing an NHS uniform, phone stand and producing some amazing prospective drawings.

Townsend-Warner History Competition by Mr Smart, Head of History

Many congratulations to the following boys for joining 8S and 7S and volunteering to enter the Townsend-

Warner History Competition:

Alfie Mitchell, Year 8

Freddie von Kaltenborn and Ben Stone, Year 7

Theo Broby, Year 6

There were 31 boys in total who entered the competition.

Have a wonderful Easter break.

Joanna Hubbard

Executive Head