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Issue 294 25 April 2014Wilson’s Update

Dates for your Diary

28 April Young Musician of the Year Final (7.00 p.m.)28 April Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)28 April Prayer Group (8.00 p.m.) - all parents welcome30 April Composers’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)1 May Junior Maths Challenge1 May Year 7 Parents’ Evening (4.00 p.m.)

2 MaY PFA Year 9 Cake Sale (after school)

3 May CCF Junior Range Weekend5 May BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY8 May Wilson’s Got Talent (lunchtime)9 May Y11 and Y12 Study Leave Begins

On the last day of term before the Easter break, the school celebrat-ed Founder’s Day with a special service in the main hall. Musical items included brass fanfares composed by Robert Cochrane and Old Wilsonian Sam Leggett, and a flute piece by Bach played by Daniel Jacob-Ormson. The Head gave an inspiring address about the move from Camberwell to Sutton and Mr Lissimore pondered with us the meaning of the school hymn. Proceedings were given a real flourish with a dazzling rifle drill performed by the CCF.

It is now 399 years since Edward Wilson, vicar of Camberwell, set up his grammar school for the poor boys of his parish. Plans are already being made for next year’s quatercentenary, which will be an epoch-defining moment in the history of the school.

FOUNDER’S DAY - 4 APRIL 2014

Issue 294 25 April 2014

WILSON’S GOT TALENT - COMING SOON.......... If you want to take part please see Mrs Gill in F4 at lunchtimes either Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday next week.

OVERDUE LIBRARY BOOKSJust a reminder to all boys that there are quite a few library books that were due back before the Easter holidays that have not yet been returned and there are a lot more that will become overdue this Friday (25 April).

We have 5 boxes of brand new books all ready to be loaned to students but we need the ooverdue books back before putting the new books out. Please make a big effort this week so that the new books can be put on display soon!

House Points have now been allocated to those of you who do-nated books last term. Adam Parke in 13B received a £10 Amazon voucher as he brought in so many fantastic books but we are very grateful to all of you who made the effort.Mrs Cowell (Librarian)

IF YOU WENT ON THE TURKEY TRIP OVER HALF -TERM, READ ONFor all participants in the Turkey trip, send your photos of interest-ing and important scenes to Mr Lawson, who will judge the best ones for inclusion in the next newsletter and for display. The best photos will be awarded a prize, likely to be edible – chocolate in fact.

NOTICES

Mr Englefield completed the London Marathon in a very impressive time of 03:45:37 – 5 minutes quicker than he managed in 2004. However he was just beaten to the finish line by retired England footballer Michael Owen!

He would like to thank all of the staff, students and parents for helping him raise £3566.02 for the Lily Foundation.

MARATHON NEWS

It is vital that students write clearly and accurately in all their subjects (all students are welcome at handwriting club on Tuesday lunch times). With examinations fast approaching, now is a good time to be reminded of some common errors to avoid.

This week: ‘Practice’ or ‘practise’?

The noun is spelled with a ‘c’ (Have you done your piano practice?’) and the verb with an ‘s’ (‘I am going to practise the piano this evening’). This is the same for the words ‘licence’ (noun) and ‘license’ (verb).

HOW TO AVOID SOME COMMON MISTAKES IN WRITTEN ENGLISH

We are currently collecting “Active Kids 2014” vouchers from Sainsbury’s. These vouchers can be exchanged for sports equipment and we are hoping that if we collect sufficient vouchers we will be able to order:

Footballs, Cricket bats and balls, Basketballs, Table-tennis bats and balls, Badminton rackets and shuttlecocks, Tennis rackets and balls,Athletics equipment and Volleyballs

Our target is to collect 25,000 vouchers (our record was collecting 34,000 in 2009) so if you shop at Sainsbury’s please don’t forget to ask for your Active Kids vouchers (one for every £10 spent) and lets see if together we can collect enough to give the school as much of the equip-ment above as possible.

Please note vouchers are only being issued until 21 May this year. There is a collection box on reception for you and/or your son to put your vouchers in. Many thanks for your support.

SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS


CLUBS AND ACTIVITIES

CLASSICS CLUBTakes place on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in Room 5 (with free chocolate), or come earlier and eat lunch there. Volunteers to talk about anything vaguely Classical, perhaps to give a slide-show or show a video as well are most welcome. See Mr Lawson in Room 5.

Anyone needing help with Latin or Classics should go to Room 5 on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes for the general Latin help club.

CHESS CLUBAll pupils are welcome to attend the lunchtime club (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday). Those who aspire to play chess for the school are encouraged to also attend on Wednesday after school from 3.30 to 5.00 p.m. In all cases the meetings are in F12 in the Maths Department, and further information can be obtained from Dr Cooper: ([email protected])

MATHS CHALLENGE CLUBThis club is for anyone in years 8 - 13 who enjoys the challenge of tough maths problems to solve. For the summer term maths challenge club is run for pupils in years 7 to 10. It will include look-ing at past Junior Maths Challenge and Olympiad questions, as well as interesting games and puzzles. The club takes place on Wednesday lunchtimes in F12.

MANDARIN CLUBMandarin club has started again on Wednesdays after school in Room 14.

DEBATE CLUBDebate club runs every Monday lunchtime in Room 16. Please see Mrs Guy with any questions.

BUSINESS STUDIES & ECONOMICS CLUBAvailable every Wednesday lunchtime (13.05 -14.00) for advice and help on how to improve your subject knowledge or exam technique in Business Studies and Economics. You may need help with homework or simply a quiet place to study where assistance is conveniently on hand. See Mr Ormonde in 6F3. No topic too ‘big’ or ‘small’!

COMPUTER CLUBSYear 10 and 11 coursework on Monday in F4 with Mrs GillYear 7 drop in Mondays C2 Mr WallaceScratch club for Year 7s on Tuesday in F5 with Mr Poole.A Level computing and AS ICT can use the following room at lunch-time (1.15 - 1.50) to do their coursework:Monday F4 Mrs GillTuesday F5 Mrs Gill or Mr WallaceWednesday F4 Mrs Gill

NEW WILSON’S GeogSocAre you interested in all things Geographical? If so, then this is the place for you! Run by the Lower Sixth, every Tuesday Week A we will be exploring different geographical ideas from 1315 to 1350 in Room 24. Please come along to Rm 24 with your lunch every Tues-day, see you there!

HOTT CLUBHordes of the Things club meets in room 5 every Friday; miniatures war gaming with simple rules. Armies and advice provided (if want-ed). Terrain boards available. Possibility of a large multi-command battle in the future if enough interest is shown.

HANDWRITING CLUB IS BACK!Don’t let your handwriting get in the way of achieving good grades! If teachers struggle to read your handwriting, then examiners will too. It’s not too late to improve your handwriting!Come to handwriting club on Tuesday lunch times, in room 10, with Miss Lambert.

Congratulations to last edition’s winner, Varun Jain, 7H who correctly identified the image as Old Faithful Geyser in Yellowstone National Park, USA, North America. Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s competition:

On to this week’s competition! Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins! Get thinking.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK SUPPORT - 1.10 - 1.50 P.M.

Wed A: C1 Fri A: C1 Mon B: C1 Thurs B: C1

GEOGRAPHY COMPETITION - WHERE IN THE WORLD IS THIS?


NEXT PFA CAR BOOT SALEOn Sunday 11 May the PFA are holding their next Car Boot Sale. Gates open at 8:15 for buyers and entry is just £1 (50p for un-der-16’s). There will be a wide range of stalls selling old books, music, antiques and more, as well as refreshments and cakes baked by the PFA.

If you are interested in selling at the Car Boot Sale a plot costs £10 and there’s no need to prebook. You can find out more information on the new website (http://www.wilsonsschool.sutton.sch.uk/information/carboot/index.html) or by emailing [email protected].

Car Boot Sale VolunteersCan you give us just one hour of your time at one of the five car boot sales we’re holding this summer? The PFA need volunteers to help greet sellers and buyers and sell refreshments. You don’t need any previous experience and you can stay and shop after you’re finished. Please contact Sacha Marsac ([email protected] / 020 8773 2931 x. 168) if you would like to find out more.

2014 Car Boot Sale Dates- Sunday 11 May- Sunday 1 June- Sunday 20 July- Sunday 14 September- Sunday 12 October

PFA NEWS

On Wednesday Wilson’s played the Old Wilsonians at rugby for the first ever time, with the Old Boys scoring in the last minutes to win 24-29.

The Old Wilsonians started with a good spell of possession but couldn’t make it count and Mr Chappell carried the ball over the line for the school for the first score of the match. Wilson’s soon went 12-0 ahead thanks to a Nick Gikas try before Nathan Okusi powered through the line to get the first points on the board for the Old Wilsonians. As the two teams settled in to the game the quality lifted and by half time the scores stood at 19-17.

After a quick switch of ends Dylan Craig scored and suddenly the Old Boys were ahead 19-22. In the second half both teams tired, which opened up space all over the pitch and Chris Mallet went on a superb winding run that sadly didn’t end with points on the board for Wilson’s. Soon afterwards though the school found more space behind the Old Boys’ line and Mr Chappell sped into it and was just able to control the ball, putting the school back in the driving seat: 24-22.

Going in to the last ten minutes of the match the school were just ahead and it looked like they might hold on. Sadly it wasn’t to be, as the Old Boys shoved over the line and the referee judged that Adam Vallance had grounded the ball. With the conversion successfully tucked away the Old Boys had some daylight and were just able to see the match out, finishing 24-29 winners.

Congratulations to all of the boys who played for the school. It was a highly competitive game and they had chances to win, but just ran out of time in the end. Thanks to Mr Chappell, Mr Clark and Mr Dicker who all pulled on the school jerseys and thanks to all of the Old Wilsonians who came back to the school to play. As rugby takes off at Wilson’s this will become a regular annual fixture, so keep an eye out for next year’s fixture.

To read a full match report please head to www.wilsonsalumni.org.uk, where you can also see photographs from the game.

WILSON’S VS. OLD WILSONIANS RUGBY MATCH


1st prize £77.50 Susan Gauge2nd prize £46.50 Richard Spaull3rd prize £31.00 Manjeet Lundh

Congratulations to our prize winners this month.

If you would like to join the 100 club with the possibility of winning a prize each month you can obtain an application form by emailing the PFA: [email protected] or see Wilson’s website under PFA.

APRIL PFA 100 CLUB DRAW WINNERS

SPORTS NEWS

For up to date PE news, events and sporting fixtures follow @WilsonsPE on twitter.

Non Sibi Sed Omnibus

CRICKET FIXTURES

Saturday 26 April - Wilson’s vs. WhitgiftU14A HomeU14B HomeU15A Home1st XI Away

Monday 28 April - Wilson’s vs. Wallington Boys’U15A HomeU15B Home

Tuesday 29 April - Wilson’s vs. KCS WimbledonU12D HomeU12E HomeU12A AwayU12B AwayU12C AwayU12D AwayU13A AwayU13B AwayU13C Away

Wednesday 30 April - Wilson’s vs. Wallington Boys’1st XI Home2nd XI Away

Friday 2 May - Wilson’s vs. John FisherU12A HomeU12B Home

BADMINTON NEWS

A fantastic result by both teams to reach this year’s National schools’ badminton competition semi-final.

Over 2500 schools started in the competition but only 6 play in the Final.

The U.14 team won all of their matches comfortably to reach the final and should be in with a chance of a medal this year. Strong performances by all players saw Wilson’s through and in particular from Zhi Ping Lim who played at number 1 in all the matches .

The U.16 team had a tough competition and lost their final match 2-3 which meant that they missed out on the final on the strength of one game where they lost by one point. This was hard to take, but this is a team which has performed at their best to reach the semi-final and did remarkably well this year in all matches.

The final will be played in Nottingham on 10 May and we wish the boys every success.

Issue 295 2 May 2014Wilson’s Update


2 May CCF Junior Range Weekend (leaves after school) 5 May BANK HOLIDAY MONDAY8 May Wilson’s Got Talent (lunchtime)9 May Y11 and Y12 Study Leave Begins12 May Public Exams begin16 May Y9 Geography Fieldtrip (Herne Bay)

16 May PFA Pop Up Restaurant and Wine Tasting Evening

21 May Junior Musicians’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)26 - 30 May HALF-TERM9 June Y12 return to school9 June Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop9 June Prayer Group Meeting (8.00 p.m.) all parents welcome11 June Pianists’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)26 June Open Evening27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y13

On Monday of this week, the House Music Grand Finale took place and it was an amazing evening of music. The guest adjudicator, Mr Matthew Scrivener (Leader of the English National Ballet Orchestra), commented that he was amazed at the standard of the boys, many of whom he said were virtually at a professional standard, and found it really difficult to choose between the performers. In the end he decided on the following results:

Junior (Year 7-9):1st: Isuru Jayasekera, 9B2nd: Gautam Vyas, 9C3rd: Samuel Smith, 8BHighly Commended: Sajurran Raguseelan, 9C and Peter Wales, 7H

Senior (Year 10-13):1st: Michael Ahearn, 11C2nd: Oliver De Carteret, L6 and Timothy Cheng, 11B3rd: Harry Perkin, L6 and Daniel Jacob-Ormson, 11HHighly Commended: Linden Hogarth, L6 and Satchit Srikanth, U6

Congratulations to them all for their efforts, and to everyone’s hard-work and talent in producing an amazing evening!

HOUSE MUSIC, GRAND FINALE 2014

Issue 295 2 May 2014

Last term, four Year 12 Geography students Jonathan D’Rozario, Alex Cole, Mathew Hyatt and Harrison Coninx, along with Mrs Prestney, completed an online university module on Climate Change. The module was run by Exeter University. Each week they were presented with different aspects of climate change, including the history of climate change, the effects of climate change on natural systems, potential solutions and future predic-tions. At the end of each week they were assessed on the relevant topic with an online test. What was particularly useful was the relevance of the course to higher education. They had to watch weekly online lectures and were also challenged to develop new skills such as article research and graph making, as well as presenting and participating in discussions within forums. The skills learnt will be invaluable at university, and the challenging information and tests were an exciting insight into Geography at degree level and beyond.

Year 12 Geographers complete university module

Wilson’s Chess team achieved their best ever result by coming second in a National Final. On Wednesday 23 April they played in the National Final of Team Chess Challenge at Imperial College in London. The team of Adam Taylor (L6), Philip Knott (L6), Tharshan Kuhendiran (8G) and Pavan Murali (L6) won four, drew one and lost one of their six matches. On board 1 Adam Taylor scored an outstanding 5½ out of 6, whilst on board 3 Tharshan Kuhendiran scored 4½.

Wilson’s second in National Final

Wilson’s Chess team being presented with their trophies by chess grandmaster Professor Jonathan Mestel, Maths lecturer at Imperial College.

The Wilson’s team finally admitting defeat against the British Chess Champion, David Howell.

NOTICES

UP TO DATE CONTACT DETAILSPlease make sure that if you have recently moved, changed your mobile or house numbers or changed your employment address, you have given the school office the correct details. This informa-tion is extremely important particularly if your son is taken ill and we need to contact you urgently.

WILSONIAN PHOTO BOOKThe new Wilsonian photo book (for the last academic year 2012/13) is now available free as an online edition from the school website. High quality print copies can also be ordered at £30 each.

Before the main tournament, the school team played in a simultane-ous match against the British Chess Champion, Chess Grandmaster Da-vid Howell, who was playing ten games at the same time. The Wilson’s team fought well before eventually being the last team to lose.


This week: ‘affect’ or ‘effect’?

‘Affect’ is the verb; ‘effect’ is the noun. For example: “The poem affected me very deeply”; “The poet creates clever effects through her use of figurative language”.

Use the ‘RAVEN’ mnemonic to help you remember: Remember Affect is the Verb and Effect is the Noun.

How To Avoid Some Common Mistakes in Written English

Two Wilson’s students, Lewis Harrington and Alastair Prince, had their poems longlisted for the Christopher Tower Poetry Prize run by Christ Church College, Oxford. Congratulations to both students, who should be very proud of their achievement.

Christopher Tower Poetry Prize

Congratulations to last week’s winner, Vardaan Bhasin 7C who correctly identified the image as Old Trafford Stadium, which is home ground for Manchester United in Manchester, England, UK. Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Con-gratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s competition:

Onto this week’s competition! Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins! Get thinking.






CLASSICS CLUB

Takes place on Wednesdays at 1.15 p.m. in Room 5 (with free chocolate), or come earlier and eat lunch there. Volunteers to talk about anything vaguely Classical, perhaps to give a slide-show or show a video as well are most welcome. See Mr Lawson in Room 5.

Anyone needing help with Latin or Classics should go to Room 5 on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes for the general Latin help club.

CHESS CLUB

All pupils are welcome to attend the lunchtime club (Monday, Tuesday and Thursday). Those who aspire to play chess for the school are encouraged to also attend on Wednesday after school from 3.30 to 5.00 p.m. In all cases the meetings are in F12 in the Maths Department, and further information can be obtained from Dr Cooper: ([email protected])

MATHS CHALLENGE CLUB

This club is for anyone in years 8 - 13 who enjoys the challenge of tough maths problems to solve. For the summer term maths challenge club is run for pupils in years 7 to 10. It will include look-ing at past Junior Maths Challenge and Olympiad questions, as well as interesting games and puzzles. The club takes place on Wednesday lunchtimes in F12.

MANDARIN CLUB

Mandarin club has started again on Wednesdays after school in Room 14.


BUSINESS STUDIES & ECONOMICS CLUB

Available every Wednesday lunchtime (13.05 -14.00) for advice and help on how to improve your subject knowledge or exam technique in Business Studies and Economics. You may need help with homework or simply a quiet place to study where assistance is conveniently on hand. See Mr Ormonde in 6F3. No topic too ‘big’ or ‘small’!

COMPUTER CLUBSYear 10 and 11 coursework on Monday in F4 with Mrs GillYear 7 drop in Mondays C2 Mr WallaceScratch club for Year 7s on Tuesday in F5 with Mr Poole.A Level computing and AS ICT can use the following room at lunchtime (1.15 - 1.50) to do their coursework:

Monday F4 Mrs GillTuesday F5 Mrs Gill or Mr WallaceWednesday F4 Mrs Gill



HANDWRITING CLUB IS BACK!Don’t let your handwriting get in the way of achieving good grades! If teachers struggle to read your handwriting, then examiners will too. It’s not too late to improve your handwriting!

Come to handwriting club on Tuesday lunch times, in room 10, with Miss Lambert.


Desert People vs Volcanic People

Players: Ezra (me), Volcanic Army Edward, Desert Army

In Turn 1 both armies moved forward and manoeuvred into position. In the Desert Turn 2 Edward moved his Artillery and Behemoth forward on my left flank and his Artillery and Magician forward on my right flank. Edward kept his spears where they were, block-ing my path. He then deployed a water Lurker in the flank of my Magician, forcing him to turn. In the fight faze my Magician easily destroyed his Lurker and so I began my 2nd Turn.

I moved my Knights forward (on the left) planning to take his Artillery in the flank. However they were still far away. I then moved my Beasts forward on the right, unfortunately bringing them into range of his Artillery and Magician. If I was going to do battle with him I would have to take the fire. Finally I moved my Blades and War band forward in the centre. In the Desert Turn 3 he moved his spears towards my blades and deployed a Lurker against my Spears. The Lurker however was easily defeated. He then fired with his magician at one of my beasts and destroyed it completely! Edward’s Artillery fired again at my 2nd Beast unit but failed to do any damage.

In my Turn 3 I charged forward with my remaining beast but stopping one centimetre away from his Artillery. I then moved my Knights forward but again not quite reaching his Artillery. Things were looking desperate for the Volcanic people as I was fast running out of time to take his stronghold and he was a point up (having killed a beast). So in a last ditch attempt to salvage the game I fired with both my Magician and Artillery at his spears but failed to do any damage. In the Desert Turn 4 he turned his Artillery and Behe-moth/General to face my charging Knights. Edward then fired with his Magician and Artillery on my right flank at my unit of beasts forcing them to recoil twice. His Artillery which had just turned fired at a unit of Knights forcing them to recoil. But I didn’t mind as I had just realized his rotation had brought his Behemoth/General within range of my Magician! In my Turn 4 I charged my beasts into his Artillery and charged my knights forward so that one was in close combat with his Behe-moth/General and the other was one inch behind (because it had recoiled). My Magician then unleashed a bolt of magic at his Behe-moth/General forcing it to flee off the board. We had to stop there because of time but it was agreed that if we’d played on I would have won. A Pyrrhic Victory but a Victory nonetheless.

by Ezra Jackson, 8c

A very terrified Mr Lawson, clinging to the Greek flag, which flies at the summit of Mount Olympus, the highest point in Greece (2918 metres). Apparently Zeus and the others were not around on that day.

We had a very special first Classics club of the summer last Wednesday, as Mr Lawson gave a 20-minute video diary presentation and talked about walking 700 miles around Greece and finishing on the summit of Mount Olympus. In a feat worthy of Forrest Gump, he discussed travelling without a plan, sleeping in wheat fields, meeting strange people and climbing a mountain. He did try and explain why, if he is terrified of heights, he felt he had to climb the last part to the summit, which is actually quite a serious climb. Person-ally, if I see a notice which reads, “do not climb this mountain if a) you are on your own, b) you have no climbing gear, c) you have no experience of climbing, d) you have a fear of heights”; that is a notice I obey. I also wondered why he didn’t just take a bus, instead of walking 700 miles, but ap-parently that would spoil the fun. Certainly I doubt I will ever meet another Classics teacher who has done that.

Classics Club takes place in room 5 every Wednesday at 1.10 ish. There is free chocolate. Anyone who wishes may speak about any vaguely Classical topic.

HOTT Report - Friday 25 April

Classics Club


Turkey - April 2014

We departed Wilson’s in darkness on the Saturday morning and were soon on our way to Heathrow. The passage through the airport was smooth and we had a good flight to Istanbul. It was certainly strange looking out at Turkey, as the road signs were immediately different from European signs, like those we saw in Italy in October. After a long day travelling, we arrived at our hotel in Gallipoli, in time for a quick rest and our first dinner. Whatever we might have expected, the food in Turkey is exceptional and this remained the case for the rest of the week. After dinner, we were able to relax and look forward to seven days of amazing sight-seeing. I had a guidebook and spent some time after lights-out reading about Troy, which we were to see the next day. Anyone who has ever seen the film, or read books about it, or even just heard the legends, would know what a historic city this was. The view from my room as I went to sleep showed the waters of the Dardanelles, which has been the scene of so many great events over the millennia.

The start of the second day saw us sail across the Dardanelles to Asia, then drive to Troy, or “Truva” as it is known in Turkish. There is a great wooden horse model outside the archaeological site. You can climb inside it and imagine the scene 3.000 years ago when the Greeks sought to get inside the great “Cyclopean” walls. Inside the site itself, it helps to remember that the diggings of several different archaeologists have created a kind of confusion over what you see. A wall appears around a corner and seems tall and strong, made from closely-fitted stones without cement. Is it Troy 6A, the town that was supposedly besieged by the Greeks? Or could it be from an even older Troy, before the time of the Trojan war? As the wind blows fast over “windy Ilium” we move around through the strata and see rooms, palaces and ramps from many different cities. It is a strangely moving introduction to a city that started so many legends.The rest of the visit went very smoothly as we ticked off site after site full of amazing archaeological finds. There was Pergamon, with its hilltop acropolis; Ephesus, which seemed like a bigger version of Pompeii to those of us who went to the Bay of Naples last October. Tuesday saw us go to three ancient cities in sequence; Priene, Miletus and Didyma. I had not heard of any of these before the visit and they are not well known in Europe, but each site seemed to have a quiet charm that you don’t even find in Italy. We were almost alone at each place and could wander over the ruins, wondering at who had lived in them and built these magnificent houses. Unlike Italy, no-one whistles and shouts at you for sitting on a stone wall. There is simply so much left and so much still to be dug up, that no-one seems to mind about such activity. At Ephesus, for example, as we toured the painted houses and looked at the library of Celsus, we were told that what we could see was less than a quarter of the city.

There was much more to this visit than the sites, however. The hotels were mostly four star and had balconies with great views. The hotel in Pamukkale on Wednesday was a spa hotel, that seemed luxurious to me. We could look up in the evening and see the natural lime-stone rocks above. It would have been lovely to use the spa facilities and have a Turkish bath, but we had been told that swimming was not allowed! It didn’t matter so much, as earlier that day we had all been at the top of the hill paddling in the hot water from the natural springs. By that time, we had already seen so many amazing sights that we started to get used to it – there are so many beautiful things in Turkey. After Pamukkale we had to drive back to Istanbul, where we would be for our last night. Before that we had the cruise down the Bosphorus straits. These are the waters that separate the Black Sea from the Sea of Marmara and the Mediterranean. Conquerors and warriors have fought over these waters since Jason first sailed through them seeking the golden fleece. There were Persians, Romans, Greeks, Byzantines, Turks and British who all sailed these waters which divide Europe and Asia. We found ourselves looking out at the mosques and minarets; at the fortresses and guns; the palaces and parks; the haunts of emperors and sultans. We also found ourselves dancing to rave music which our guide insisted on playing over the loudspeaker. That was an extremely bizarre experience. On the final day, we were all looking forward to haggling in the Grand Bazaar. We had a lesson in haggling first, then set off for three hours of bargaining, talking, buying and tea-drinking. For most of the visit, nobody had spoken English, but here, everybody did. As we walked past stalls, the owners would come forward and make offers to us of reductions and deals for multiple items. Everyone was very polite, but very insistent. I got some spices and fez. I hadn’t wanted either at the start, but they just seemed too good a bargain to turn down. He wanted 40 Turkish Lira, but I got them for 20.

I think we are all grateful to the staff for their care and attention on this visit. Mr Lawson’s singing in the theatres was unforgettable as was his legendary sleeplessness when on duty in the evenings. Ms Jones always had whatever was needed when someone was ill on the coach, or just tired. She looked after us brilliantly. Mr Weston was always enthusiastic and held some great competitions, such as the “tidy room” competition in Kusadasi, or the “tat” competition, to see who could buy the most useless piece of tourist rubbish. Mr Hemmings was always ready to lead the group from the front and sometimes really saved the day; such as when one of us left his bag in McDonalds, next to Hagia Sophia. The bag was still where it had been left.

It’s hard to say what is my favourite memory of this visit. I could say it was the food, which was amazing in the evenings. I could mention the site of Troy, which was so atmospheric. Perhaps after all it was my friends and the staff and the group as a whole. When you spend a week abroad with so many funny and lively people, there will always be fantastic memories. I am sure that I will be back to do this visit again.


David Starmore from the Sutton and Croydon Multiple Sclerosis Centre came into school to thank the boys who took part in this year’s Tough Guy competition for raising over £10,000 for the charity.

David said that the money would be used for providing Physiotherapy and massage services for their members.

As an old boy of the school he was delighted to see how the boys had made such a great effort to raise such a large sum of money.

TOUGH GUY

SPORTS NEWS



CRICKET FIXTURES

Saturday 3 May- Wilson’s vs. John FisherU13A HomeU15A HomeU14A AwayU13B Away1st X1 Away

Monday 5 May - Wilson’s vs. MCC1st X1 Home(Cricket for Change)

Tuesday 6 May - Wilson’s vs. WallingtonU13B Home

Wednesday 7 May - Wilson’s vs. Trinity1st XI Away

Wednesday 7 May - Wilson’s vs. JohnFisher2nd X1 Away

Football

1st XI lost 2-1 v Sutton Grammar in the District Cup finalOxford v Cambridge Varsity match at Craven Cottage was a proud day for Wilson’s School. Anthony Childs, previous 1st XI captain at Wilson’s, had the privilege of doing the same for Cam-bridge while Michael Moneke started at Centre back for Oxford. The game ended 0-0 after a hard fought match, resulting in the dreaded penalties. Anthony Childs stepped up first to score and set an example to the rest of his teams, which they followed to score 4 of the 5 which proved to be enough to win 4-2 and claim the 130th Varsity match in front of the many thousands of supporters at Fulham FC. Michael Moneke was given the official man of the match and awarded a trophy. This was a proud moment for Wilson’s School Football, not only to have two Old Wilsonians playing in the prestigious game but to have them both raise a trophy. Well done to both of them.Well done to Sam Moody for winning County league with the Surrey county team and winning the semi-final of the U14’s National Cup 8-0 v Hertfordshire. We would like to wish him good luck in the National final on Saturday 17 May at Watford FC training ground, University College London Athletic Ground, Bell Lane, Colney, Hertfordshire, AL2 1BZ

CRICKET REPORT

U15A won by 84 runs v Wallington boys in the first league game of the 2014 campaign. Jack Shelton scored 78 and Daniel Moore as captain scored 34 retrieving a weak position in the game as we were 3 for 10 off 5 overs. Their 112 partnership guided the team to a total of 134. Our bowling and fielding continued with the momentum managing to bowl Wallington all out for 50 runs, claiming the first win of the season.

TENNIS

U13’s lost 4-2 to Rutlish. Luke Saitch and Dylan Pitter-Fagan won their doubles, but we just fell short in the singles in our first league game of the season. We are hoping for better luck in the next league

FUTSAL

Well done to Leon Kapszewicz and Callum Hockley for making the regional finals with the Surrey Schools Futsal U12 team. We wish them luck in reaching the national finals when they play on Sunday 11 May at Surrey Sports Park 10am-1pm.



9 May Y11 and Y12 Study Leave Begins12 May Public Exams begin16 May Y9 Geography Field Trip (Herne Bay)21 May Junior Musicians’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)26 - 30 May HALF-TERM4 June Y10 RE GCSE Exam9 June Y12 return to school

9 June Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop9 June Prayer Group Meeting (8.00 p.m.) all parents welcome11 June Pianists’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)13 June Art Exhibition26 June Open Evening27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y13

On Thursday 1 May four brave Year Seven pupils set off for the Eliza-beth Garrett Anderson School in North London to participate in the London Region Final of the Modern Languages Spelling Bee competition. There were approximately 6000 pupils initially registered for the competition in the London Region and the Wilson’s contingent had fierce competition if they were to progress through to the national finals to be held in Cambridge in July. In the French section Wilson’s was represented by Nicolas Negrier (7H) and Kiruba Jegatheesan (7H). Kiruba qualified for the final in which, after a very tense ‘sudden death’ play off he came third of the four finalists. Wilson’s had both of its Ger-man participants qualify for the final, Neel Maniar (7B) came third and the London Spelling Bee champion is Arenkan Kularaj (7C). Congratu-lations to all the participants who showed tremendous sang-froid un-der very stressful conditions. Wilson’s can with some pride reflect upon the fact that of the eight finalists representing the London Region in the German and French sections of the competition three come from our school. This is, in no small measure, due to the hard work of Mlle. Lemaire, Mr Fletcher and Miss Jones and, of course, the competitors themselves. Viel Glück und bonne chance for the next round!

Year 7 Modern Foreign Languages Spelling Bee

We are very happy to announce that the Link Lane bus stops outside the school are now the Wilson’s School bus stops. This idea was proposed by the now-Year 8s at last year’s Founder’s Day, when students were challenged to think of ways to celebrate our 400th Anniversary. After several conversations with Transport for London, they agreed to have the bus stops renamed, along with the announcements on all of the buses that stop there.

A representative from TfL took the time to wish us good luck planning for 2015 and for the actual celebrations.

If you think of any great activities to celebrate our 400th Anniversary, please send the Planning Committee an email to [email protected].

Wilson’s School Bus Stops


Upper Sixth Subject Commendations

Amir Ghomeshi German

Athanasius Ishak Chemistry

Robin Leverton Art & Chemistry

Nick Gikas Biology

Shivang Joshi Biology

Louis D'Costa English

Stephen Earls Government & Politics

Jordan Rose Physics

Callum Mance Physics

Dennis Luo Economics

Stefan Sivapatham Economics

Nick Page Philosophy

Liam Pavesi History

Anparasan Sivakumaran Geography

Michael Vereycken Mathematics

Rahul Shah Mathematics

Priyan Liyanage Mathematics

Tremaine Crawford Computing

Upper Sixth Subject Commendations April 2014

Subject Commendations are awarded by departments to their students who are working extraordinarily hard and as a result achieving a great deal in the run up to their A2 examinations. When considering the very high standard of our upper sixth students, it is an honour indeed to be commended as exceptional in this way. Our warmest congratulations to each of them.


NOTICES

Car Boot Sale on Sunday 11 May - Wilson’sSchool

Starts at 8:15am and entry is £1 (50p concessions). Sellers should arrive at the Hannibal Way entrance from 7:45 a.m. and a plot costs £10 – no booking required.

Sports Equipment

Pupils are reminded that they can purchase Wilson’s cricket clothing from Cladish Sports in Wallington.

Careers Interviews

From May to July careers interviews are available every Tuesday for all students in Years 8-10. If any student would like to see our specialist careers advisor this can be arranged. Interviews last 30 minutes and take place in the library office. Please contact your Head of Year or Mr Englefield([email protected]), the school’s Work Related Learning Co-ordinator to arrange an interview.

This week: ‘stationary’ or ‘stationery’?‘Stationary’ means ‘not moving’ and is an adjective; ‘stationery’ refers to writing materials and is a noun.

Remember: cars can be stationary; writers use stationery.


This year Wilson’s School has been very successful in the Young Enterprise competition, with our students coming in first, second and fifth in the recent regional heats held at the Croydon Conference centre. As the review by top entrepreneur Tahmid Rashid illus-trates, the Young Enterprise experience is a demanding but very rewarding one. Fitting in studies with team meetings , sales days and individual business development tasks is a lot to ask of anyone, but it is clear that Wilson’s students are made of stern stuff and were able to excel despite the pressure. Congratulations to the seventeen Lower Sixth boys who took part this year.

Young Enterprise Competition

Young Enterprise by Tahmid Rashid

‘Lunar Enterprise’ (oh yes a very unique name) started off with a group of teenagers who hadn’t known one another and had a very produc-tive first meeting, largely consisting of 2 hours of awkward silence. But, come 28 April we were crowned best company of Croydon. Though we did win YE Croydon, it didn’t come without its problems; such as coming up with a company name, a final product, and managing YE alongside A-Levels. Our product wasn’t ground breaking, you find that throughout the process what seems to sound like a star in the market, you simply do not have the resources to manufacture it (though anything is possible with perseverance). Our final product was a simple, but an exceptionally well finished, handmade scented candles. What I found most valuable is learning how tough business is in the real world, after an episode of Apprentice, you’d think it’s easy. For example, selling on a stand on Croydon high street is much harder than selling at Westfield.

The experience itself depends on what you want out of it, if you are a person that will just tag along, you’ll probably not learn much, though if you’re willing to put in the effort you’re more likely to learn a lot regardless of how successful your company is. Simply put, Young Enter-prise is a great platform for entrepreneurs in sixth forms and colleges to express their ideas and get a taste of reality. You will meet very inspirational individuals, for instance we had a speech from ‘George the Poet’, allowing you to establish excellent contacts at a young age and of course, make some money!


Prove it! Enter the History Department’s essay writing competitions.

Can I write my essay on anything?No. There are three topics that you can choose from - but they are very broad. You should choose one of three topics:1) Any aspect of British involvement in the Second World War. (KS3 & GCSE/A Level categories)OR2) Any aspect of the First World War. (KS3 only)OR 3) Work on any local history theme.(KS3 & A Level categories)

What should my question be?You should formulate a question which begins with one of the following stems:How important was…? To what extent did…? How significant was…? How successful was…? “Statement” How valid is this point of view?

It should be an issue about which there is debate. You should check the title with your History teacher, although he will not be able to mark drafts / give further guidance after you have discussed the question.

Where does the National bit come in?• ThewinningentryfortopiconewillbesubmittedastheWilson’sentryforthenationalYoungHistoriancompetition (Spirit of Normandy Trust Prize). It will be published on the school website and there will be a nominal prize!• ThewinningentryfortopictwowillbesubmittedastheWilson’sentryforthenationalYoungHistoriancompetition (Key Stage 3 World War 1 Prize). It will be published on the school website and there will be a nominal prize!• ThewinningentryfortopicthreewillbesubmittedastheWilson’sentryforthenationalYoungHistoriancompetition (Local History Prize). It will be published on the school website and there will be a nominal prize!

Closing date?The closing date is Monday 14 July 2014 and no entries will be accepted after this point.

If you have any questions please speak to Mr Englefield or your own History teacher.

Think You’re Britain’s Young Historian of the Year 2014?

Young Geographer of the Year (YGOTY) competition, run in partnership with the Geographical, is for geography pupils aged nine to 18.

The question for the 2014 YGOTY competition is:‘How can geography help you?’Pupils are asked to relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. The significance of both human and physical geography could be considered at a variety of different levels. Pupils should demonstrate how geography can support their everyday lives, improve their understanding of the world’s people, places and environments and help to prepare them for life beyond school.We want to hear how geography, be it the knowledge young people learn, the understanding they gain, or skills they develop, helps them in different aspects of their lives. This help might be at many different levels:• Atschool• Athomewithyourfamily• Whenyoutravelandgoonholidays• Whenyouthinkaboutcurrenteventsathomeorabroad• Whetheritwillhelpyouwithfurtherstudy,perhapsatuniversity• OrleadtoaparticularcareeryouwouldliketodoWe are interested in answers which might look at both the serious and the fun sides of geography and particularly want to see how entrants can relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. We welcome applications which, as appropriate for the age range, recognise the value of both human and physical geography.

For all categories appropriate and accurate geographical vocabulary should be used and we will provide additional credit for entries which use primary data collected by the student, alongside secondary data. The competition has four categories: 9-11(Key Stage Two), 11-14 (Key Stage Three), 14-16 (GCSE) and 16-18 (A Level students).

Closing date: The deadline for entries to both the YGOTY competition will be 17.00 Friday 24 October 2014. The Society regrets that it is unable to acknowledge receipt of entries, return entries or provide feedback on entries and the decision of the Society’s judges are final.

The winners will receive their prizes at a special ceremony at the Society’s headquarters in Kensington, London on Friday 28 November 2014.

Young Geographer of the Year competition 2014


This week Mr Weston gave a fascinating yet accessible talk to the Classics Club on one of the most enigmatic figures of Egyptian antiq-uity, the pharaoh Akhenaten. Akhenaten ruled for seventeen years, dying an astonishing one thousand, three hundred and thirty six years before Christ. He has perplexed and intrigued Egyptologists ever since the discovery in the nineteenth century of Akhenaten’s capital on the Nile, modern day Amarna. The reasons for Akhenaten’s allure are threefold: his radical religious heresy, his rela-tionship to other famous Egyptians (husband of Nefertiti and father of Tutenkhamun), and the singular quality of the art produced in his reign. Images of Akhenaten, for instance, are uniquely and some-times bizarrely stylised. We shall perhaps never know why Akhenaten decided to depict himself in this way. Similarly, Akhenaten’s revolu-tionary (and short lived) introduction of a proto-monotheistic cult has led some to speculate how different the history of Egypt, and, by extension, Classical Europe, may have been if his reforms had taken hold. Thanks again to everyone who came along and enjoyed the free chocolate and intellectual enrichment.

CLASSICS CLUB - AKHENATEN: HERETIC KING

HORDES OF THE THINGS CLUB

Three battles took place last Friday, with a mixture of newer and older players. All were decided before the end of lunch and all were a fun, relaxing way to spend a lunch hour at the end of a tough week. Everyone is welcome so do come along. You are welcome to watch, take part, or to learn; just as you wish.

Diary from the Silver level training expedition 28-30 March in the Ashdown Forest

Day 1We were all excited as we set out, looking at the clouds receding into the distance. Morale was kept high thanks to an immature venture by Ben Sharp, who got his boot stuck in a muddy river when he tried to jump over it. Despite Ben having very soggy feet, we powered on through the day, only disrupted when a large dog ran at our group causing one of us to run away and hide. Nev-ertheless we still managed to be the second group to reach the campsite.

Day 2The sun shone over our campsite as we set off on the Saturday morning. The trek was very successful especially the walk along the reservoir. The only major issue came at dinner time when one of our chefs put too much water in the rice, making it completely inedible. Not popular.

Day 3We were all disappointed as it was the last day. We ended it by walking up a really steep hill which produced a beautiful view of

the local area. A good way to finish what was an amazing adven-ture for all of us.

By Ben Burton, Nikilesh Ramesh, Ryan Shankar, Ben Sharp, Kiri-shoth Sivalogarajah and Neev Trehan (a.k.a. The Nobodies)

Update on Duke of Edinburgh Silver Award: Diary from expedition 28-30 March


Congratulations to last week’s winner, Sanjai Kiridaran 7G who correctly identified the image as Millennium Stadium, Cardiff, Wales, UK. Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s com-petition:

On to this week’s competition! Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins! Get thinking.






Anyone needing help with Latin or Classics should go to Room 5 on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes for the general Latin help club from 1.10 onwards.











Wilson’s beat North London Collegiate School 6 - 0. Wilson’s therefore qualify for the national finals for the sixth time in the past seven years.

UK Chess ChallengeIn the Surrey “Megafinal” on Bank Holiday Monday 20 Wilson’s pupils took part, and we had our best results ever:Year 12 Champion: Adam Taylor (L6)Year 11 Champion: Vignesh Nallathambi Pillai (11G)Year 10 Champion: Lewis Lou (10B)Year 8 Champion: Tharshan Kuhendiran (8G)

Seven other pupils also qualified in their age group for the next round, the Southern Gigafinal:Andy Deng (7C), Arun Appulingam (8H), Rehan Gamage (7C), Samino Fernando (7G), Isuru Jayasekera (9B), Thomas Short (L6) and Varun Jain (7H).

National Schools Chess results

SPORTS NEWS



CRICKET FIXTURES

Saturday 10 May- Wilson’s vs. Ewell CastleU14A HomeU12A AwayU13A Away

Monday 12 May - Wilson’s vs. St OlavesU15A Away

Tuesday 13 May - Wilson’s vs. Reigate GrammarU13A HomeU13B Home

Wednesday 14 May - Wilson’s vs. Reigate Grammar1st XI Away

Friday 16 May - Wilson’s vs. Reigate GrammarU12A AwayU12B Away

Cricket Report

Despite some Spring showers, the cricket season has begun at Wilson’s! The 1st XI have played 4 games so far; their best result a convincing win against Wallington in the Sutton League with Alex Yee scoring 50 and Nathan Heal taking 4 wickets for 5 runs. A disappointing loss followed last Saturday against John Fisher, despite 4 for 18 from Ben Flook and 41 from Alex Yee. Bank Holiday Monday saw the prestigious MCC game, which was very evenly contested and played in an admirable spirit. Mr N Husdon was making his MCC debut in the match, and top scored with 89 as the MCC made 211 for 6. An encouraging knock of 53 from Year 11 pupil James Sheridan took the School close, but we ended up 35 runs short.

In the Junior sides, all teams have won so far in their Sutton League games against Wallington and John Fisher. Callum Furmidge has shown promise with the bat for the new Year 7’s, scoring 32 against John Fisher. Our other stand out perfor-mances have come from Achal Srivastav (U14 A) who took 6 for 2 against John Fisher, and Jack Shelton (Year 10) who scored 76 against Wallington Boys.

Cricket Medals

Wilson’s Cricket medals are awarded for any player taking 3 or more wickets or scording 50 or more runs in a game. Pupils should see Mr Parkinson in the PE Office to collect their medal.

MAY PFA 100 CLUB DRAW WINNERS

1st prize £73.75 Lisa McGillivray2nd prize £44.25 R Venkatakrishnan3rd prize £29.50 Chelines Yee


If you would like to join the 100 club with the possibility of winning a prize each month you can obtain an application form by emailing the PFA: [email protected] or see Wilson’s website under PFA.


Wilson’s Cricket Results 2014

Epsom College 1st XI 143 for 2 20 oversWilson’s 1st XI 94 for 6 20 overs Ben Flook 33 noResult : Epsom College won by 49 runsWilson’s 1st XI 198 for 9 30 overs Alex Yee 50

Sam Wright 37Ollie Robertson 33

Wallington 1st XI 52 all out 20.4 overs Nathan Heal 4 for 5Result: Wilson’s won by 146 runsJohn Fisher 1st XI 141 for 6 37 overs Ben Flook 4 for 18Wilson’s 1st XI 83 all out 30.2 overs Alex Yee 41Result: John Fisher won by 58 runsMCC 211 for 6 49 overs Mr N Hudson 89! Wilson’s 1st XI 176 all out 47 overs James Sheridan 53Result: MCC won by 35 runsSutton Grammar XI 128 for 6 20 overs Wilson’s 2nd XI 87 all out 20 oversResult: Sutton Grammar won by 41 runsKCS Wimbledon 103 for 3 20 oversWilson’s U12 A 49 all out 17.1 oversResult: KCS won by 54 runsWilson’s U12 A 85 for 8 20 overs Callum Furmage 32John Fisher U12 A 37 for 8 20 oversWilson’s won by 48 runsKCS Wimbledon 120 for 5 20 overs Ijaz swaleh 3 for 19Wilson’s U12 B 70 for 9 20 oversResult: KCS Wimbledon won by 50 runsJohn Fisher U12 B 45 for 7 20 oversWilson U12 B 46 for 2 12.5 oversResult : Wilson’s won by 8 wicketsKCS WimbledonWilson’s U13 A Result: Wilson’s won by 2 wicketsWilson’s U13A 100 for 6 20 oversJohn Fisher U13 A 94 for 7 20 overs Linus Boselius 3 wicketsResult : Wilson’s won by 6 runsWilson’s U13 B 90 for 5 20 oversJohn Fisher U13 B 50 for 8 20 oversResult: Wilson’s won by 40 runsWilson’s U13 B 86 for 4 20 oversWallington U13 B 44 all out 14 overs Dillon Chituranjan 3 for 9Result: Wilson’s won by 42 runsWilson’s U 14A 91 for 6 20 oversJohn Fisher U14 A 42 all out 14.4 overs Achal Srivastav 6 for 2Result: Wilson’s won by 49 runsWilson’s U15 A 135 for 7 20 overs Jack Shelton 76

Daniel Moore 34Wallington U15 A 50 all out 14.4 oversResult: Wilson’s won by 85 runsWallington U15B 81 all out Daniel Clarke 4 for 7Wilson’s U15 B 82 for 5 Kris Page 38Result: Wilson’s won by 5 wickets.


Wilson’s Got Talent

On Thursday lunchtime, a packed hall of students and teachers enjoyed perhaps the most exciting (and at times bewildering) event in the school calendar. Some schools might be satisfied with routine magic tricks and awkward singing, but as is always the case, Wilson’s went above and beyond the normal realms of school activity. In a stroke of brilliance, Andy Deng illuminated the future of classical music by si-multaneously wooing and shocking the audience as he serenaded us with his violin whilst skateboarding. The wealth of talent in Wilson’s was exemplified by our dancers Jaian Patel, Kyriacos and Luke Stokes. Wilson’s then put all modern-day boy bands to shame with sterling performances from Mind the Gap, Michael and Ebruba, and The Blueberry Jam (who were “berry” good indeed). As if that wasn’t enough, judges were then left star struck after individual singing brilliance from James Watters and Sai Prabhu. But Wilson’s Got Talent wouldn’t be Wilson’s Got Talent without some first-class comedy. And Oscar Taperell certainly did deliver on that front with a David Attenborough sketch on “Wilson’s Life” that left the hall ringing with laughter. However, brilliance was not confined to the performers themselves. Mr Carew-Robinson once again displayed his renowned skill with words with no less than 18 puns in the space of 2 minutes. In comparison, the other three judges (Mr Elwood, Miss Tattersall, and Harry Perkin) only managed a pitiful 6 puns in total. Thankfully, Mr Ng managed to gloss over this unforgiveable lack of preparation and wit with his silver-tongued commentary. It was with heavy hearts that the judges began the unenviable task of choosing a winner ,whilst the audience were treated to a trio com-prising Satchit Srikanth, Jack Robertson and Mr Ormonde, as well as a dazzling magic display from Jack Tapperell (last year’s winner). After much consideration (and an even split between the judges) it was announced that:

1st Prize: Oscar Taperell (below right)2nd Prize: James Watters3rd Prize: Michael and EbrubaThe newly created Lifetime Achievement Award: Luke Stokes

The school can proudly say that we managed to raise £378 for Kids ‘n’ Cancer from the show which is a charity that recently sup-ported James Carpenter.

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NATIONAL SCHOOLS BADMINTON FINALS 2014

On Friday the Year 9 team travelled to Nottingham to take part in this year’s National School’s finals. The team had prepared well and were more than capable of putting in a strong performance. In the group stages Wilson’s were seeded 4 and had to play last year’s winners from Tapton school in Yorkshire in our group.

A strong performance from the team and in particular Joseph Li saw us through and we beat them three games to two. Another comforta-ble victory against Cowley school saw us through to the medal group, where gold, silver and bronze medals would be decided. We had to play the third seeds Monks Walk school first and beat them comfortably 4 games to one. It was now time to play the top seeds in the final. Again it was a very close affair with Bournemouth Collegiate just edging two games 21-20 and 21-19. This proved to be the difference and Wilson’s had to be content with the silver medal.

A magnificent achievement for the boys !

Over 1500 schools started in the competition and to be placed second overall is wonderful . All players were exceptional in their commit-ment and effort and were a great credit to the school.

To finish off the day , Joseph Li won the hardest smash competition and received a signed England shirt for his efforts.

Wilson’s have now reached the finals more often than any other school in the country over the last 15 years.

TEAMJoseph Li Rohit Prabhu Zhi Ping Lim Michael Banh Ryan Eaw


21 May Junior Musicians’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)26 - 30 May HALF-TERM4 June Y10 RE GCSE Exam9 June Y12 return to school9 June Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop9 June Prayer Group Meeting (8.00 p.m.) all parents welcome

11 June Pianists’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)13 June Art Exhibition

26 June Open Evening - (early finish for students - 1:05pm) 27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y1328 June CCF Central Summer Camp3 July Vocal Evening8 July Summer Concert

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NOTICES

Second Hand UniformIf you have any good quality uniform that the boys have grown out of or no longer need please send in to the school office.We are particularly low on smaller sizes .

Sports EquipmentPupils are reminded that they can purchase Wilson’s cricket clothing from Cladish Sports in Wallington.

Careers InterviewsFrom May to July careers interviews are available every Tuesday for all students in Years 8-10. If any student would like to see our specialist careers advisor this can be arranged. In-terviews last 30 minutes and take place in the library office.

Please contact your Head of Year or Mr Englefield([email protected]), the school’s Work Related Learning Co-ordinator to arrange an interview.

Sainsbury’s VouchersWe are still collecting “Active Kids 2014” vouchers from Sains-bury’s. These vouchers can be exchanged for sports equipment and we are hoping that if we collect sufficient vouchers we will be able to order: Footballs, Cricket bats and balls, Basketballs, Table-tennis bats and balls, Badminton rackets and shuttle-cocks, Tennis rackets and balls, Athletics equipment and Volley-ballsIf you shop at Sainsbury’s please don’t forget to ask for your Active Kids vouchers (one for every £10 spent) and lets see if together we can collect enough to give the school as much of the equipment above as possible. Please note vouchers are only being issued until 21 May this year. There is a collecting box on reception for you or your son to put your vouchers in.

This week: ‘compliment’ or ‘complement’?

‘‘Compliment’ means a polite expression of praise or admiration (“I paid my teacher a compliment”); ‘complement’ means something that contributes extra features to something else in such a way as to improve or emphasise its quality (“Red wine provides an excellent complement to some cheeses”).


Last Sunday the PFA held their second Car Boot Sale of 2014 at Wilson’s under cloudy skies. Twelve parents turned up to volunteer on a day where the weather never seemed to make up its mind, but with their help all of the sellers and buyers enjoyed a morning of bartering and bargain-hunting.

The next Car Boot Sale is on Sunday 1st June from 8:15-11:30 and entry is just £1 (50p under-16’s). If you’re interested in selling, plots cost just £10 and there’s no need to book. For more information please email [email protected].

Thanks to all who helped on the day. All of the money raised goes to help the school and it wouldn’t be possible without you. If you would like to find out more about how you can help by giving just an hour of your time please email [email protected].

Wilson’s Car Boot Sale

Young Enterprise

Not content with Wilsons doing so well in the recent regional Young Enter-prise award with teams in first, second and fifth places but it is great to report that Lower 6th student Jordan Quartey scooped the second place in the pres-tigious Spirit of Enterprise Award. This award is given to the lucky student for acting above and beyond the call of duty to the team either by some decisive act of business endeavour or by his overall contribution to the team through-out the competition. Local Young Enterprise chairman Mr Ian Willard praised Jordon for presence of mind and coolness when the ‘going got tough’. Jor-dan will be awarded a certificate and a place of the board of Young Enterprise next year in recognition of his efforts. Well done Jordon!

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The question for the 2014 YGOTY competition is:‘How can geography help you?’Pupils are asked to relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. The significance of both human and physical geog-raphy could be considered at a variety of different levels. Pupils should demonstrate how geography can support their everyday lives, improve their understanding of the world’s people, places and environments and help to prepare them for life beyond school.We want to hear how geography, be it the knowledge young people learn, the understanding they gain, or skills they develop, helps them in different aspects of their lives. This help might be at many different levels:• Atschool• Athomewithyourfamily• Whenyoutravelandgoonholidays• Whenyouthinkaboutcurrenteventsathomeorabroad• Whetheritwillhelpyouwithfurtherstudy,perhapsatuniversity• OrleadtoaparticularcareeryouwouldliketodoWe are interested in answers which might look at both the serious and the fun sides of geography and particularly want to see how entrants can relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. We welcome applications which, as appropriate for the age range, recognise the value of both human and physical geography.





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Theme for 2014: ‘Physical Geography around where I live’. - What physical geography can you spot around where you live?

We know that physical geography is all around us, but often we don’t stop to notice and really look for what can be found in the neighbour-hood, so to help you explore and find the physical geography near you we are running a photo competition.

What’s involved: Discover examples of physical geography in your local area. Capture your physical geography on any type of camera - a phone camera may be ideal. Submitting your best photo with a caption describing the geographical processes captured in the photo Discovering, through participating in the competition, that physical geography is all around us.

To be in with a chance of winning one of the prizes attach your photo (no larger than 5MB) to an email with information in the following table pasted into your message. Write the subject header pgphotocomp14 and send your email to:[email protected]

Name School School year Contact email address Physical geography theme of your photo (e.g. weathering) Where the photo was taken (use post code, grid reference, latitude/longitude coordinates or a short url link to a placemark on Google Maps). A few sentences (250 words maximum) describing the geographical theme in your photo, and any other information you deem appropri-ate. Competition categories There are two age categories for the competition:1. Years 7 - 9 (ages 11 to 14)2. Years 10 - 13 (ages 14 to 18)

In each category, the judges will select one winning entry. There will also be prizes for second and third place runners up.

The deadline for entries is 31 July 2014. Prize winners will be announced early in the autumn term 2014. Anyone can take photos - but here are a few tips 1. Photos must be landscape in orientation.2. Clean the lens. Over time the lens can collect dust, which can make your photos blurred - just wipe it with a clean cloth.3. Lighting can ‘make or break’ a photo, so think about the weather and the time of day before venturing out with your camera (early morning and evening sun light is usually particularly pleasing, as opposed to an overcast sky).4. Consider the framing of your photo, i.e. everything that is in it. Try to avoid having the focus of your photo in the middle (Google search ‘rule of thirds’).5. Look high and low, big and small and close and far for your ideas.

Remember, only one photo per entry. A winning entry will not be based entirely on the ‘best’ photo, so make sure you write an interesting and informative caption!Some ideas: For some inspiration here are some examples of physical geography you might find in your neighbourhood:

• abuildingshowingsignsofweathering• treescausingdamagetopavements,wallsorbuildings• a‘riverchannel’carvedintothedirtonthesideoftheroad• mudcracks• apoolofwaterafterarainshower• overflowfromagutter/drainpipeinadownpour• avalleythathasbeen‘forgotten’becauseithasbeenbuiltover• afencepostthatleansdownhill• mossgrowingononesideofatree• soilcoloursandtextureinafreshly-duggarden• pebblesinastream.

There are many other examples of physical geography waiting to be explored.We hope you enjoy taking photos of the physical geography in your area and look forward to receiving your entry.

Good Luck

Physical Geography Photo Competition 2014

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WILSONOMICS

Issue 10 Vol 2 of Wilsonomics is now available to view on line. Go to the Wilson’s website / departments (Economics) and there it can be found. Printed copies are available from reception, the 6th Form centre and the Business and Economics department. This month’s issue has more of a political orientation than usual. Writers Benjamin Flook and Tim Sharpe examine the economic performance of the coalition as a basis for evaluating future prospects of the respective parties in the forthcoming elections. We welcome also budding Year 10 economic commentator and Wilsonomics newbie, Art Sett with his detailed and interesting review of the German economy. Finally We have a quick look at the British economy with the Wilsonomics forecast. The outlook is decidedly sunnier but is that the threat of rising interest rates I see before me?

Mr Ormonde would like to thank Steven Thavendran and Dolapo Koleosho for their assiduous efforts this last year as editors. Mention and thanks should also be extended to the many contributors and readers of Wilsonomics. Without writers there would be no journal, without readers, no point.

HORDES OF THE THINGS CLUB

There were three battles again at Hordes of The Things Club, with a fair number of spectators and advisors too. All three battles were con-cluded successfully within the lunch hour. One battle even saw the comparatively rare sight of a stronghold getting captured with room to spare by the attacking army. As players are becoming sure of the rules and more confident, the pace of the battles goes up. The idea is that everyone has fun and goes away happy, even if a little regretful of some mistake they may have made in their gameplay. It is time to consider the possibility of staging a much larger, multi-command battle. Hordes of The Things club takes place every Friday in room 5 at 1.05. Come early to organise your army. If you want to watch, or learn, you will be most welcome. Armies and terrain are provided. As it happens, the armies are rather well-painted.

CLASSICS CLUB WEDNESDAY MAY 7TH

This Classics club gave us the premiere of the first half of Mr Shaw’s video of the recent school visit to Turkey. It was wonderful to see the Wilson’s party going around these sites with such enthusiasm and such obvious enjoyment. The sites themselves were beautiful places too. I didn’t go on the visit and I now wish I had gone. I would have loved to see Troy, Ephesus, Pergamon, Kusadasi and all those other towns. I also enjoyed the activity of trying to spot who was who and what they wearing on different days. They certainly seemed to have stayed in some lovely hotels. I believe the second half of the video will be coming up soon.

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Congratulations to last week’s winner, Varun Jain (7H) who correctly identified the image of Hyde Park, London, UK. He has won on a number of occasions now- will anyone beat him this week? Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Con-gratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s competition:





LATIN CLUBLatin help club happens in room5 every Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime from 1.05 to 1.50pm. Anyone wishing for advice or support should come and ask away. Year ten students attend to offer their experience, so there are always plenty of people available to assist.









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49 Wilson’s pupils have regularly played for winning League chess teams this year and on Thursday 8th May they were pre-sented with their trophies. Four teams won their divisions whilst the other two teams came second or third. Chess is so popular at Wilson’s that whilst each team should have six players most have had larger squads, of up to 10 players, who take it in turn to play.

On Friday 9th May Wilson’s hosted an interschool event with 16 teams from 7 schools and which they came 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Congratulations to the winning team of Tharshan Kuhendiran (8G), Arun Appulingam (8H), Thomas Short (L6) and Sharumilan Ravindran (L6).

Chess News

SPORTS NEWS



CRICKET FIXTURES

Saturday 17 May- Wilson’s vs. St Olaves

U12A HomeU13A AwayU14A Home

Wilson’s Cricket Results

Wilson’s 1st XI 129 for 8 30 overs Sam Wright 37Trinity 1st XI 130 for 4 26.1 overs Result : Trinity won by 6 wickets

Wilson’s U’15 A 87 for 5 20 overs St Olaves U’15 A 90 for 1 13 overs Result: St Olaves won by 9 wickets

Wilson’s U’14 A 88 all out 17.5 overs Stanley Park U’14 A 43 all out 15.2 overs Riddu Ravindran 3 for 7Sam Moody 3 for 2Result: Wilson’s won by 45 runs (Surrey Cup)

Stanley Park U’13 A 41 all out 19.4 overs Linus Boselius 3 for 12Wilson’s U’13 A 43 for 4 7.4 overs Result: Wilson’s won by 6 wickets (Surrey Cup)

Futsal Results

Congratulations to Callum Hockley and Leon Kapszewicz for winning the County regional Futsal finals with Surrey Schools this Sunday 11th May. They play in the National Finals at the end of June.

Year 7 Football Match V West Ottawa(Canada)

The Year 7 A team entertained a team from Canada in a 9 a side football match last Thursday 8th May.In a keenly contested match Wilsons came out 7-3 winners with goals from Seyon Srishangar(2) Luca Stringer(1) Joshua Fan(1)Rich-ard Gotts(1) Nathan Ferguson(1) Ted Perkin (1).


CLASS OF 2014: GOODBYE AND GOOD LUCK

On Friday 23 May we say goodbye to the Upper Sixth after our end of year celebration at The Hilton Hotel. We wish them luck with their upcoming examinations, but more importantly we wish them happiness and success in their lives beyond Wilson’s. As they become old boys, we hope they will not only see the school as part of their past, but that they will also commit themselves to supporting its future.


26 - 30 May HALF-TERM4 June Y10 RE GCSE Exam9 June Y12 return to school9 June Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop9 June Prayer Group Meeting (8.00 p.m.) all parents

welcome

11 June Pianists’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)13 June Art Exhibition

26 June Open Evening - (early finish for students - 1:05pm)

27 June Late Start ( Period 2) 27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y1328 June CCF Central Summer Camp3 July Vocal Evening8 July Summer Concert11 July Sports Day14 15 16 July End of Term Production

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Intermediate Maths Olympiad - Best Wilson’s Results Ever

Having performed very well in the intermediate mathematical challenge, Wilson’s students went on to the IMOK Olympiad with impressive results. A record 23 pupils gained merits or distinctions.

In particular the following pupils are to be congratulated for gaining amazingly high scores, amongst the very best in the country. Harry Goodburn (11S) with 58/60 was placed 4th amongst year 11 pupils whilst Eui Jin Choi (11B) with 52/60 came 10th and Daren Alfred (11S) also gained a distinction. In year 9 Isuru Jayasekera (9B) scored 49/60 23rd and Gabriel Cairns (9C) with 45/60 came 60th.

Compared to other schools Wilson’s pupils performed outstandingly well, obtaining the best results of any state school in the country. This bodes well for the Team Maths Challenge at the end of June when our year 8 and 9 team will compete in the National finals.

Pupils should see Dr Cooper in F12 to collect their marked scripts and gain guidance on how to do even better next year.

Geography Field Trip to Herne Bay

On Friday 16th May 66 Year 9 GCSE Geographers and staff visited the Kent Coast. On a hot and sunny day they walked from Reculver to Tankerton - just under 8 miles! Along the way they visited a number of sites - Bishopstone Glen, Herne Bay, Kentish Flats Wind Farm and Long Rock. The field work was designed to help their understanding of the coastal geography they have been studying as part of their GCSE. As is now traditional, everyone had the opportunity to enjoy some fresh fish and chips at lunch!

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NOTICES

China Expedition RequestCould all participants, who have not already done so, please ensure they have entered their passport, next of kin and medical details to the Outlook Portal. This is a travel re-quirement and needs to be completed ASAP.

Second Hand UniformIf you have any good quality uniform that your sons have grown out of or no longer need, please send in to the school office.We are particularly low on smaller sizes .

Lost PropertyA reminder that in order for property to be returned to its owner, please ensure that all items of uniform and equipment (including shoes, memory sticks, pencil cases, glasses cases etc.) are named. Note that any items of lost property that remain unclaimed at the end of each term will be disposed of appropriately.

This week: the correct spelling of ‘definitely’

The word ‘definitely’ is one of the most frequently misspelled words teachers encounter in the work of students. If you remember that it contains the word FINITE you will spell it correctly. There is definitely no ‘a’ in the word.


On Monday afternoon lots of you will have noticed Mr Phillips, Mr McLaughlin and Mr Marsac digging some large holes along Mollison Drive and wondered what it was all about. For those who don’t know, four of the holes will soon have a new English Oak Tree planted in them – one for each century of Wilson’s existence.In early 2015 we will be unveiling plaques for each which will outline a century of the school’s history. The fifth hole is for something a little different, but we’re keeping that under wraps for now. The trees arrive soon after half term and we’ll have some more information for you all then. Thanks to the boys who suggested plant-ing anniversary oak trees – if you have any ideas for the 400th Anniversary, please send an email to [email protected].

400th Anniversary News

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Physical Geography Photo Competition 2014Theme for 2014: ‘Physical Geography around where I live’. - What physical geography can you spot around where you live?

We know that physical geography is all around us, but often we don’t stop to notice and really look for what can be found in the neighbour-hood, so to help you explore and find the physical geography near you we are running a photo competition.

What’s involved: Discover examples of physical geography in your local area. Capture your physical geography on any type of camera - a phone camera may be ideal. Submitting your best photo with a caption describing the geographical processes captured in the photo Discovering, through participating in the competition, that physical geography is all around us.

To be in with a chance of winning one of the prizes attach your photo (no larger than 5MB) to an email with information in the following table pasted into your message. Write the subject header pgphotocomp14 and send your email to:[email protected]

Name School School year Contact email address Physical geography theme of your photo (e.g. weathering) Where the photo was taken (use post code, grid reference, latitude/longitude coordinates or a short url link to a placemark on Google Maps). A few sentences (250 words maximum) describing the geographical theme in your photo, and any other information you deem appropri-ate. Competition categories There are two age categories for the competition:1. Years 7 - 9 (ages 11 to 14)2. Years 10 - 13 (ages 14 to 18)

In each category, the judges will select one winning entry. There will also be prizes for second and third place runners up.

The deadline for entries is 31 July 2014. Prize winners will be announced early in the autumn term 2014. Anyone can take photos - but here are a few tips 1. Photos must be landscape in orientation.2. Clean the lens. Over time the lens can collect dust, which can make your photos blurred - just wipe it with a clean cloth.3. Lighting can ‘make or break’ a photo, so think about the weather and the time of day before venturing out with your camera (early morning and evening sun light is usually particularly pleasing, as opposed to an overcast sky).4. Consider the framing of your photo, i.e. everything that is in it. Try to avoid having the focus of your photo in the middle (Google search ‘rule of thirds’).5. Look high and low, big and small and close and far for your ideas.

Remember, only one photo per entry. A winning entry will not be based entirely on the ‘best’ photo, so make sure you write an interesting and informative caption!Some ideas: For some inspiration here are some examples of physical geography you might find in your neighbourhood:

• abuildingshowingsignsofweathering• treescausingdamagetopavements,wallsorbuildings• a‘riverchannel’carvedintothedirtonthesideoftheroad• mudcracks• apoolofwaterafterarainshower• overflowfromagutter/drainpipeinadownpour• avalleythathasbeen‘forgotten’becauseithasbeenbuiltover• afencepostthatleansdownhill• mossgrowingononesideofatree• soilcoloursandtextureinafreshly-duggarden• pebblesinastream.

There are many other examples of physical geography waiting to be explored.We hope you enjoy taking photos of the physical geography in your area and look forward to receiving your entry.

Good Luck

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The question for the 2014 YGOTY competition is:‘How can geography help you?’Pupils are asked to relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. The significance of both human and physical geog-raphy could be considered at a variety of different levels. Pupils should demonstrate how geography can support their everyday lives, improve their understanding of the world’s people, places and environments and help to prepare them for life beyond school.We want to hear how geography, be it the knowledge young people learn, the understanding they gain, or skills they develop, helps them in different aspects of their lives. This help might be at many different levels:• Atschool• Athomewithyourfamily• Whenyoutravelandgoonholidays• Whenyouthinkaboutcurrenteventsathomeorabroad• Whetheritwillhelpyouwithfurtherstudy,perhapsatuniversity• OrleadtoaparticularcareeryouwouldliketodoWe are interested in answers which might look at both the serious and the fun sides of geography and particularly want to see how entrants can relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. We welcome applications which, as appropriate for the age range, recognise the value of both human and physical geography.





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Classics Club Wednesday May 14th

Continuing the recent “Egyptian” theme, we discussed the successor of Akhenaten, who was his son (as recently proved by DNA analysis) tutankhamun. This boy was, of course, the most famous pharaoh of Ancient Egypt. His tomb was discovered by Howard Carter, apparent-ly undisturbed in 1922. In fact, it had been robbed and re-sealed shortly after the boy pharaoh’s death. It had got lost because his later pharaohs had tried to have all memory of the young boy removed from the record and then the tomb had been covered by later tombs andbyfloodingofthevalleyofthekings.Histombwasalsoverymuchsmallerthanitshouldhavebeen,whichhelpedinitsconceal-ment. The startling thing about Tutankhamun is not the state of his tomb, but that when he died at the age of 19, he had lived as long as he did. In a miracle of modern technology, using x-rays, DNA analysis and other techniques, scientists have discovered that young Tutankhamun had a catalogue of illnesses and injuries that would have killed many people far earlier. The enduring image of Tutankhamun is that of his funeral mask – a perfect image not at all indicative of a boy with tooth deformities; too large a head; several virulent strains of malaria; epilepsy; broken hip, leg and knee bones which had become infected; deteriorating bone structures in his feet; sickle-cell anaemia and many other diseases the names of which need not be repeated.This was very probably due in part to his descent from a family that had long practised marriage within strict family limits. The difference between the image of the famous mask and the reality of a poor, frail boy is remarkable. He did not need to be murdered, as many have supposed over the years.

Gardening News

On Thursday gardening club went back to RHS Wisley to compete in their annual “Budding Gardeners competition”.The theme this year is recycling. If you get the chance, please go along to see our entry and don’t forget to VOTE!!

Woodcote Nursery vouchers. We are once again collecting the school vouchers from Woodcote Nursery, so please ask for them at the till and then bring them into school.

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LATIN CLUBLatin help club happens in room5 every Tuesday and Thursday lunchtime from 1.05 to 1.50pm. Anyone wishing for advice or support should come and ask away. Year ten students attend to offer their experience, so there are always plenty of people available to assist.







HOTT CLUBHordes of the Things club is in room 5 every Friday from 1.05 on-wards. There are usually three battles every week, with space for new or starting players to join in, or just watch.




Congratulations to last week’s winner, Vardaan Bhasin 7C, who correctly identified the image of Croydon Airport in Croydon, London, England, UK. He has won on a number of occasions now will anyone beat him this week? Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s competition:

Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins! Get thinking.

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SPORTS NEWS


Wilson’s Cricket Results

Reigate GS 1st XI 121 for 7 20 overs Wilson’s 1st XI 65 for 8 20 overs Result : Reigate 1st XI won by 56 runs

Wilson’s U’15 A 129 for 3 20 overs Jack SheltonEamonn Hoare 40 noCoombe U’15 A 33 all out 13.4 overs Result: Wilson’s U’15 A won by 96 runs (Surrey T20 Cup)

Wilson’s U’15 A 75 all out 16 overs Trinity U’15 A 76 for 1 12 overs Result: Trinity U’15 A won by 9 wickets (Surrey Cup)

Wilson’s U’15 B 90 for 9 20 overs Trinity U’15 B 91 for 3 17 overs Result: Trinity U’15 B won by 7 wickets

Wilson’s U’14 A 65 all out 19.2 overs St Olaves U’14 A 69 for 2 7.5 overs Result: St Olaves U’14 A won by 8 wickets

Reigate GS U’13 A 70 for 9 20 overs Janaken P 4 for 8Wilson’s U’13 A 71 for 3 16.1 overs Result: Wilson’s U’13 A won by 7 wickets

St Olaves U’13 A 107 for 3 20 overs Wilson’s U’13 A 108 for 3 17.2 overs Nathan Mitchell 48 noMax Exelby 38Result: Wilson’s U’13 A won by 7 wickets

Trinity U’13 A 161 for 1 20 overs Wilson’s U’13 A 89 all out 18.4 overs Result: Trinity U’13 A won by 72 runs

Trinity U’13 B 107 for 8 20 overs Anish U 3 for 13Morgan Anthony 3 for 27Wilson’s U’13 B 81 all out 17 overs Result: Trinity U’13 B won by 26 runs

Wilson’s U’13 B 91 for 4 20 overs Reigate GS U’13 B 22 all out 13.4 overs Morgan Anthony 3 for 1Hat Trick! Result: Wilson’s U’13 B won by 69 runs

Wilson’s U’13 C 90 for 5 20 overs Trinity U’13 D 76 for 9 20 overs Result: Wilson’s U’13 C won by 14 runs

Reigate U’12 A 125 for 3 25 overs Wilson’s U12 A 12 for 2 23.3 overs Raed Hassan 41Dhruv Rupal 32Result: Wilson’s U’12 A won by 8 wickets

Wilson’s U’12 A 127 for 4 20 overs Callum Furmidge 67Raed Hassan 30St Olaves U12 A 77 for 6 20 overs Result: Wilson’s U’12 A won by 50 runs

Wilson’s U’12 B 89 for 5 20 overs Reigate GS U’12 B 92 for 6 19.5 overs James Craik 3 for 18Result: Reigate U’12 B won by 4 wickets

Futsal

Well done to both Joshua Robinson and Jalen Gravesande for representing the South East of England at the weekend in Swindon. The tournament involved London, South West England and East England. The South East came 2nd with Jalen scoring 2 goals in the competition. Our fingers are crossed that they did enough to impress the scouts to make the South of England squad due to play the North of England on the 31st May in Birmingham (@FutsalUK centre).


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Wilson’s Cricket Dream League 2014

FIRST DIVISION

Team PLD Won Drawn Lost Points Pts Av. Win %

U13A 6 5 0 1 15 2.50 83.33% U12A 4 3 0 1 9 2.25 75.00%

U14A 3 2 0 1 6 2.00 66.67% U15A 4 2 0 2 6 1.50 50.00% 1st XI 6 1 0 5 3 0.50 16.67% Total 23 13 0 10 39 1.70 58.33%

SECOND DIVISION

Team PLD Won Drawn Lost Points Pts Av. Win % U13B 5 4 0 1 12 2.40 80.00% U15B 2 1 0 1 3 1.50 50.00% U12B 3 1 0 2 3 1.00 33.33%

U14B 0 0 0 0 0 Total 10 6 0 4 18 2 54.44%

OVERALL

Other 5 1 0 4 3 0.60 20.00% Total 38 20 0 18 60 1.58 52.63%

Issue 299 6 June 2014Wilson’s Update


9 June Y12 return to school9 June Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)9 June Prayer Group Meeting (8.00 p.m.) all parents welcome11 June Pianists’ Evening (7.00 p.m.)13 June Art Exhibition (4.30 p.m.)26 June Open Evening - (early finish for students - 1.05 p.m.)27 June Late Start (9.40 a.m.)

27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y1328 June CCF Central Summer Camp28 June Wilson’s Summer Parkrun (Roundshaw Downs 9.00 a.m.) for boys, parents, old boys and staff30 June Work Experience Begins3 July Vocal Evening (7.00 p.m.)8 July Summer Concert (7.00 p.m.)9 July Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)11 July Sports Day (early finish for students at lunch time)14, 15 & 16 July End of Term Production15 July End of Term for Year 1017 July End of Term for Years, 7, 8, 9 and 12

JALEN GRAVESANDE REPRESENTS ENGLAND AT FUTSAL

On Saturday 31 May Jalen Gravesande travelled to the FA headquarters ‘St. George’s Park’ to represent the South of England at Futsal. To be selected for this prestigious tournament he attended a number of trials at the beginning of the year. He was then selected to play for the South East of England where he scored two goals and was part of a dominating team in the tournament. This proved to be sufficient to catch the eye of the South of England manager. On arrival he was greeted by many of the FA dignitaries and shown to the Paul Gascoigne changing room where he saw his No. 8 shirt ready and waiting for him with the 3 lions cemented on the chest. This, he said, ‘raised hairs on the back of my neck’. He commented that this moment was only topped by pulling on the shirt and lining up in the tunnel.

The fixture was to be played in front of a sell-out crowd in between the finals of the National Futsal Cup. The winners of this cup will represent England in the Futsal Champions’ League this summer. Jalen was understandably nervous yet excited to get on the court and start playing. The match started slowly with each side playing safely, not risking anything that might lead to a mistake. The first half ended 2-1 to the North of England . Jalen raised his personal game in the second half, getting involved in most of the attacks that threatened the North’s goal.

Futsal is a physically demanding game meaning most players only last 3-5 minutes on court at a time and then require 5 minutes recovery time. This only allowed bursts of 5 minutes to impress the U.18’s England manager to be select-ed for the final 14 players. The game ended 4-3 to the North of England but it was a great experience for everyone involved. Jalen is only in Year 11 and has two more years of this England set up. Even if he is not successful this time, we wish him all the best in his Futsal career.

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Recently all 303 students from Years 7 and 8 took part in the UK Junior Maths Challenge set by the UK Mathematics Trust. The challenge was very difficult and involved problem solving of a range of mathematical situations. It is sat by hundreds of thousands of students across the UK and takes the form of a 1 hour multiple choice paper. Those achieving marks in the top 40% will receive a Gold, Silver or Bronze certificate: given in the ratio 1:2:3. Exception-al performances will secure a place in the Junior Maths Olympiad.

This year our pupils recorded our best ever Junior Maths Challenge results. For the first time ever we surpassed 100 Gold Awards, with a total of 114 whilst a further 95 scored Silver Awards and 62 Bronze Awards.

Particular congratulations to Akash Gupta (8C) who gained the top score of 124, followed by Tony Lin (7S), Keiran Rutter (8B), Jonathan Coombe (8H), Christian Foulkes (8S) Alex Banwell (8C) and Rubaiyat Khondaker (7G). All seven pupils have automatically qualified for the Junior Maths Olympiad to be taken on Thursday 12 June. They should see Dr Cooper any lunchtime to attend preparation sessions for sitting the Olympiad.

The Maths Challenge and Olympiad is organised by the United Kingdom Maths Trust (UKMT); more details and sample papers can be found on their website: mathscomp.leeds.ac.uk

Well done to all students who participated and congratulations to all students who were awarded certificates to be presented later this term.

UKMT JUNIOR MATHS CHALLENGE SUCCESS FOR WILSON’S

NOTICES

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PARENTS FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE

Parents are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure any medication held in school is within its dates, and has not expired. Parents of children with Epipen medication are able to register online for reminders when medication is due to expire through the Anaphylaxis UK website.

Jean Crate from Sutton School Nursing is available to the boys at school between 1300-1600 on Wednesday afternoons during term-time. The school nursing team offer a confidential drop-in service to young people at secondary schools to allow them time to discuss any physical or emotional health concerns they may have. This is a service which parents can refer young people into, which school can refer to with consent from parents, and for young people to refer themselves.

If you have any questions regarding the service we offer to young people, or wish to refer to us, please contact the School Nursing team on 0203 458 5081.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE FORMS

We have received some phone calls from parents who were unable to locate leave of absence forms on our website. Please note these forms can be found under “Quick Links” on the right hand side of the front page of our website.

Parents should complete one of these forms for any known absence from school and they should be completed and brought into the school at least 3 working days in advance of the absence.

Congratulations to Soham Sarkar in 9C, who on Friday 9 May undertook a 3 mile bluebell fundraising walk at Cudham , Kent. The walk was organised by St Christopher’s Hospice for their charity and so far Soham has raised £215. If you would like to donate to this worthy cause please go to his page whichis still active:http://www.justgiving.com/Soham-Sarkar1.

Soham and his mum also helped in an eye operation camp organ-ised by RK Mission in a Himalayan village of Mayawati, during his holiday to India in April. Camp was organised by RK Mission in this remote Himalayan village to provide free cataract operation facilities to thousands of villagers who would otherwise have no access to modern medical facilities. Approximately 160 operations were performed in four days.

SOHAM’S CHARITY WALK


This week: ‘programme’ or ‘program’?

When using this word as a noun, the answer to whether you should use ‘programme’ or ‘program’ is in almost all cases to use the spell-ing ‘programme’. For example, “My favourite television programme is on every Monday”.

The spelling ‘program’, as a noun, refers only to computer programs. This is also the spelling when the word is used as a verb. For exam-ple, “I will try to program my computer to do my homework for me”.


NEWS RELEASE June 3, 2014 Croydon Minster launches fundraising campaign to keep its doors open Croydon Minster is a well loved landmark in Croydon’s Old Town and a church has stood on its site since Saxon times. Now it is in danger of having to close its doors during the week unless funds in the region of £30,000 can be raised by year end. In addition to being a place of worship, the Minster reaches out to the local community through providing a food bank, shelter for the homeless, counselling for those affected by drugs and alcohol, education and activities for young people, meeting opportunities for the elderly and study opportunities ranging from philosophy to dance. An exciting programme of events at Croydon Minster has been planned over the next 6 months and everyone in the local community and beyond is invited to participate. The first three events will take place on June 21/22: and July 26. On Saturday June 21st Croydon Minster will open for guided tours of the West Tower during the Croydon Heritage Festival, and visitors will also be welcome to view the rest of this beautiful historic building. In addition, there will be music, a book stall and cakes and preserves on sale. The next day, June 22 is the patronal festival of the Minster, the feast of St John the Baptist. There will be celebratory service at 10am, sung by the Minster Choir. On July 26, the Schola Cantorum will lead a sponsored Psalmathon: all 150 Psalms of David sung to traditional Anglican chant. This will start at 7am and run until late at night: it takes over 16 hours to sing them all. The public is invited to drop in to listen and to help raise funds through sponsorship. And on the night of July 26, the Vicar of Croydon, the Rev’d Colin Boswell will be joined by fellow clergy and supporters, as he sleeps rough in the Minster Grounds to raise awareness of the work the Minster church does for the homeless and socially disadvantaged in Croydon as well as raising funds for the Campaign. For more information on any of these events, please go to www.croydonminster.org or contact The Rev’d Christopher Moore on 020 8688 8104. If you wish to donate please go to the Minster’s Just Giving page at: https://www.justgiving.com/croydonparishchurch/donate/

FUNDRAISING AT CROYDON MINSTER


Wilson’s once again entered the RHS competition. The theme was recycling and our concept of re-cycling the borough’s recycling bins was very well received.

The garden was bright and hopefully demonstrat-ed how much you can do in a small space. Aron, Nathan and Lex planted out the garden and had a great afternoon at Wisley.

The “Mr Phillips super tour” was cut short only because of a sudden thunderstorm and the boys would have happily stayed for hours looking at all the different areas of the garden. We did not win an award this year but were very encouraged by the comments from visitors while we were there.

BUDDING GARDENERS’ COMPETITION

Congratulations to last week’s winner, Jack Richards 8G who correctly identified the image as Roland Garros tennis courts in Paris, France. He has won on a number of occasions now - will anyone beat him this week? Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s competition:

Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins! Get thinking.






CLASSICS CLUB


Anyone needing help with Latin or Classics should go to Room 5 on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes for the general Latin and Greek help club. Year 10 students are available to help out.

CHESS CLUB




MANDARIN CLUB





COMPUTER CLUBSYear 10 and 11 coursework on Monday in F4 with Mrs GillYear 7 drop in Mondays C2 Mr WallaceScratch club for Year 7s on Tuesday in F5 with Mr Poole.A Level computing and AS ICT can use the following room at lunchtime (1.15 - 1.50) to do their coursework:

Monday F4 Mrs GillTuesday F5 Mrs Gill or Mr WallaceWednesday F4 Mrs Gill





CLASSICS COMPETITION - GUESS THE QUOTATION

Who wrote the following quotation?Where exactly does it appear in bronze?About whom was it written?

The first person to get to Mr Lawson with the three answers correct (one try each) wins some chocolate.

“Go tell the Spartans, stranger passing by,That here, obedient to Spartan law, we lie.”


The sun was shining, the sky was blue and we had nearly 30 cars and lots of buyers!

All the parents who kindly volunteered did a great job and it was lovely to meet so many really charming people who are so willing to continue to help, when they can, at each of our boot fairs and other school events.

Jackie Lane kindly made a huge number of delicious cup cakes and large cakes to sell which was a great success with many people buying a box of 5 cakes at a time!

The Boot Fair raised over £500 for Wilson’s and will be put towards the refur-bishment of the Main Hall.

The next Boot Fair is to be held on Sunday 20 July – please put the date in your diaries now and join us for a fun morning as well as helping to raise money for Wilson’s.

WILSON’S CAR BOOT SALE - SUNDAY 1 JUNE 2014

Wilson’s School Art Department warmly invites you to the A Level & GCSE Private View on Friday 13 June 2014, from 4.30 - 7.00 p.m.

WILSON’S ART DEPARTMENT A LEVEL & GCSE PRIVATE VIEW

7 Camberwell won the Year 7 chess tournament this year by a clear margin of victory. Not only did their first team score 13.5/16, but their second team came third with 9 points. In second place was 7G first team who scored 10.5 points.

HOUSE STANDINGSPLACE NAME SCORE1st Camberwell 292nd Greencoat 18.53rd Southwark 10.54th Hayes 9.55th Brecon 2.5

WILSON’S YEAR 7 CHESS TOURNAMENT 2014


WILSON'S SCHOOL

SUMMER CONCERT AND JAZZ EVENING

TUESDAY 8TH JULY 7PM JOIN US FOR A

SUBLIME EVENING OF ENTERTAINMENT

Advance bookings via ParentMail2

Adults £6 Under 18s £4

Refreshments provided by the PFA

Summer Concert and Jazz Evening - Tuesday 8 July 7.00 p.m.

Beauty & The Beast - Monday 14, Tuesday 15 & Wednesday 16 July 7.30 p.m.

It is the end of another year at Wilson’s and to celebrate in style the Music Department is presenting a very special evening. The Summer Concert and Jazz Evening will showcase some of our most talented musicians in what promises to be a sublime evening of entertainment. Parents, grandparents, friends, teachers; all are welcome. If you’ve never been before- put the date in your diary and do come along- you will be amazed at the standard of our talented students. Recently some of our students were described by Matthew Scrivener leader of the National Ballet Orchestra as playing at virtually professional level. Come and hear them and maybe even enjoy a glass of Pimms (or two!)

Tickets will soon be on sale for this year’s Junior Production, Beauty and the Beast. The boys have been working very hard and this produc-tion looks set to be our best yet! Tickets will go on sale via ParentMail2 and will sell fast so please make sure you put the dates in your diaries.

As ever, we rely on support from parents and friends of the school on the evening of the event, selling drinks, raffle tickets and nibbles in aid of the school. If you would like to help on the evening, either behind the bar or selling raffle tickets & nibbles, please e-mail Beverley Barry at [email protected]. It’s a great way to meet parents and make new friends as well as supporting the Music Department and the Wilson’s Parents and Friends Association (PFA). Sparing just a few hours of your time would make an enormous difference!

MUSIC DEPARTMENT UPDATE


FIRST DIVISIONTeam PLD Won Drawn Lost Points Pts Av. Win %

U13A 6 5 0 1 15 2.50 83.33%U12A 4 3 0 1 9 2.25 75.00%U14A 3 2 0 1 6 2.00 66.67%U15A 5 3 0 2 9 1.80 60.00%1st XI 6 1 0 5 3 0.50 16.67%

Total 24 14 0 10 42 1.75 60.33%

SECOND DIVISIONTeam PLD Won Drawn Lost Points Pts Av. Win %

U13B 5 4 0 1 12 2.40 80.00%U15B 2 1 0 1 3 1.50 50.00%U12B 3 1 0 2 3 1.00 33.33%U14B 0 0 0 0 0

Total 10 6 0 4 18 2 54.44%

OVERALLOther 5 1 0 4 3 0.60 20.00%Total 39 21 0 18 63 1.62 53.85%

Wilson's Cricket Dream League 2014

CRICKET FIXTURES

Fri 6th June U’12 A away at Tiffin, 2 pm start (Surrey Cup) Thurs. 12 June U14D at home to John Fisher U’12 B away at Trinity, 2 pm start 2.00 p.m. start U’12 C away at Trinity, 2 pm start U’14 A away at Whitgift, 4:15 pm start (Surrey Cup)

Sat 7th June U’12 A away at Whitgift, 9:30 am start Fri 13 June U12A away at Glyn 3.10 p.m. start U’13 A away at Whitgift, 9:30 am start U12B away at Glyn 3.10 p.m. start U’14 A away at Glyn, 9:30 am start U’14 B away at Glyn, 9:30 am start U’15 A home to Trinity, 9 am start (Surrey T20 Cup) U’15 B home to Glyn, 9:30 am start

Tues 10th June U’12 A away at OWCC, 4:30 pm start (Challenge Cup) U’13 A away at Glyn, 3:30 pm start U’13 B away at Glyn, 3:30 pm start


SPORTS NEWS



CRICKET NEWS

Result from Tuesday 3 JuneThe U’15’ A’s progressed through to the next round of the Surrey T20 Competition with a narrow win against Glyn. Glyn posted 102 for their 20 overs, with Eugene Carr the stand out bowler. In reply, Wilson’s lost both openers (Eamonn Hoare and Amar Pal) early, but Jack Shelton and George Kellingley progressed the run rate well. With Jack bowled by a viciously turning ball and then George run out, the game looked to be going Glyn’s way. Up stepped Eugene Carr and Josh Norman to hit 29 from the last 3 overs, to give Wilson’s a 5 wicket win with a ball to spare. Next up in this Competition, the U’15’ A’s face Trinity this Saturday (7 June). The game starts at 9 am at home, and the boys will welcome your support.

Wilson’s Cricket MedalsPupils are reminded that medals are awarded for any player taking 3 wickets or more, or scoring 50 runs or more. Please see Mr Parkinson to receive your medal.

Wilson’s Cricket Clothing is available from Cladish Sports in Wall-ington. This includes playing shirts, trousers, jumpers and caps, all printed with the School badge. It is expected that all players rep-resenting the school should have a Wilson’s playing shirt. If players want to wear a jumper during a game then it should be a Wilson’s one or a plain jumper, not one with club colours on it. Similarly, cricket trousers should be Wilson’s or plain, not club trousers. If play-ers wish to wear a cap during a match then it should be the black Wilson’s one available from Cladish.

Team of the Week (week commencing 19 May)With both the U’13 A’s and B’s losing their 100% records in games against Trinity on Tuesday afternoon (19 May), it left the U’12 A’s to pick up our first ‘Team of the week’ award! They achieved 2 wins in 2 days against good opposition to hopefully show signs of promising things to come. They travelled to Reigate Grammar on the Friday afternoon and won by 8 wickets, and followed that up with a com-prehensive 50 run win at home to St Olaves on Saturday morning. 2 good team performances, with excellent individual ones as well as outlined in the ‘Player of the Week’! We wish them luck in their Surrey Cup game away at St Joseph’s this Friday afternoon.

Player of the Week (week before half term)- From the U’12 A’s, Raed Hassan posted a combined 71 from their 2 matches, and captain Callum Furmidge hit an impressive 67 against St Olaves. Jack Shelton from the U’15 A’s hit 64 in total from their 2 competitive Cup games. But the winner is a bowler from our strong U’13 B side, Morgan Anthony who picked up 3 for 27 against Trinity this Tuesday, this coming on top of his outstanding performance against Reigate Grammar the week before. In this game, Morgan took 3 wickets for 1 run from 2 overs, with the wickets coming in the form of a 2nd over wicket maiden hat-trick! All of the wickets were clean bowled, and all against batsmen in the top 5. Congratulations to Morgan, who wins the inaugural Player of the Week award.

GOLF

Golf has started in PE lessons. 8H started this week in the com-munity golf programme organised by an Old Wilsonian Richard Shaw. The boys are competing nationally and individually, the top scorer this week in year 8 is Max Exelby with 25 points in the chipping test. The year 7’s are starting later this week. There will be different challenges every week over the coming 5 weeks. All points are collated for an eventual winner, good luck to you boys choose to compete.

FUTSAL - U14 REGIONAL CHAMPIONS

Our congratulations also go to the U14 futsal team who have made it through to the National futsal Finals in Birmingham on 28 and 29 June, beating futsal specialists Escolla Club 4-0 with a hat-trick from Piralash Pathmanathan and a clean sheet from Ted St. Clair-Gray and other futsal league teams.

The U4’s team was made up of Ted St Clair-Gray (Year 8), Tolu Soretire, Jon Chen, Piralash Pathmanathan, Michael Ojetunde, David Okoh and Caleb Nelson. The team had trained for 7 weeks prior to this competition and managed to beat Dulwich college and other teams this season to make this regional final. The tournament was played at Brunel University in Uxbridge. All players arrived on time ready to showcase all the hard work they had put in to be part of this occasion. Ted St. Clair-Gray played in the absence of Toby Godwin and was outstanding, man of the tournament the organiser informed ‘Mr Parkinson’. All the squad performed exceptionally well with Michael Ojetunde named as player of the tournament.

It was a proud moment for the boys to win this tournament and make the National Finals for the first time in the school’s history.

We wish them good luck in the finals.



13 June Art Exhibition (4.30 p.m.)25 June Vocal Evening26 June Open Evening - (early finish for students - 1.05 p.m.)27 June Late Start (Registration at 9.30 a.m.)27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y1328 June CCF Central Summer Camp28 June Wilson’s Summer Parkrun (Roundshaw Downs 9.00 a.m.) for boys, parents, old boys and staff30 June Work Experience Begins

8 July Summer Concert (7.00 p.m.)9 July Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)11 July Sports Day (early finish for students at lunch time)14, 15 & 16 July End of Term Production15 July End of Term for Year 1017 July End of Term for Years 7, 8, 9 and 12

Dates for your Diary - Sept. 2014

Please be aware of the date your son will start back in September. 2014 remembering that he will be in the year group above his current year group

1 September Staff Only Day2 September Staff Only Day3 September Term begins for new Year 7, Year 8 and Year 135 September Term begins for Year 11 and Year 128 September Term begins for Year 9 and Year 10

JACK TAPERELL MEETS THE AMERICAN AMBASSADOR TO THE U.K.

Congratulations to Jack Taperell, who met US Ambassador Matthew Barzun at a private reception last week at the am-bassador’s residence in Regent’s Park. The reception was held to celebrate the achievements of sixty one state school stu-dents from around the UK who will be starting their degrees at US universities this Autumn. The students were all part of the US programme run by the Sutton Trust and the Fulbright Commission, which aims to help students from state schools to win funded places at universities in the US. Jack was one of only three students on this programme to secure a place at Yale University, an incredible achievement which is due not just to his academic ability (which led to him also being offered a place to study English at Cambridge) but also his extra-curricular achievements and the level of organisation and commitment that he showed throughout the application process.

Jack has very kindly donated to the school all of the materials that he used for his US application and has already been help-ing students in year 12 to make applications of their own. The best time to start work on an application to the US is at the end of year 11, and if there are any year 11 students who are considering this, they should contact Dr Hemp as soon as possible after their GCSE exams.


NOTICES

IMPORTANT MESSAGE TO PARENTS FROM THE SCHOOL NURSE

Parents are reminded that it is their responsibility to ensure any medication held in school is within its dates, and has not expired. Parents of children with Epipen medication are able to register online for reminders when medication is due to expire through the Anaphylaxis UK website.

Jean Crate from Sutton School Nursing is available to the boys at school between 1300-1600 on Wednesday afternoons during term-time. The school nursing team offer a confidential drop-in service to young people at secondary schools to allow them time to discuss any physical or emotional health concerns they may have. This is a service which parents can refer young people into, which school can refer to with consent from parents, and for young people to refer themselves.

If you have any questions regarding the service we offer to young people, or wish to refer to us, please contact the School Nursing team on 0203 458 5081.

LEAVE OF ABSENCE FORMS

We have received some phone calls from parents who were unable to locate leave of absence forms on our website. Please note these forms can be found under “Quick Links” on the right hand side of the front page of our website.

Parents should complete one of these forms for any known absence from school and they should be completed and brought into the school at least 3 working days in advance of the absence.

Earlier this week we received the details of our 400th Anniversary fundraising campaign for the Royal Marsden and we’re very excited to share this news with you.

The Royal Marsden have proposed that all of the money the boys raise throughout 2015 will go towards a new research fellowship into the treatment of Rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of soft-tissue cancer that affects children. Our donation will help fund a ground-breaking research project into the use of PARP inhibitors as part of the treatment process, which have been shown to prevent the cancer cells from repairing and may increase the effectiveness of the chemotherapy and radiotherapy treatments.

This research project offers the boys an opportunity to support new research that could have a very wide-ranging impact, not only in the treatment of Rhabdomyosarcoma but in other forms of cancer too. Over the next few weeks a representative from the Royal Marsden will be speaking to the Year 8 and Year 10 students about the project and in September every boy will be given a booklet with lots of fundraising ideas in it.

We will be publishing the full proposal online where you will be able to read all about the project and find out more about how the money our students raise will help. If you have any questions or fundraising ideas in the meantime please send an email to wilsons400@wilsonss-

400TH ANNIVERSARY FUNDRAISING WITH THE ROYAL MARSDEN


This week: ‘fewer’ or ‘less’?

Bill Bryson is well known as the author of highly entertaining travel – and, more recently, history – books. However, one of the most useful books he has written dates from his days as a subeditor on ‘The Times’ newspaper. It is called ‘Troublesome Words’ and is a guide to avoiding common mistakes in written English. It would be a valuable addition to any home library!

On whether to use ‘fewer’ or ‘less’, Bryson writes: “Probably no other pair of words causes more problems, and with less justification, than ‘less’ and ‘fewer’. The generally cited rule is that ‘less’ applies to quantity and ‘fewer’ to number. A rougher but more helpful guide is to use ‘less’ with singular nouns (less money, less sugar) and ‘fewer’ with plural nouns (fewer houses, fewer doctors).”


Congratulations to last week’s winner, Neresh Anandakumar, 604 who correctly identified the image as Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin, Germany . Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct!





This week at Hordes of the Things club, two epic battles raged on in room 5. The first, between a veteran player and a newer player was quickly decided after three turns when the veteran took his opponent’s stronghold with an aerial hero and a flier in assistance. There was not much resistance to those units as they were aerial ones and his opponent had no aerial units with which to counter them, apart from the two dragons, which, being lazy, could not be successfully summoned to the battle. After three rounds, the attacker gloriously prevailed in one of the shortest battles so far. The record for shortest game is held by the winner of a battle on the second turn; this was achieved by killing the enemy general.

On the other table, another veteran and new player were battling it out with the new player as the defender and the veteran attacking. Despite being inexperienced and new to the game, the new player won as the veteran didn’t take the stronghold and also lost one unit. And even though this seemed an insignificant amount, a game like this can be unrelenting if you don’t achieve the objective in time.“Hordes of the Things” club happens in room 5 every Friday lunchtime. Armies of beautifully painted miniatures may be moved around and engaged in combat in a fun, quick, decisive manner.

HORDES OF THE THINGS CLUB - FRIDAY 6 JUNE



CLASSICS CLUB



CHESS CLUB




MANDARIN CLUB





COMPUTER CLUBSScratch club and ICT drop in for Year 7s on Tuesdays in F5 with Mr Poole.





CLASSICS CLUB - WEDNESDAY 4 JUNE 2014

Classics club last week continued the recent Egyptian theme, with a masterful talk about Osiris from Thomas Lonsdale (7C). He explained the Osiris myth; the connection with Isis; the popularity of the mythology and what it might have meant for Egyptians. Modern parallels were also made with this myth. The themes of rejuvenation and spring can be found in many cultures. Essentially, for the Egyp-tians, the annual flooding of the Nile, which ensured prosperity and life, was guaranteed by the pha-raoh, acting as an earthly Osiris, to bring about the fertility of the crops.Report by Edward Wong (8S)

Classics club takes place every Wednesday in room 5 at lunchtime. You may eat your lunch there. There is free chocolate. Anyone may discuss anything vaguely Classical, or just sit, listen and relax.


WILSON'S SCHOOL







Summer Concert and Jazz Evening - Tuesday 8 July 7.00 p.m.

Beauty & The Beast - Monday 14, Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 July at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale via ParentMail2 for the Summer Concert and Jazz Evening and the Junior Production. These events are always extremely popular and usually sell out in advance of the evening. Please book your tickets now to avoid disappointment!


JUNE PFA 100 CLUB DRAW WINNERS

The winners for the month of June are: 1st prize £75 Susan Gauge2nd prize £45 Lisa McGillivray3rd prize £30 Janet Yang

Congraulations to our prize winners this month.

If you would like to join the 100 club with the possibility of winning a prize each month you can obtain an application form by emailing the PFA: wilsons100clubgmail.com or see Wilson’s website under PFA.


CRICKET RESULTS

Wilson’s Cricket Results 2014 Tiffin U’12 A 114 for 9 20 overs Wilson’s U’12 A 25 All Out 12.1 overs Result : Tiffin won by 89 runs (Surrey Cup) Wilson’s U’12 A 90 All Out 19.5 overs OWCC U’13 94 for 3 18.2 overs Result: OWCC U’13 won by 7 wickets (Wilson’s Challenge Cup) Trinity U’12 B 105 for 9 20 overs Wilson’s U’12 B 70 All Out 18 overs Result: Trinity U’12 B won by 35 runs Wilson’s U’12 C 69 for 5 20 overs Trinity U’12 C 70 for 2 13 overs Result: Trinity U’12 C won by 8 wickets Wilson’s U’14 A 91all out 24.4 overs Whitgift U’14 A 92 for 1 11.5 overs Result: Whitgift U’14 A won by 9 wickets (Surrey Cup) Wilson’s U’13 A 36 All Out - Glyn U’13 A 37 for 4 14 overs Result: Glyn U’13 A won by 6 wickets Wilson’s U’13 B 115 for 6 20 overs Glyn U’13 B 92 All Out 17.4 overs Dillon Chithuranjan

4 for 13 (Hat Trick) Result: Wilson’s U’13 B won by 23 runs All games away at Glyn and Whitgift on Sat 7th June were halted after a few overs due to the rain.


U13A 7 5 0 2 15 2.14 71.43%U12A 6 3 0 3 9 1.50 50.00%U15A 5 3 0 2 9 1.80 60.00%U14A 4 2 0 2 6 1.50 50.00%1st XI 6 1 0 5 3 0.50 16.67%

Total 28 14 0 14 42 1.50 49.62%


U13B 6 5 0 1 15 2.50 83.33%U15B 2 1 0 1 3 1.50 50.00%U12B 4 1 0 3 3 0.75 25.00%U14B 0 0 0 0 0

Total 12 7 0 5 21 2 52.78%

OVERALLOther 6 1 0 5 3 0.50 16.67%Total 46 22 0 24 66 1.43 47.83%



SPORTS NEWS



THE HOBBS TROPHY

Congratulations to Year 10 Cricket Captain George Kellingley who has been selected to represent Surrey London Boroughs in the HOBBS Trophy at The Kia Oval next Monday (16 June). George will be playing in a triangular T20 tournament against The Rest of Surrey and London Schools. His first match will start at 11.00 a.m., and entrance is free for spectators should you wish to go along to sup-port him. This is a fantastic opportunity for George to play at a Test venue, and he follows on from last year’s Wilson’s representatives James Sheridan and Curtis Rose. We wish George the best of luck.

CRICKET FIXTURES

Wed 11 June U’15 B away at John Fisher, 3:45 pm start Thurs 12 June U’15 A away at John Fisher, 2 pm start (Sutton League) U’14 B at home to John Fisher, 2 pm start

Fri 13 June U’15 A away at Trinity, 3:30 pm start (Surrey T20 Cup) Sat 14 June U’12 A at home to Sutton Grammar, 9:30 am start (astro wicket, Sutton League) U’12 B away at Sutton Grammar (Northey Avenue Playing Fields, SM2 7HR), 9:30 am start (Sutton League) U’13 A away at Sutton Grammar (Northey Avenue Playing Fields, SM2 7HR), 9:30 am start (Sutton League) U’14 A at home to Sutton Grammar, 9:30 am start (Sutton League) U’15 A away at Sutton Grammar (Northey Avenue Playing Fields, SM2 7HR), 9:30 am start (Sutton League)

Mon 16 June U’15 B away at Langley Park, 2 pm start

Tues 17 June U’15 A away at Old Wilsonians Colts, 4:40 pm start (Wilson’s Challenge Cup)

Thurs 19 June U’14 B at home to Langley Park, 2 pm start

WILSON’S CRICKET MEDALS

Pupils are reminded that medals are awarded for any player taking 3 wickets or more, or scoring 50 runs or more. Please see Mr Parkinson to receive your medal.

WILSON’S CRICKET CLOTHING

Wilson’s Cricket Clothing is available from Cladish Sports in Wal-lington. This includes playing shirts, trousers, jumpers and caps, all printed with the School badge. It is expected that all players representing the school should have a Wilson’s playing shirt. If players want to wear a jumper during a game then it should be a Wilson’s one or a plain jumper, not one with club colours on it. Sim-ilarly, cricket trousers should be Wilson’s or plain, not club trousers. If players wish to wear a cap during a match then it should be the black Wilson’s one available from Cladish.

CHESS RESULT

Wilson’s lost to Sevenoaks School 5 - 7


Dates for your Diary25 June Vocal Evening26 June Open Evening - (early finish for students - 1.05 p.m.)27 June Late Start (Registration at 9.30 a.m.)27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y1328 June CCF Central Summer Camp28 June Wilson’s Summer Parkrun (Roundshaw Downs 9.00 a.m.) for boys, parents, old boys and staff30 June Work Experience Begins

8 July Summer Concert (7.00 p.m.)9 July Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)11 July Sports Day (early finish for students at lunch time)

14, 15 & 16 July End of Term Production15 July End of Term for Year 1017 July End of Term for Years 7, 8, 9 and 12




WILSON’S HOST BANDON HILL SPORTS DAY

On Thursday 12 June, Wilson’s hosted the annual Bandon Hill Pri-mary School Sports Day. 240 enthusiastic pupils from ages 7 to 11 arrived at the School at 9:30 a.m., and were kept entertained by the 27 boys in the Year 10 GCSE PE Group for 3 hours!

Each Bandon Hill pupil took part in Discus, Agility Races, Javelin, Tug of War, 40 Metre Sprint, Long Jump, and Shot Put. There was even a rest station where resident comedian Sami Hussain played games and told jokes to keep the children entertained whilst they got some much needed water on board on what was a hot day (see pictures)! The classes and activities were run excellently and

expertly by our GCSE boys, with Bandon Hill pupils, teachers and parents commenting upon how much they had enjoyed the day, and indeed how well our boys had represented the School. The day also ended with victory, with Calum Nuttall winning the Wilson’s Year 10’s vs. Bandon Hill Parents 40 Metre Challenge Race!

Our congratulations to all those boys involved.


NOTICES

WATER SPORTS TRIP TO CALA LLEVADO SPAIN 2014

There is a trip meeting for all parents on 3 July 3 at

6.30 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre

At the end of last term all Y8 boys were given the opportunity to use their mathematical knowledge and understanding in a more creative way. The boys submitted a rich and entertaining array of entries, which their teachers found a pleasure to mark. The best entries were per-formed by the boys in their year assembly which proved to be a great success. Highly commended entries included a short story by Matthew Hill (8H) with ingenious mathematical play on words and a parody of Counting Stars (ie Counting Numbers) by Gabriel Lumsden and Conrad Conduah (8C). Congratulations to Abhi Chatterjee (8B) for his winning, “other-worldly”, entry below.

Y8 MATHS CREATIVE WRITING COMPETITION

Numberville

In the city of Numberville, there are many communities. They thrive amongst themselves, but much controversy and separation exists, yet to be eradicated…

In Integer Street, the most renowned place in the whole of Number-ville, the celebrities lived. These were the natural numbers, such as 3 and 27. They were the most glamorous, the richest, and always were invited to the most popular party events. They were the numbers, who lived in the houses with the whole, positive door numbers. Their butlers were very dashing gentlemen, and their maids were always loyal to them. These butlers and maids lived with them in their crystal palaces, in the servants’ negative integer quarters. This was how it worked in Integer Street. In the surrounding streets, lived the friends of the natural celebrities. These were the rational non-inte-gers. Some of the best known ones here were numbers like 0.5, and 1/3. Although not born with traits such as the God-given natural numbers, they were the close friends and family of the numbers on Integer Street. Together in this tightly infinite community of integers and rational non-integers, they made up the array of rational num-bers.

Then there were the dirty rotten scoundrels, as they were known in the city of Numberville. They were the Irrationals. The vermin of the city, as everyone who was anyone, took any necessary measures to avoid running into them on the streets. They were thought of as disgusting, because of the way that although they seem simpler than most, behind the mask, they are so complicated, that they cannot be expressed as a fraction or decimal. It is for this reason that many of the rich bring with them their bodyguards in case they run into one of these irrational thugs. Although if you were careful you would avoid these numbers, they still posed a threat to the city of Numberville.

And this is where we resume our story. In the decent and modest street of Rational Non-Integers. Here lived one of the most average RNI’s you could possibly ever have. Introducing 27.35. This was a number who was nothing special. Just one of the countless infinite RNI’s that existed. And yet this number would make such a discovery, that would change his life, and those of the number race for good. 27.35 had had previous experience of dealing with an Irrational before. And he won the fight. On the way home, half terrified he would bump into another criminal, he went back home, and thought long and hard. He realized, that these people, such as the one he ran

into, the notorious √3, were square roots of natural numbers. And he thought about what a natural number was. He knew they were posi-tive integers. But what about square roots of negative integers? Had no-one thought of this idea before? What was the square root of any negative number? It was totally revolutionary. It was completely cra-zy, but this completely ordinary number, 27.35, had just introduced a whole new type of number. But what would they be called?

27.35 spent the next several days talking to his psychiatrists about the visions he had about these numbers that he had imagined to be. They were fascinated, and recommended informing the Numberville institute of numerical advances with the discovery that this ordinary number had made. With the full support of the chairman of the Num-berville institution of numerical advances, 27.35 was able to start a foundation, for the scientific creation of imaginary numbers (SCINF). And so the citizens of Numberville endured another year with the Irrationals, before 27.35 was one day given the news, that the robots that the SCINF had been attempting to create had succeeded. When he arrived at the foundation HQ, he was shown to Test Laboratory No.1 and given access to view the first ever, imaginary robotic num-ber, √-1. It was other-worldly, and 27.35 took the initiative to supply the robot with specimen weaponry, and unleashed him for a defence run against an irrational dummy. After that succeeded, the prototype was cloned, and were made the guardians of Numberville, and made into the stern police robots that would keep the rest safe from the irrational criminals that lurked around the Number City. 27.35 was very quickly recognized for his work, and soon Queen 1 knighted the little number to the nearest whole number. He was now known as 27. 27 lived the rest of his life as a natural number celebrity, and that was how numbers changed his life forever.

THE END


OLD WILSONIANS’ TEAM BEAT THE ‘EGGHEADS’

Last week five OWs featured on the BBC2 show Eggheads and they annihilated their quizzing foes.

David Gibbon, Kush Amin, Max Thompson, Alex Bate & Naveed Tariq, who were all in Greencoat from 1999-2006, took on a couple of Who Wants To Be A Millionaire winners, a Mastermind and some other quiz show masters and won every round, something that has apparently never been done before. The show is on iPlayer but unfortunately not for long. I’ve posted an article on the alumni site

about their victory and the link to the show is also there - http://wilsonsalumni.org.uk/page/news_eggheads

I’m sure those of you who taught these guys will (quite rightly) claim some of the credit for the win. Impressively, even when they didn’t know the answer they were able to make well-informed guesses, which is definitely something they learned at Wilson’s!

Later this month Wilson’s School will be taking over the Round-shaw Downs Parkrun and everybody is invited including students, teachers, parents and old boys! There is already a large group from Wilson’s who take part at Roundshaw Parkrun and on 28 June we are hoping to get lots of extra people to come along. We have sched-uled this so that it is after exams week and as an added incentive we will be providing cakes etc at the end.

If you’re a regular Park Runner you’ll know how the whole thing works, but if not then read on... It’s a non-competitive 5km race that takes place every Saturday morning at 09:00 at venues all across the country. Every runner’s time is uploaded to the Parkrun website and you can track how you’re doing on a week-by-week basis. It’s a great way to get fit at your own pace. You should start by registering with Parkrun, www.parkrun.org.uk. To get a time you need to download a unique bar code, print it out and bring it with you on the day. As

you register you can choose to join a running club - be sure to find Wilson’s School in the drop-down list so that you’re on the team. The run really does suit all abilities and teachers will also be running trying their best to keep up with the boys!We are also encouraging parents to come along and run for Wilson’s School, or indeed to provide moral support if the thought of running 5K is too much.

The run starts on Roundshaw Downs at 09:00 - for directions refer to the Roundshaw Downs Parkrun web page http://www.parkrun.org.uk/roundshaw/course/. Hope to see you on the 28 June at 09:00.

WILSON’S SUMMER PARKRUN


ART EXHIBITION

On Friday 13 June, Wilson’s School Art Department opened its doors to the public for A Level & GCSE students to proudly showcase their wonderful artworks.

The proud family and friends who attended the exhibition were blown away by the quality and quantity of work on display. Many guests arrived throughout the evening to congratulate both the students and their teachers on their achievements.

We now await the examination grades with eager anticipation.


Congratulations to last week’s winner, Samino Fernando, 7G, who correctly identified the image as the Scottish Parliament Building, Holyrood, Edinburgh. He has previously won - will anyone beat him this week? Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct!





Chocolate available for the first student to tell Mr Lawson who said, as he lay dying, “vae! Puto deus fio.” - “Alas! I think I’m becoming a god!”

CLASSICS COMPETITION - GUESS THE QUOTATION

Summer Concert and Jazz Evening Tuesday 8 July 7.00 p.m.



WILSON'S SCHOOL









CLASSICS CLUB

Takes place on Wednesdays at 1.10 p.m. onwards in Room 5 (with free chocolate), or come earlier and eat lunch there. Relax and discuss something Classical in a relaxed informal atmo-sphere. Last week Ellis Nash of Year 7 volunteered to talk. YOu can come to listen or participate just as you wish. Volunteers to talk about anything vaguely Classical, perhaps to give a slide-show or show a video as well are most welcome. See Mr Lawson in Room 5.


CHESS CLUB




MANDARIN CLUB


DEBATE CLUBDebate club runs every Monday lunchtime in Room 16. Please see

Mrs Guy with any questions.





HOTT CLUBHordes of the Things club meets in room 5 every Friday; miniatures war gaming with simple rules. Armies and advice provided (if want-ed). Terrain boards available. Do come early to get a good game in and choose



CLASSICS CLUB - WEDNESDAY 11 JUNE 2014 by Ellis Nash, 7C

This week at classics club, I talked about The Punishments of the Gods. At first I was stuck on what to talk about, because there had been a theme of Egyptians for the previous weeks. I was thinking of doing an Egyptian theme also, but was stuck on what to talk about that I found interesting and everyone else found stim-ulating. I was thinking about Prometheus, the man who was imprisoned for shar-ing the secret of fire with man. Then I thought I could make a presentation about what people had done wrong, and how Gods punished them. I talked about Prometheus, Pandora, Midas, Tantalus and Sisyphus, all of whom had horrible and disgusting punishments. These people are all part of the Greek mythology. I really enjoyed my first ever talk, and will definitely be doing another.


THE HOBBS TROPHY - MONDAY 16 JUNE

Congratulations to Year 10 Captain George Kellingley who won the HOBBS Trophy at The Kia Oval on Monday (16 June). Play-ing as part of the representative team for the Surrey London Boroughs, George played in a T20 tournament against The Rest of Surrey and London Schools. George contributed with both bat and ball as they defeated The Rest of Surrey in their first game. A comprehensive victory against London Schools then followed to give Surrey London Borough victory, and retention, of the Hobbs Trophy. Well done George.

TEAM OF THE WEEK - U15Bs

Congratulations to the U’15 B’s whose 2 wins make them the ‘Team of the Week.’ Last Wednesday they defeated John Fisher, and then followed that up this Monday with a win against Lang-ley Park. Both wins were away from home to make them even more significant. Captain Kris Page scored a total of 52 from both games, and was backed by his bowlers Vignesh Patel (3 for 22 vs. John Fisher) and Daniel Clarke (3 for 13 vs. Langley Park). Well done to all the team.

SURREY SCHOOL ATHLETICS

On Saturday a number of boys from Wilson’s represented Sutton in the Surrey Championships.

Jordan Dobbs reached the final of the 300m and recorded a time of 43sec.which was a great effort as he is a year under age. Jonathan Chen also reached the final of the 800m and ran an excellent time of 2minutes 10 seconds a personal best (see pho-tograph). Piralash Pathmanathan was placed second in the Long Jump final with a jump of 5m.15cm

Jacob Veerapen won the Triple Jump with a leap of 13m 69cm and Tom Holden won the senior boys 1500m in a time of 4.01.We now wait to see if Tom and Jacob have qualified for the Na-tional Individual finals later this Summer.

Well done to all these boys

WILSON’S CHALLENGE CUP

Each year the School compete against the Old Wilsonians CC for 3 Cups. This gives our boys the chance to go over to the Old Boys Ground in Hayes and play on the facilities they could utilise when they become ‘Old Wilsonians.’ Our U’12 A’s had narrowly lost to the their U’13’s a couple of weeks ago, and so it was the turn of the U’15 A’s to make amends on Tuesday (17th). Batting first, we posted 124 for 6 from 20 overs (see Player of the Week for write up!). In return the boys bowled excellently and caught fantastically to bowl the Old Wilsonians out for 38. Sachin Suseelen did a great job stepping into the team from the B’s, taking 3 for 5 from his 2.2 overs. 4 catches were taken expertly in the slips, 3 from Jack Shelton. After a difficult last week for results in the Surrey and Sutton Cups, it was great to see the boys play with skill and character to lift the Wilson’s Challenge Cup (team photo below). Next Wednesday the 1st XI travel to Old Wilsonians to try and retain the Eric Massey Shield. We wish them luck.


CRICKET RESULTS

WILSON’S CRICKET RESULTS 2014

Sutton G U12A 55 for 9 20 overs Marcus Brown 5 for 5Wilson’s U12A 57 for 1 12.1 overs Wilson’s won by 9 wickets (Sutton Cup)

Wilson’s U12B 88 for 8 20 oversSutton G U12B 55 for 3 20 oversWilson’s won by 33 runs

Sutton G U13A 56Wilson’s U13A 57 15 oversWilson’s U13A won (Sutton Cup)

Wilson’s U14A 90 for 3 20 overs Sam Moody 33Sutton G U14A 91 for 9 19.3 overs Achal Srivastav 4 for 19Sutton G U14A won by 1 wicket (Sutton Cup)

Wilson’s U14B 108 for 4 20 overs Raza Ali 45John Fisher U14B 84 for 7 20 overs Wilson’s U14B won by 24 runs

Sutton G U15A 106 for 6 20 overs Alex Lane 3 for 10Wilson’s U15A 94 all out 18.4 oversSutton G U15A won by 12 runs (Sutton Cup)

Wilson’s U15A 82 for 9 20 oversJohn Fisher U15A 86 for 8 18.4 overs Eugene Carr 3 for 15 Alex Lane 3 for 16John Fisher U15A won by 2 wickets (Sutton Cup)

Trinity U15A 144 for 9 20 overs Josh Norman 3 for 30Wilson’s U15A 85 for 9 20 overs Trinity U15A won (Surrey T20 Cup)

Wilson’s U15A 124 for 6 20 overs Josh Norman 52 George Kellingley 34OWCC U15 38 all out 13.2 overs Sachin Suseelan 3 for 5Wilson’s U15A won by 86 runs (Wilson’s win the Challenge Cup)

Wilson’s U15B 111 for 5 20 overs John Fisher U15B 103 for 6 20 overs Vignesh Patel 3 for 22Wilson’s U15B won by 8 runs

Langley Park U15B 66 all out 16.2 overs Daniel Clarke 3 for 13Wilson’s U15B 67 for 5 15.2 oversWilson’s U15B won by 5 wickets



U13A 8 6 0 2 18 2.25 75%U12A 7 4 0 3 12 1.71 57%U15A 8 4 0 4 12 1.50 50%U14A 5 2 0 3 6 1.20 40%1st XI 6 1 0 5 3 0.50 17%

Total 34 17 0 17 51 1.50 50%


U14B 1 1 0 0 3 3.00 100%U13B 6 5 0 1 15 2.50 83%U15B 4 3 0 1 9 2.25 75%U12B 5 2 0 3 6 1.20 40%

Total 16 11 0 5 33 2 69%

OVERALLOther 6 1 0 5 3 0.50 17%Total 56 29 0 27 87 1.55 52%


SPORTS NEWS



CRICKET FIXTURES

Fri 20 June U’12 A away at Glyn, 3:15 pm start U’12 B away at Glyn, 3:15 pm start U’12 C away at KCS Wimbledon (SW19 4RA), 2:30 pm start U’12 D away at KCS Wimbledon (SW19 4RA), 2:30 pm start Sat 21 June U’12 A at home to Lingfield Notre Dame, 9:30 am start U’12 B at home to Lingfield Notre Dame, 9:30 am start (astro pitch) U’13 A away at RGS Guildford (GU4 8AT), 9:30 am start U’13 B away at RGS Guildford (GU4 8AT), 9:30 am start U’14 A away at Lingfield Notre Dame (RH7 6PH), 9:30 am start U’15 A away at Lingfield Notre Dame (RH7 6PH), 9:30 am start

Wed 25 June 1st XI away at Old Wilsonians, 11 am start (Eric Massey Shield)

Thurs 26 June U’12 A away at Reigate Grammar School, 12 pm start – Reigate 6’s tour-nament

Fri 27 June U’12 A at home to Trinity, 2 pm start

PLAYER OF THE WEEK JOSH NORMAN

Two bowlers grabbed the headlines from Saturday’s home games against Sutton Grammar. Achal Srivastav took 4 for 19 in the middle overs for the U’14 A’s to put them in with a chance of pulling off a spirited victory. However, in a tense finale, Sutton just squeezed home with 9 wickets down and 3 balls to spare. On the other wicket, the U’12 A’s restricted Sutton to 55 for 9 from their 20 overs. This was largely down to Marcus Brown’s incredible spell of 4 overs, 2 maidens, 5 runs, and 5 wickets. This enabled the U’12 A’s to win com-fortably by 9 wickets.

However, our award this week goes to a batsman. Batting has been the weakest discipline among most sides this sea-son, and so will continue to be a focus in practice sessions. It’s been a few games since a batsman hit a half centu-ry for the School, with Raza Ali coming closest last week with 45 for the U’14 B’s against John Fisher. Captain Sam Moody scored 33 important runs for his U’14 A side against Sutton, however their target still proved a little short.

Then up stepped Josh Norman on Tues-day (17th) to hit 52 off 47 balls at Old Wilsonians. Batting at Number 4, Josh came to the crease at 20 for 2, and then watched partners fall to leave the side struggling on 40 for 5 after 10 overs. This brought Captain George Kellingley to the crease, and he and Josh put on a 84 run partnership from 66 balls, with Josh run out on the last ball of the 20 over innings. In this last over Josh had brought up his first ever 50, enabling the team to post a total of 124 which Old Wilsonians found far too difficult in reply. Congratulations to Josh who is ‘Player of the Week’ and whose knock allowed his team to lift the Wilson’s Challenge Cup.

Who can be the next Batsmen to score a 50?



27 June Late Start (Registration at 9.30 a.m.)27 June Book Return for Y11 and Y1328 June CCF Central Summer Camp28 June Wilson’s Summer Parkrun (Roundshaw Downs 9.00 a.m.) for boys, parents, old boys and staff30 June Work Experience Begins

8 July Summer Concert (7.00 p.m.)9 July Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)11 July Sports Day (early finish for students at lunch time)

14, 15 & 16 July End of Term Production15 July End of Term for Year 1017 July End of Term for Years 7, 8, 9 and 12




CCF VISIT 10 DOWNING STREET

Four Wilson’s School CCF cadets accompanied by Major Burton and Captain Grant were guests at a Downing Street reception. Sgt Chris Mallet, Cpl Dan Skinner, LCpl Jemil Seelan and Cdt Alicia Symes were there with 76 other cadets from state schools as ambassadors of the Combined Cadet Force at an event to promote the Cadet Expansion Programme.

Cadets and staff alike were excited at the prospect of entering Number 10 via the iconic black door.

The cadets got the chance to meet David Cameron and other senior Government figures at the reception on Wednesday afternoon in the Rose Garden.

Major Burton reported how proud he was of the cadets turnout and how confident they were in the surroundings of No 10 and in the company of the Prime Minister.

A news report of the event can be viewed at http://forces.tv/42877852 with the Wilson’s Cadets speak-ing with the Prime Minister at the beginning of the report.


WILSON’S GOLD DofE AWARDS

Congratulations to Old Wilsonians Zeyang Gao, William Ries and Henry Stanley who, on Monday, joined the steadily growing numbers of Wilson’s boys achieving their Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award. The boys attended a ceremony at St. James Palace in London where they were presented with their Gold Award certificates in an event presided over by HRH Prince Edward, Earl of Wessex. The boys were given the opportunity to discuss their time on the award with the Earl, sharing memories and experiences with both royalty and other award winners. They were also treated to talks on the Award and the history of their amazing surroundings, which included spectacular oil paintings of Trafalgar and Waterloo.

The Gold Award is the final stage in the Duke of Edinburgh Award. In order to achieve it the boys had to complete 12 months volunteering, and either 12 months of a physical activity or a skill. The remaining section then had to last 6 months. As with Bronze and Silver, the boys then had to undertake two expeditions, but at a higher level, with longer walks and more gruelling terrain. Zeyang, Will and Henry all reached the cloudy peak of Mount Snowdon on their final expedition, an experience that was both tough and rewarding. The major development from the other stages is the additional ‘Residential’ section, which requires candidates to stay with new people and undergo activities in order to complete the section, ideally demonstrating skills acquired throughout their award.

The Gold Award is a very special achievement, with few managing to persist all the way to completion. Once again, congratulations to all three boys, who all encourage anyone considering doing their award to see it all the way through to Gold, as the rewards really are worth the effort.


NOTICES

WATER SPORTS TRIP TO CALA LLEVADO SPAIN 2014There is a trip meeting for all parents on 3 July at 6.30 p.m. in the Lecture Theatre

YEAR 9 MODERN FOREIGN LANGUAGES TRIPSThere is a meeting for parents and carers of pupils participating in the Modern Foreign Languages trips to France or Germany on Thursday 3 July at 6.45 p.m. The French trip meeting will take place in the Main School Hall and the German trip meeting in the Bowden room.

It would be helpful if you could bring your son’s passport (or a photocopy of the page with the personal details and any residency permits) and his EHIC (European Health Insurance Card) to the meeting. There will also be an opportunity to up-date your contact details. The EHIC can be applied for from the following website: https://www.ehic.org.uk/Internet/startAppli-cation.do.

To help with our organisation and the safety of your son it would also be helpful if parents/carers of boys who will require medication could bring a list to the meeting and the medication itself on the morning of departure.

I look forward to seeing as many of you who can make it at the meeting.

Wilson’s are one of the top maths schools in the country!

On Monday 23 June, four Wilson’s pupils went to the Lindley Hall of the Royal Horticultural Society in London for the day with Dr Cooper. This was not the gardening club but the year 8/9 maths team, competing against 79 other schools in the national final of Team Maths Challenge.

Their first task was to produce a poster about ‘Mathematical Billiards’ including considering triangular tables and then extending the mathematics to 3 dimensions. The team did well at solving the problems but were more challenged by the demands of producing an attractive poster. However, this was a stand alone round that did not contribute towards the main event.

The competition proper began with the ‘Group Circus’ round where they had to tackle eight different problems as a team, each in only

five minutes. They performed outstandingly on this round and scored 42/48 so they were one of the leading teams.

After lunch, the second round was the ‘Shuttle’ round where the an-swer to one problem is needed to complete the next problem. Here the team has to work in pairs and they did well but dropped more points. In the Crossnumber round, where in pairs they separately solved across and down number clues the team scored an amazing 100% and were back amongst the leaders. In the final race round they ran around the hall, solving problems and only dropping 6 more points.

So at the end of four rounds Wilson’s had scored 200 points out of a maximum of 226 and came seventh in the country. Congratulations to the team of Shavindra Jayasekera (9B) and Gabriel Cairns (9C) [standing] with Rajiv Guha (8S) and Jonathan Coombe (8H) [seated].

UKMT TEAM MATHS CHALLENGE NATIONAL FINAL


WORK RELATED LEARNING

WILSON’S SUMMER PARKRUN

SKILLS LONDON IS LOOKING FOR A NEW IMAGE.WHAT SHOULD IT BE?You are invited to come up with a new design for the branding of Skills London. We need new posters, leaflets, website design and logo - a whole new concept.

You can work on your own or as a team. The new design will need to encourage your fellow students and young people from across London to come along to Skills London, the biggest jobs and careers event in London.

Entrants will need to submit designs for a new logo, a poster or leaflet and the home page of a website. The winner will be announced at Skills London 2014 attended by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson.

The winner will receive an i-Pad Air* and their school or college will receive a voucher for £250 to spend at Prospects Education Resources.

35,000 JOBS AND APPRENTICESHIPS

+ 73 EMPLOYERS 182

EXHIBITORS+

= 250 PEOPLE

= 30,475 VISITORS ATTENDED SKILLS LONDON 2013

9,000 m2

EXHIBITION SPACE (EQUIVALENT TO 98

AVERAGE UK HOMES)

These are the ways we communicate to our audience and how we ensure thousands of young people turn up to the event:

1,747@skillslondon

58,7

90in

tera

ctio

ns

@MayorofLondon tweeted to

860,760 followers

120,000 letters posted into homes of Year 11, 12 and 13 students

Y11 Y12 Y1376,100 postcards distributed on DLR

UNDERGROUND

450 TUBE CAR PANEL POSTE

RS

465 POSTERS

CHOOSE COLOURS CAREFULLY

Make sure you can read the writing

clearly!

CHOOSE IMAGES CAREFULLY Make them fun but not childish, business-like but not boring!

DON’T “BORROW” ANOTHER DESIGN The judges have seen all the main ones and will soon spot a copy!

But when people ask ‘how big is the biggest jobs and careers event in London?’ we like to show them like this...

Skills London is London’s biggest annual jobs and careers event. Over 30,000 young people, their parents, families and teachers come along to find out about a huge range of careers, jobs, training, education and pathways to success. Employers, colleges, charities and training companies bring the world of work to life with interactive bite size skills activities and challenges. In 2013 there were over 35,000 jobs including apprenticeships available.

THE EVENT NAME AND LOGO

Your logo must include the name of

the event - ‘Skills London 2015’.

iPad

12:00Friday 3 October 2014

WIN AN

I-Pad AIR

HINTS AND TIPS

London’s biggest jobs and careers event

ExCeL London, 21 - 22 November 2014

CURRENT BRAND

Visit www.skillslondon2014.co.uk to

see the current branding.

DESIGN COMPETITION

WHAT TO DESIGNA logo, poster or lealfet, and design for a homepage of a website.

Summer Workshops at the RIBADesign Quest Summer School: What makes a great building?Architecture workshops for ages 7 to 11 We live in them, we work in them, we play in them – but what makes a great building? All workshops are inspired by the RIBA Stirling Prize, the world’s most significant award for architecture, and are led by professional educators. Materials included in the cost of the workshop unless otherwise indicated.

Great Big CityMonday, 4 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMThe nominations are in, and you’re the judge! Pick your favourite from this year’s Stirling Prize nominees and create your own prize-winning design before adding it to our Great Big City.

Size, Shape and SpaceTuesday, 5 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMWhat makes an ordinary building extraordinary? Learn from past winners of the RIBA Stirling Prize and create your own 3D sculptures exploring size, shape and space in architecture.

Animal ArchitectureWednesday, 6 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMPresenting…the Starling Prize! Beehives, birds’ nests, rabbit warrens, spider webs and ant hills - animals are great architects. Explore the architecture of different animals in a series of challenges before taking on a design-and-build challenge of your own!

Build a Science Adventure Centre…in just ONE DAY!Thursday, 7 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMInspired by the Stirling Prize-winning Magna Science Centre in Rotherham, you will work in teams to transform our workshop space into a science centre full of experiments and activities - in just one day!

Inside/OutsideFriday, 8 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMFind out how great buildings work from the inside out. Experiment with inside/outside architecture in your own cutaway collage design or shadow box.

All workshops £30* Book now at

architecture.com!

* £20 for those eligible for a free school lunch


Congratulations to last week’s winner, Samino Fernando, 7G, who correctly identified the image as Horse Guards Parade, off Whitehall in central London. He has previously won - will anyone beat him this week? Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct! On to this week’s competition:








WILSON'S SCHOOL









CLASSICS CLUB

Takes place on Wednesdays at 1.10 p.m. onwards in Room 5 (with free chocolate), or come earlier and eat lunch there. Relax and discuss something Classical in a relaxed informal atmo-sphere. You can come to listen or participate just as you wish. Volunteers to talk about anything vaguely Classical, perhaps to give a slideshow or show a video as well are most welcome. See Mr Lawson in Room 5.


CHESS CLUB



This club is for anyone in years 8 - 13 who enjoys the challenge of tough maths problems to solve. For the summer term maths challenge club is run for pupils in years 7 to 10. It will include looking at past Junior Maths Challenge and Olympiad questions, as well as interesting games and puzzles. The club takes place on Wednesday lunchtimes in F12.

MANDARIN CLUB

Mandarin club takes place on Wednesdays after school in Room 14.





NEW WILSON’S GeogSocAre you interested in all things Geographical? If so, then this is the place for you! Run by the Lower Sixth, every Tuesday Week A we will be exploring different geographical ideas from 1.15 to 1.50 p.m. in Room 24. Please come along to Rm 24 with your lunch every Tuesday, see you there!

HOTT CLUBHordes of the Things club meets in room 5 every Friday; miniatures war gaming with simple rules. Armies and advice provided (if want-ed). Terrain boards available. Do come early to get a good game in.



CLASSICS CLUB - WEDNESDAY 18 JUNE 2014

Last week’s Classics club saw Rishi Siddani from 9G discuss the traditional Olympian gods and their horrible relations with each other. There was some discussion of exactly who was Saturn and whether this was indeed the same god as Kronos. It is always worth learning the Greek and Roman names of the gods separately.

Free chocolate for the first person this week who can recite to Mr Lawson the names of all 12 Olympian gods in both the Greek and Roman versions.

Chocolate reward for the first peson to tell Mr Lawson the two slogans writ-tenon to the temple of Apollo at Delphi.


LONDON YOUTH GAMES JUDO 2014

Results from Wilson’s students this weekend at Crystal Palace National Sports Centre.

Carl Ntifo - Gold 4 wins +73kgNathaniel Aloshias - Gold 2 wins U55kgNisanth Mahalingam - Bronze w wins U73kgBen Flatt - 5th 1 win (lost to Nisanth for Bronze) U73kg.

All boys competed extremely hard and helped Sutton to 5th place out of 33 boroughs. Our congratulations to all of those who competed.

THE ERIC MASSEY SHIELD

The School 1st XI retained the Eric Massey Shield on Wednesday with an excellent victory over Old Wilsonians CC. Having won the toss, Captain Sam Wright chose to bat and top scored himself with 38 as the School posted 206 for 9 from 40 overs. Ally Osborn (37) and James Sheridan (31) also scored well, with an exciting late cameo from Curtis Rose (23 off 20 balls). Old Wilsonians’ reply stuttered, with a consistent fall of wickets leaving them 72 for 7 at drinks at 20 overs. Sam Wright had clean bowled 3 of the top 5, and finished with figures of 3 for 23 from 7 overs. An 8th wicket partnership of 62 gave Old Wilsonians a glimmer of hope, but debutante Vatsal Raina capped off a good bowling display by having both danger men caught out at deep mid on (Sam Wright and Alex Yee with good catches). Vatsal ended with impressive figures of 4 for 33 from his 8 overs.

Old Wilsonians were all out for 149 in the 36th over, leaving Sam Wright to collect the Shield from OW Life President Ian Forbes. Congratulations to all the team.

PLAYER OF THE WEEK - SAM WRIGHT

After Saturday’s games 2 players were in contention for the title of Player of the Week. Captain Sam Moody’s knock of 28 pushed his U14A side towards a competitive total from their 20 overs at Ling-field Notre Dame. He then picked up 3 for 11 as he guided his side towards a 17 run victory. While over at RGS Guildford, Hari Manoharan posted 31 not out to take the U13B to an outstanding 6 wicket victory at RGS Guildford. However, 1st XI Captain Sam Wright picks up the Player of the Week award as he led his team to the Eric Massey Shield. Batting at 3, his 38 from 39 balls was the highest of the match. He then bowled 3 top order batsmen on his way to figures of 3 for 23 from 7 overs. As opponents Old Wilsoni-ans tried to fight their way back into the game, Sam marshalled his troops well and caught their danger man at deep long on to all but end the contest. Well done Sam (who is pictured picking up the Eric Massey Shield from OW Life President Ian Forbes).

TEAM OF THE WEEK

The U13B’s pulled off another great result as they went to a strong RGS Guildford side on Saturday morning and upset the odds. Bowling first, the boys restricted RGS to 90 for 7 from their 20 overs, with Amaan Hassan and Nick Hicks taking 3 wickets a piece. Hari Manoharan then brought the team home, as we reached the target with 4 wickets down in the 18th over. The U13 B’s continue their excellent season with an 86% win record (see Dream League).

But Team of the Week goes to the 1st XI for the excellent retention of the Eric Massey Shield (see Report above). This was a great win for the side as they aim to increase their win ratio in their 4 remaining games of the season! Well done to all con-cerned.

CRICKET MEDALS

Pupils are reminded that medals are awarded for any player taking 3 wickets or more, or scoring 50 runs or more.

Please see Mr Parkinson to receive your medal.


CRICKET RESULTS

Wilson’s 1st XI 206 for 9 40 overs Sam Wright 38 Ally Osborn 37 James Sheridan 31Old Wilsonians CC 149 all out 36.4 oves Vatsal Raina 4 for 33 Sam Wright 3 for 23Resut: Wilson’s 1st XI won by 57 runs (Wilson’s retain the Eric Massey Shield)

Wilson’s U’12 A 54 all out 13.4 overs Glyn U’12 A 56 for 4 11.1 overs Kaamil Kaba 3 for 14Result : Glyn won by 6 wickets

Lingfield U’12 A 125 for 4 20 overs Wilson’s U’12 A 114 all out 19.1 overs Result: Lingfield won by 11 runs

Wilson’s U’12 B 113 for 4 20 overs Glyn U’12 B 65 for 8 20 overs Vaibhav Malhotra 3 for 9Result: Wilson’s U’12 B won by 48 runs

Lingfield U’12 B 113 for 2 20 overs Wilson’s U’12 B 99 for 9 20 overs Result: Lingfield U’12 B won by 14 runs

KCS Wimbledon U’12 D 88 all out 15.1 overs Raza Ali 45Wilson’s U’12 C 80 for 6 20 overs Result: KCS Wimbledon U’12 D won by 8 runs

KCS Wimbledon U’12 E 125 for 7 20 overs Wilson’s U’12 D 47 all out 13.5 overs Result: KCS Wimbledon U’12 E won by 78 runs

RGS Guildford U’13 A 146 for 20 overs Wilson’s U’13 A 68 all out Result: RGS Guildford U’13 A won by 78 runs RGS Guildford U’13 B 90 for 7 20 overs Amaan Hassan 3 for 14 Nick Hicks 3 for 16Wilson’s U’13 B 91 for 4 18.1 overs Hari Manoharan 31 not outResult: Wilson’s U’13 B won by 6 wickets

Wilson’s U14A 103 for 7 20 oversLingfield U’14 A 86 all out 19.3 overs Gautam Vyas 3 for 20 Sam Moody 3 for 11Result: Wilson’s U’14A won by 17 runs

Langley Park U’14 B 103 for 4 20 overs Wilson’s U’14 B 103 for 7 20 overs Result: Match Tied

Wilson’s U’15 A 123 all out 19.4 overs Anish Manjiani 36Lingfield U’15 A 81 all out 14.4 overs Alex Lane 3 for 2Result: Wilson’s U’15 A won by 42 runs



U13A 9 6 0 3 18 2.00 67%U15A 9 5 0 4 15 1.67 56%U14A 6 3 0 3 9 1.50 50%U12A 9 4 0 5 12 1.33 44%1st XI 7 2 0 5 6 0.86 29%

Total 40 20 0 20 60 1.50 50%


U13B 7 6 0 1 18 2.57 86%U14B 2 1 1 0 4 2.00 75%U15B 4 3 0 1 9 2.25 75%U12B 6 3 0 4 9 1.50 50%

Total 19 13 0 6 40 2 68%




SPORTS NEWS



CRICKET FIXTURES

Thurs 26 June U’12 A away at Reigate Grammar School, 12 pm start Reigate 6’s tournament

Fri 27 June- U’12 B at home to Langley Park, 2 pm start

Saturday 28 June U’12 A at home to Langley Park, 9:30 am start (astro pitch) U’13 A away at Langley Park (BR3 3SS), 9:30 am start U’13 B away at Langley Park (BR3 3SS), 9:30 am start (astro pitch) U’14 A at home to Langley Park, 9:30 am start U’15 A away at Langley Park (BR3 3SS), 9:30 am start

Tuesday 1July U’13 A away at Reigate Grammar School, 12 pm start- Reigate 6’s tournament.

Wedns. 2 JulY 1st XI at home to Sutton Grammar, 1 pm start (T20)

Friday 4 July- 1st Xi away at Langley Park (BR3 3SS), 5:30 pm start (T20)

U’12 B at home to Langley Park, 2 pm start

Year 7 Year 8JFS SGS WCGS Wilson's TOTAL JFS SGS WCGS Wilson's TOTAL

John Fisher 0 0 0 John Fisher 2 0 2Sutton Grammar 0 0 Sutton Grammar 0 0Wallington Boys 2 5th July 2 Wallington Boys 0 5th July 0Wilson's 2 2 5th July 4 Wilson's 2 2 5th July 4


John Fisher 2 0 2 John Fisher 2 2 4Sutton Grammar 2 2 Sutton Grammar 2 2Wallington Boys 0 5th July 0 Wallington Boys 0 0 0Wilson's 2 0 5th July 2 Wilson's 0 0 2 2

1st XI OverallJFS SGS WCGS Wilson's TOTAL JFS SGS WCGS Wilson's TOTAL

John Fisher 2 2 4 John Fisher 8 4 12Sutton Grammar 2nd July 0 Sutton Grammar 4 4Wallington Boys 0 0 0 Wallington Boys 2 0 2Wilson's 0 2nd July 2 2 Wilson's 6 4 4 14

Yet to be played2 Points for a win1 Point for a draw0 Points for a loss

If Points are level positions will be decided on head to head results

The Sutton Schools Cricket Cup 2014

The Waller Cup

The Senior Cup

The Parkinson Cup

The Cladish Cup

The Walden Cup The Vandoros Cup

Issue 303 4 July 2014Wilson’s Update

Dates for your Diary8 July Summer Concert (7.00 p.m.)9 July Wilson’s Used Uniform Shop (3.30 p.m.)11 July Sports Day (early finish for students at lunch time)14, 15 & 16 July End of Term Production15 July End of Term for Year 1017 July End of Term for Years 7, 8, 9 and 12

Dates for your Diary - Sept. 2014Please be aware of the date your son will start back in September. 2014 remembering that he will be in the year group above his current year group1 September Staff Only Day2 September Staff Only Day3 September Term begins for new Year 7, Year 8 and Year 135 September Term begins for Year 11 and Year 128 September Term begins for Year 9 and Year 10

WILSON’S TEACHERS PRESENT TO INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCELast week Mr Phillips, Mr McLaughlin and Mr Carew-Robinson flew to Dublin to take part in a two day European conference on Scientific Inquiry. The conference was part of the SAILS (Strategies for Assessment of Inquiry Learning in Science) project that has involved the teachers working closely with King’s College London as part of education research. As well as listening to some interesting talks from across Europe, they presented a poster on work they have carried out with King’s and ran a busy workshop session led by Mr Phillips. The workshop was very well received

and has hopefully gone on to help shape the practice of science teachers from across Europe! A personal highlight for Mr Phillips was being asked (at very short notice) to be filmed being inter-viewed about the work carried out, a task he completed with great distinction!

For more information about the SAILS project visit http://www.sails-project.eu/portal

Presenting our poster Mr Phillips presenting to camera

The UK SAILS team

Issue 303 4 July 2014

NOTICES

REMINDER - LIBRARY BOOKS

Just a reminder to everyone to bring back any Library books they may still have NEXT WEEK please. Mrs Cowell would like to get them all in well before the end of term. Mums, please check under the bed!Thanks everyone.

FIRST AIDER URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR CAR BOOT SALES

The PFA urgently need a first aider to volunteer to help out at our car boot sales. The dates are:Sunday 20 JulySunday 14 SeptemberSunday 12 OctoberIf you can help, please contact Beverley Barry at: [email protected]

THE SUMMER PARKRUN by Vou-Fri Sett

5 kilometres. 124 runners. 1 gruelling course. Roundshaw Downs Parkrun. Wilson’s runners were peppered black and gold among the participants. Teachers, students and family members, all adren-alin-rushed, were shifting impatiently at the starting line. I was one amongst that number. Of course no race can be run without a competent mathematician to keep time. So Wilson’s brought out none other than ‘Head of Maths’, Mr Alderson, to oversee the proceedings. As he clicked his timer, the race was on! The division between the experienced (able) and the beginners (willing) became increasingly apparent. I was in the latter division; with a strong will to strive towards my goal of completing the course.

This is where the philosophy of Parkrun is so positive. You see, although there are many runners around you, you ‘race and chase’ only your own personal time target. This takes the pressure off. After all, how hard can it be; just putting one foot in front of the other for about half-an-hour? In true Parkrun spirit, runners spurred each oth-er on and soon I had found my rhythm; Plod, plod, plod, plod, plod, plod, plod. As I approached the home strait, I felt a natural gear-shift. After all, who wants to be seen plodding... and even worse

caught on camera by Mr. Carew Robinson capturing all the action? With my running coach beside me (my brother), I pulled out the stops and went for a sprint finish as I was reminded about the cakes. Having collected my ‘position tag’ from Mr Walters and Mr Hudson, I hurriedly made my way to Mr Johnstone who was recording the results and exchanged the tag for a chocolate brownie. Chocolate Brownies over gold medals any day, thank you!

The first Old Wilsonian to cross the finish line was Tom Higgs with a staggering time of 19mins 37secs followed closely by Mr Ironside, 20mins 26 secs. It was clear they didn’t stop to smell the roses or pick the daisies.

A very special thanks must go to Mr Hudson and Mr Alderson for initiating the running club and all the staff, students and volunteers who make this weekly event so worthwhile. Yet again, giving up their time doing what teachers do, inside and outside of school, working on our brains and our muscles too! Do come and join us; all ages and abilities are welcome.


On Sunday 29 June Wilson’s School hosted the ECF U18 County Championships with teams from around the country competing to be national champions.

Surrey had more teams entered than any other county and sixteen Wilson’s pupils played for Surrey: Adam Taylor, Philip Knott, Tharshan Kuhendiran, Pavan Murali, Ryan Eaw, Vatsal Raina, Ryan Shankar, Vyas Raina, Sharumilan Ravindran, Alexander Nielsen, Isuru Jayasekera, Jake Eaw, Jonathan Coombe, Tony Lin, William Eade and Sam Kimber.

The competition consisted of each person playing two games of chess, each round lasting up to 2½ hours. The Surrey first team came third behind Sussex and Hertfordshire.

Congratulations to all who took part, but in particular to Alexander Nielsen (10G) and Isuru Jayasekera (9B) who won both their games.

COUNTY CHESS NEWS

Have you been to the Globe Theatre? No? Well, it’s time you went! For a fiver you can stand in the Yard as Groundlings, as my Year 10 class did on Monday 30 June to see our GCSE Shakespeare, Julius Caesar, performed up close and personal. There were a few drops of rain and an occasional plane finding its way to Heathrow but these were minor distractions from a production I found very engaging overall.

In the open air, actors have to project. In my opinion, the best per-formance was from the actor who portrayed Mark Antony – ‘Friends, Romans, countrymen . . .’ - with commitment and confidence. Two key figures, Cassius and Brutus, were also performed in a very clear way, although I feel that the actor who played Julius Caesar needed to project more convincingly to suit the nobility of his character.

The audience is challenged at the Globe by the demands of stand-ing and also by the high tempo of delivery. We knew the text from having studied it but it’s still not easy to follow Elizabethan English line for line!

It was an interesting production and an enjoyable evening for all. It was my first attendance at the Globe, and I was very pleased how seldom my concentration was swayed.

Incidentally, if you want to know where the writer John Green found the title for his popular book The Fault in Our Stars, you need to look at Julius Caesar!

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Summer Workshops at the RIBADesign Quest Summer School: What makes a great building?Architecture workshops for ages 7 to 11 We live in them, we work in them, we play in them – but what makes a great building? All workshops are inspired by the RIBA Stirling Prize, the world’s most significant award for architecture, and are led by professional educators. Materials included in the cost of the workshop unless otherwise indicated.

Great Big CityMonday, 4 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMThe nominations are in, and you’re the judge! Pick your favourite from this year’s Stirling Prize nominees and create your own prize-winning design before adding it to our Great Big City.

Size, Shape and SpaceTuesday, 5 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMWhat makes an ordinary building extraordinary? Learn from past winners of the RIBA Stirling Prize and create your own 3D sculptures exploring size, shape and space in architecture.

Animal ArchitectureWednesday, 6 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMPresenting…the Starling Prize! Beehives, birds’ nests, rabbit warrens, spider webs and ant hills - animals are great architects. Explore the architecture of different animals in a series of challenges before taking on a design-and-build challenge of your own!

Build a Science Adventure Centre…in just ONE DAY!Thursday, 7 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMInspired by the Stirling Prize-winning Magna Science Centre in Rotherham, you will work in teams to transform our workshop space into a science centre full of experiments and activities - in just one day!

Inside/OutsideFriday, 8 August 2014, 11:00AM to 4:00PMFind out how great buildings work from the inside out. Experiment with inside/outside architecture in your own cutaway collage design or shadow box.

All workshops £30* Book now at

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* £20 for those eligible for a free school lunch


Congratulations to last week’s winner, Callum Hockley, 7G, who correctly identified the image as Henman Hill/ Murray Mount at the Championships of Wimbledon, SW19, Wimbledon, London, England. Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct!

Onto this week’s competition! Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins a golden ticket! Get thinking.







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CLASSICS CLUBTakes place on Wednesdays at 1.10 p.m. onwards in Room 5 (with free chocolate), or come earlier and eat lunch there. Relax and discuss something Classical in a relaxed informal atmo-sphere. You can come to listen or participate just as you wish. Volunteers to talk about anything vaguely Classical, perhaps to give a slideshow or show a video as well are most welcome. See Mr Lawson in Room 5. The final Classics club of the year will be Wednesday 9 July.

Anyone needing help with Latin or Classics should go to Room 5 on Tuesday and Thursday lunchtimes for the general Latin and Greek help club. Year 10 students are available to help out. The final Latin help club of the year will be next Thursay, 10 July.


MATHS CHALLENGE CLUBThis club is for anyone in years 8 - 13 who enjoys the challenge of tough maths problems to solve. For the summer term maths challenge club is run for pupils in years 7 to 10. It will include looking at past Junior Maths Challenge and Olympiad questions, as well as interesting games and puzzles. The club takes place on Wednesday lunchtimes in F12.

MANDARIN CLUBMandarin club takes place on Wednesdays after school in Room 14.





HOTT CLUBHordes of the Things club meets in room 5 every Friday; miniatures war gaming with simple rules. Armies and advice provided (if want-ed). Terrain boards available. Do come early to get a good game in.The final HOTT club of the year will be this Friday, 4 July.



CLASSICS CHALLENGE

Free chocolate for the first person this week who can identify the Roman emperor in the attached photo. Answers to Mr Lawson please.


BOROUGH SPORTS ATHLETICS 2014

A very hot day saw 50 boys from Wilson’s take part in this year’s Borough Athletics championships.

The competition was extremely strong and it was always going to be a challenge to maintain our position of last year, which was second overall. Boys were missing at the Wimbledon championships and other unforeseen circumstances meant that some boys had to step up and take part in events that were not their number one choice.

The year 7 team were outstanding, being placed second overall and with many fine performances and many second places. Callum Hockley missed out on winning by the width of a vest in the 300metres, which was the race of the day. Rehan Gamage became borough champion in the shot putt and also ran very well in the relay.

The year 8 team had a tough day and individual athletes lost a number of events by fractions, often in the last jump or throw of the competitions. The highlight for them was Lloyd Smith winning the 800 metres in convincing style.

The year 9 team competed very well but again had a hard day. The highlight was Michael Ojetunde winning the discus.

In the year 10 competition an excellent sec-ond place overall was achieved. Rees Senior won the shot putt and many second places.

In the final analysis Wilson’s maintained their overall place of second in the Bor-ough, which was an excellent result.There are too many boys to mention indi-vidually, but they all performed well and the many second and third places achieved were very pleasing. Well done to all.

ROTARY SPORTS ATHLETICS - CRYSTAL PALACE

On Sunday 12 boys from Wilson’s, took part in the Rotary Sports at Crystal Palace National sports centre. (6 junior boys, 6 inter boys)Between them they had to cover many different events It was a long day and they competed against a large number of inner Lon-don schools. There were many highlights. In the inter boys discus we were placed 1st, 2nd and 3rd.

Nathan Tanner won the 300m for inter boys , Lloyd Smith won the 300m for junior boys, Rees Senior won the shot putt, Tobi Ademiju won the 100metres and the shot putt for junior boys. Joseph Chrys-ostomou won the inter boys discus.

Again there were many second and third places achieved and a second place overall in both boys age groups. This was a great effort by the boys who gave up their Sunday to take part with such success on a cold wet day.

A big thanks to the many parents who also braved the cold and supported the boys right through the day.


WILSON’S U14 FUTSAL

Wilson’s U14’s came 6th in the National Futsal Finals. Ted St.Clair-Gray, Tolu Soretire, Michael Ojetunde, Sam Moody, Jonathan Chen, Caleb Nelson and Piralash Pathmanathan all gave up their weekend to travel up to Birmingham to play in the National Futsal Centre. In the group stage they were the only team in the compe-tition not to lose a game yet it was not enough to progress to the semi-final. The opening game against The Howard School in Kent was a tight game but Jon Chen managed to drive through the heart of their defence and sneak a low driven shot into the bottom corner; a well worked corner made it 2-0 which seemed very com-fortable until the opposition reverted to the long ball tactics which are unusual in Futsal to pull two late scrappy goals. This team went on to win the competition after relying on Wilson’s to draw our last game to progress into the semi-final. It shows that Wilson’s are not far away from being National champions in Futsal. I hope the boys continue working hard and come back stronger next year.

WILSON’S U12 FUTSAL

Congratulations to Callum Hockley and Leon Kapszewicz for rep-resenting Surrey Schools at the National Futsal Finals. In the group stages the team came 2nd to reach the semi-final and play a Futsal academy in the semi-final. This proved to be an easy fixture coming out as 4-0 winners and progressing to the final where they played the winners of their league. In the final there was a huge crowd and fantastic atmosphere. The FA dignitaries along with the England futsal manager were there to watch. Leon scored 2 goals in the final to make it 1-0 and 2-1 with 2 minutes remaining. However, the game was won by a Aston Villa superstar who beat 3 players and the goal keeper to make it 2-2 followed shortly with another solo effort to complete his hat trick. The final score was 3-2 to Walsall Futsal academy who now go on to represent England in Valencia at the Futsal Youth World Cup.

Shanthosh Suganthan scored an excellent 37 not out to take the U’14 A’s to a convincing 7 wicket win over Langley Park with 3 overs to spare.

However, this week’s Player of the Week is Daniel Moore. Daniel (Year 10) was making his 1st XI Debut against Sutton Grammar on Wednesday. Coming in at number 6 with the team struggling to chase 98 to win from the 20 overs, Daniel produced an outstand-ing innings to score 41 not out from 35 balls. He hit the winning runs off the penultimate ball to record an excellent victory for an extremely young 1st XI side. Well done Daniel.

CRICKET PLAYER OF THE WEEK - DANIEL MOORE REIGATE 6’s - CRICKET

Both the U’12 A’s and U’13 A’s competed in the Reigate 6’s tournament last week, with both teams sharing exactly the same results! They both came 2nd in their group having won the opening game but lost the following one. This placed them in the Plate Competition, and 2 wins were recorded by both teams to move into the Plate Final. However, both sides eventually lost in their respective Finals to leave us empty handed. Overall this was a good achievement by the boys who played with good skill and spirit.


CRICKET RESULTS

Sutton Grammar 1st XI 97 for 5 20 overs Wilson’s 1st XI 100 for 7 19.5 overs Daniel Moore 41 not outResut: Wilson’s 1st XI won by 3 wickets (Sutton League)

Wilson’s U’12 A 63 for 8 20 overs Langley Park U’12 A 64 for 1 9.1 overs Result : Langley Park won by 9 wickets

Langley Park U’14A 81 for 9 20 overs Wilson’s U’14 A 82 for 3 16.4 overs Shantosh Suganthan 37 not out Result: Wilson’s won by 7 wickets

A very young 1st XI pulled off a great win against Sutton Grammar in the Sutton League.

However, Team of the Week goes to the U’14 A’s. Having lost in the last 2 years to a strong Langley Park team and missing Captain Sam Moody to the Futsal Competition, the boys played excellently to record a comfortable 7 wicket victory. The boys played with good energy in the field, all bowlers bowled well and shared the wickets, and then a mature, unbeaten 4th wicket partnership of 54 from 67 balls from Daniel Brown and Shanthosh Suganthan guided the side to victory.

Pictured are Finian Barke-Asuni and Achal Srivastav whose com-bined leadership helped the boys to the win. Well done all.

CRICKET TEAM OF THE WEEK

Friday 4 July 1st XI away at Langley Park (BR3 3SS), 5:30 pm start (T20)

Saturday 5 July U’12 A away to Wallington County Grammar School 9:30 am start (Sutton League) U’13 A home to Wallington County Grammar School 9.30 am start on astro wicket (sutton League) U’14 A at home to Wallington County Grammar School 9:30 am start U’15 B away at Reigate Grammar (RH2 8PN), 9:30 am start

Wedns. 9 July 1st XI T20 tournament at John Fisher, 9.30 am start

Good luck to the U’12’s, U’13’s and U’14’s in their Sutton League games against Wallington this Saturday. Victories for the U’12 and U’13 teams will secure them the Sutton League title with 100% records. The U’13’s are hoping to retain the title they won last year. The U’14’s can still win the League if other results fall in our favour.

CRICKET FIXTURES


SPORTS NEWS




John Fisher 0 0 0 John Fisher 2 0 2Sutton Grammar 0 0 Sutton Grammar 0 0Wallington Boys 2 5th July 2 Wallington Boys 0 5th July 0Wilson's 2 2 5th July 4 Wilson's 2 2 5th July 4


John Fisher 2 0 2 John Fisher 2 2 4Sutton Grammar 2 2 Sutton Grammar 2 2Wallington Boys 0 5th July 0 Wallington Boys 0 0 0Wilson's 2 0 5th July 2 Wilson's 0 0 2 2


John Fisher 2 2 4 John Fisher 8 4 12Sutton Grammar 0 0 Sutton Grammar 4 4Wallington Boys 0 0 0 Wallington Boys 2 0 2Wilson's 0 2 2 4 Wilson's 6 6 4 16




The Waller Cup

The Senior Cup

The Parkinson Cup

The Cladish Cup



U13A 9 6 0 3 18 2.00 67%U15A 9 5 0 4 15 1.67 56%U14A 7 4 0 3 12 1.71 57%U12A 10 4 0 6 12 1.20 40%1st XI 8 3 0 5 9 1.13 38%

Total 43 22 0 21 66 1.53 51%


U13B 7 6 0 1 18 2.57 86%U14B 2 1 1 0 4 2.00 75%U15B 4 3 0 1 9 2.25 75%U12B 8 3 0 5 9 1.13 38%

Total 21 13 0 7 40 2 62%



Issue 304 11 July 2014Wilson’s Update

Dates for your Diary14, 15 & 16 July End of Term Production15 July End of Term for Year 1017 July End of Term for Years 7, 8, 9 and 12

Dates for your Diary - Sept. 2014Please be aware of the date your son will start back in September. 2014 remembering that he will be in the year group above his current year group1 September Staff Only Day2 September Staff Only Day3 September Term begins for new Year 7, Year 8 and Year 135 September Term begins for Year 11 and Year 128 September Term begins for Year 9 and Year 10

STUDENTS VISIT CORPUS CHRISTI COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGEStudents applying to read English, History or Philosophy were recently treated to an intensive undergraduate style course, whilst resident at Corpus Christi College Cambridge. Dr. Hemp (Philoso-phy), Dr. Johnstone (English) and Mr. Cole (History) put the boys through their paces with heady questions relating to the method-ological difficulties of researching emotion in Early Modern English villages, Shakespeare’s representation of ‘the other’ and the concept of time.

After two and a half of days of serious and intensive lectures and seminars, the boys worked late into the final night producing their essays for scrutiny in a 1-1 supervision the next day. All performed well, but arrived back at King’s Cross ready for the weekend. Thanks to Matthew Hasler (Girton, 2010) and Marcus Bird (OW, 2013) for assisting with this programme.

HISTORYPHILOSOPHY

HISTORY


NOTICES

REMINDER - LIBRARY BOOKSJust a reminder to everyone to bring back any Library books they may still have NEXT WEEK please. Mrs Cowell would like to get them all in well before the end of term. Mums, please check under the bed!Thanks everyone.

FIRST AIDER URGENTLY REQUIRED FOR CAR BOOT SALESThe PFA urgently need a first aider to volunteer to help out at our car boot sales. The dates are:

Sunday 20 JulySunday 14 SeptemberSunday 12 OctoberIf you can help, please contact Beverley Barry at: [email protected]

LOST PROPERTYBefore we break up for the summer it would be good if all boys could be reminded to check lost property for any missing items. There are many unnamed items such as cricket jumpers, white shirts and shoes sitting in lost property. These items will all be disposed of over the summer holidays if they are not claimed by the end of July.

On Friday 4 July, the Wilson’s Languages Spelling Bee team: Arenkan Kularaj (7C), Neel Maniar (7B) and Kiruba Jegatheesan (7H) travelled to Cambridge for the National Finals of the Languages Spelling Bee. The competition took place at the Anglia Ruskin University and about 100 pupils from 50 schools from all over the country made the journey for the event.

Arenkan and Neel competed in the German competition and Kiruba in the French competition. The boys all successfully spelt more than 15 words in 1 minute from the 200 words they had to learn for the competition. Unfortunately, after a nail biting and really tough 1st round the boys did not make it to the final.

Well done to Arenkan, Neel and Kiruba for making it through to the National Finals. The boys will now be coaching the future Year 7s for the competition.

NATIONAL FINALS OF THE LANGUAGES SPELLING

JUNIOR MATHS OLYMPIAD 2014We have seen some fantastic results for the Junior Maths Olympiad!Congratulations to Jonathan Coombe (8H) and Akash Gupta (8C) for gaining a Distinction and Bronze Medal, and to Andy Deng (7C) for gaining a distinction. Special congratulations to Kit Foulkes (8S) for gaining a Distinction and Silver Medal. This places Kit in the top 100

pupils at this age group in the UK. The other four pupils who also sat the Olympiad all did creditably, in particular Rubaiyat Khondaker (7G) was within a couple of marks of gaining a distinction.

Well done to all those who qualified for this prestigious contest.

How good are your non-native language skills?

If you’re going on holiday somewhere where they speak a lan-guage which you do not speak as a native then record a conversation in that language – a video or audio file will suffice – send it to: [email protected]. There will be a prize for the most convincing recording.

MFL COMPETITION


Wilson’s First Chess Team completed another successful year by winning the National Plate tournament played at Uppingham School on 3 and 4 July.

Fortunately the drive to Uppingham went smoothly and having settled into the dormitories the team were ready for their first match on Thursday afternoon. In the semi-final Wilson’s were drawn against Torquay Boys’ Grammar School. Each game was played over 4 hours, and after 2 hours play the only result was a draw by Arun Appulingam on bottom board. However over the next hour first Ryan Eaw and then Tharshan Kuhendiran won, so that when Philip Knott won we knew we had qualified for the final. Finally Adam Taylor won and Pavan Murali drew, so we had won by the convincing margin of 5 – 1.

After the buffet dinner the annual football match with Manchester Grammar School took place until it was too dark for the ball to be seen.

After breakfast the next morning, and packing our bags, it was time for the final. Our opponents were a very strong QE Barnet team who had been the losing plate finalists last year. Things did not start well when Ryan Shankar lost but then Ryan Eaw found a winning sacrifice to put us back on level terms. This was followed by Pavan Murali finding a winning attack and we were leading 2 – 1. The other three matches went for almost the full time until first Tharshan Kuhendiran and then Philip Knott won so despite Adam Taylor losing we had won the match 4 – 2.

This is the third time that Wilson’s have won the National plate which is actually a chess board as shown in the photograph.

WILSON’S CHESS TEAM WIN NATIONAL PLATE COMPETITION

On Sunday 6 July the CCF RAF section’s Air Squadron Trophy team travelled to the Shuttleworth Collection aerodrome at Old Warden to attend the Air Squadron Day. After an early start, the team arrived at 10.00 a.m. to quickly rehearse the award ceremony, cele-brating the 3rd place success of the team – and the success of the second and first place teams - at the competition in February.

After the ceremony , where CWO Anandakumar achieved the Geoffrey de Havilland Flying Foundation medal for achieve-ment– attended by VIPs such as the Commandant Air Cadets, Air Commodore McCafferty – the team had a buffet lunch provided by the Air Squadron before getting the chance to enjoy the spoils of their success, an afternoon of flying in the numerous aircraft owned by members of the Air Squadron. All cadets got at least two flights, with most managing to get three or four, including some in a luxury business jet and others managing to take the controls of a helicopter for themselves! After enjoying the day, the team resolved to do even better in the competition next year so they could return again, this time as the victors.

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THINK YOU’RE A HISTORY GENIUS?

THINK YOU’RE BRITAIN’S YOUNG HISTORIAN OF THE YEAR 2014?

Prove it! Enter the History Department’s essay writing competitions. Can I write my essay on anything? No. There are three topics that you can choose from - but they are very broad. You should choose one of three topics:

1) Any aspect of British involvement in the Second World War. (KS3 & GCSE/A Level categories)

OR 2) Any aspect of the First World War. (KS3 only)

OR 3) Work on any local history theme. (KS3 & A Level categories)

What should my question be? You should formulate a question which begins with one of the following stems:

How important was…? To what extent did…? How significant was…? How successful was…? “Statement” How valid is this point of view?

It should be an issue about which there is debate. You should check the title with your History teacher, although he will not be able to mark drafts / give further guidance after you have discussed the question. Where does the National bit come in?

• The winning entry for topic one will be submitted as the Wilson’s entry for the national Young Historian competition (Spirit of Normandy Trust Prize). It will be published on the school website and there will be a nominal prize!

• The winning entry for topic two will be submitted as the Wilson’s entry for the national Young Historian competition (Key Stage 3 World War 1 Prize). It will be published on the school website and there will be a nominal prize!

• The winning entry for topic three will be submitted as the Wilson’s entry for the national Young Historian competition (Local History Prize). It will be published on the school website and there will be a nominal prize!

Closing date? The closing date is Monday 14th July 2014 and no entries will be accepted after this point. Questions? Speak to Mr. Englefield or your History teacher.



The question for the 2014 YGOTY competition is:

‘How can geography help you?’

Pupils are asked to relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. The significance of both human and physical geography could be considered at a variety of different levels. Pupils should demonstrate how geography can support their everyday lives, improve their understanding of the world’s people, places and environments and help to prepare them for life beyond school.

We want to hear how geography, be it the knowledge young people learn, the understanding they gain, or skills they develop, helps them in different aspects of their lives. This help might be at many different levels:

At school At home with your family When you travel and go on holidays When you think about current events at home or abroad Whether it will help you with further study, perhaps at university Or lead to a particular career you would like to do

We are interested in answers which might look at both the serious and the fun sides of geography and particularly want to see how entrants can relate the value of geography to a number of different settings. We welcome applications which, as appropriate for the age range, recognise the value of both human and physical geography.

For the all categories appropriate and accurate geographical vocabulary should be used and we will provide additional credit for entries which use primary data collected by the student, alongside secondary data.

The competition has four categories: 9-11(Key Stage Two), 11-14 (Key Stage Three), 14-16 (GCSE) and 16-18 (A Level students).

Closing date The deadline for entries to both the YGOTY competition will be 17.00 Friday 24 October 2014. The Society regrets that it is unable to acknowledge receipt of entries, return entries or provide feedback on entries and the decision of the Society’s judges are final.

The winners will receive their prizes at a special ceremony at the Society’s headquarters in Kensington, London on Friday 28th November 2014.


BEAUTY AND THE BEASTMonday 14, Tuesday 15 and Wednesday 16 July at 7.30 p.m. Tickets are now on sale via ParentMail2 for the Summer Concert and Jazz Evening and the Junior Production. These events are always extremely popular and usually sell out in advance of the evening. Please book your tickets now to avoid disappointment!


The Wilson’s Vocal Evening is an annual event which takes place in the Bowden Room and showcases all the students who have sing-ing lessons each week with Mr Hann.

Wednesday evening saw 15 boys sing a huge variety of music from Schubert to Gershwin. All the boys sung to an incredibly high standard and produced outstanding performances. Unfortunate-ly, a couple of boys were too poorly to perform, but luckily Jack Robertson and Satchit Srikanth were able to step in and rescue the evening to ensure the audience heard the full programme! All the boys sung together to bring the evening to a close with ‘Do you Hear the People Sing’ and Four Country Dances in One’.

Particular thanks to Mr Hann for coaching all the boys and organis-ing the evening, and to Mr Clayden and Mr Lissimore for their piano accompaniments and support. Sadly it was the last performance at Wilson’s for Jack and Satchit as they are going off to University next term. We’ll all miss them, but wish them both good luck for the future.

VOCAL EVENING


Last Tuesday the Music Department hosted its final concert of the year to a packed-out Main Hall. Over 100 boys played and sang together to create another spectacular evening enjoyed by parents, staff and friends. The Junior Choir and Cambiata, directed by Mr Christopher Hann, treated us all to memorable renditions of ‘Swing Low Sweet Chariot’, ‘You’ll Never Walk Alone’ and ‘Happy’ – a really infectious tune from the film Despicable Me 2.The Oboe Ensemble continued the upbeat feel of the evening with several pieces including ‘Amarillo’ which had the audience dancing in their seats!

The Junior Orchestra played another tune we all know so well - the main theme from Harry Potter ‘Hedwig’s Theme’. Lady Gaga also featured with a ‘Dance Remix’ which the Wind Band enjoyed playing almost as much as we enjoyed listening to them!The Junior, Intermediate and Senior Jazz Bands rounded off the evening playing a series of well-known standards under the careful direction of Mr Ashworth.Many thanks to all the students, parents, staff and friends of the school who supported the evening, and particularly to Mr Clayden, who organised the whole event.

WILSON’S SUMMER CONCERT AND JAZZ EVENING




MATHS CHALLENGE CLUBThis club is for anyone in years 8 - 13 who enjoys the challenge of tough maths problems to solve. For the summer term maths challenge club is run for pupils in years 7 to 10. It will include looking at past Junior Maths Challenge and Olympiad questions, as well as interesting games and puzzles. The club takes place on Wednesday lunchtimes in F12.

MANDARIN CLUBMandarin club takes place on Wednesdays after school in Room 14.







Congratulations to last week’s winner, Brian Lee, 8B, who correctly identified the image as The Brooklyn Bridge, New York, USA. Please come and collect your Golden Ticket from Mr Sturt in Rm 24. Congratulations to all who got this correct!

Onto this week’s competition! Where in the world is this (include the name of the landmark and the name of the town and country)? Simply email the information to ADS@... and the first person with the correct answer wins a golden ticket! Get thinking.

HISTORY AND GEOGRAPHY HOMEWORK SUPPORT - 1.10 - 1.50 P.M.Wed A: C1 Fri A: C1 Mon B: C1 Thurs B: C1



WIMBLEDON BALL BOYS

As we approach the end of the Wimbledon Championships, the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club were pleased to send us a picture of our Ball Boys.

We were informed that they have been excellent so far and the Wimbledon Lawn Tennis Club were extremely proud of their achievements, as are the school. Congratulations to all of them on being selected for this prestigious event and we hope they enjoyed the tournament.

U13 TENNIS

Year U13’s lost 1-5 in games vs. Ewell Castle (Tennis Academy) in the Semi-final of the Surrey Cup on Friday 4 July at Nuffield Health Centre in Cheam.

Top performer this season for U13’s is Callum Furmidge (pictured right) – year 7 who has been seeded number 2 (LTA rating 9.1) and finished the season undefeated in all competitions.

STAFF SPORTS

After beating the 1st XI Football leavers, staff spirits were high go-ing into the annual golf grudge match v Sutton Grammar staff, held at Mitcham golf club for the eighth successive year. The wins since 2007 total 4-3 to Sutton so it was crucial that Wilson’s staff were on top form to regain the trophy and pull the match back making us all square. The first pair included an ex-pupil and our current golf pro Mr Shaw! Needless to say we won this battle, although it was tight, 2 up and 1 left to play. Mr Simmons, Mr Parkinson and Mr Poole all contributed yet it was left to Mr Carew-Robinson and Mr Molyneux

who have been undefeated as a pair since 2010, to win the last match and regain the trophy to the delight of our eagerly awaiting colleagues sat around the 18th green. It was a great evening, the score is now 4-4 and we are looking forward to next year to finally take the lead after being 4-0 down.

SAINSBURY’S VOUCHERS

We were delighted with the response from staff, students and their parents who donated their Sainsburys vouchers to the school. We collected 10,882 vouchers which bought nearly £400 worth of sports equipment for the PE department.

Thank you very much.


A number of the 1st XI produced performances on Wednesday (9th) in the John Fisher T20 Cup to give themselves a chance of picking up the Player of the Week (please see 1st XI write up). How-ever, Nathan Mitchell of the U’13 A’s wins Player of the Week for his contribution with both bat and ball. Needing a win to retain the Sutton Cup, Wilson’s U’13 A bowled first and restricted Wallington to 71 for 7 from their 20 overs, with Nathan taking 3 wickets for just 13 runs. He then top scored with 31 not out to lead the team to a comfortable 7 wicket victory within just 12.2 overs. Congratu-lations to Nathan.

CRICKET PLAYER OF THE WEEK - Nathan Mitchell

1st £72.50 Patricia Anang 2nd £43.50 Lily Pang3rd £29.00 Jackie Lane


If you would like to join the 100 club with the possibility of winning a prize each month you can obtain an application form by emailing the PFA:[email protected] or see Wilson’s website under PFA.

JULY PFA 100 CLUB DRAW WINNERS


CRICKET RESULTS

Wilson’s Cricket Results 2014 Langley Park 1st XI 148 for 8 20 overs Wilson’s 1st XI 96 for 9 19.5 overs Daniel Moore 41 not outResult : Langley Park 1st XI won by 52 runs Wilson’s 1st XI 136 for 6 20 overs James Smith 50Ewell Castle 1st XI 86 for 9 20 overs Result : Wilson’s 1st XI won by 50 runs (John Fisher T20 Cup Semi Final) Wilson’s 1st XI 147 for 5 20 overs Sam Wright 48 Ally Osborn 42 not outJudd 1st XI 101 all out 19.4 overs Curtis Rose 3 for 9 Nathan Heal 3 for 16Result: Wilson’s 1st XI won by 46 runs (John Fisher T20 Cup Final) Wilson’s U’14 A 83 for 8 20 overs Achal Srivastav 33 not outWallington U’14 A 84 for 6 19 overs Riddu Ravindran 4 for 19Result : Wallington won by 4 wickets (Sutton League)

Wallington U’13 A 71 for 7 20 overs Nathan Mitchell 3 for 13Wilson’s U’13 A 72 for 3 12.2 overs Nathan Mitchell 31 not outResult : Wilson’s U’13 A won by 7 wickets (Sutton League) Wallington U’12 A 94 for 3 16 overs Wilson’s U’12 A 68 for 8 16 overs Result : Wallington won by 26 runs (Sutton League) Wilson’s U’15 B 143 for 5 20 overs Jai Kumar 37RGS Guildford 67 all out 67 all out 18 overs Result : Wilson’s U’15 B won by 76 runs

The Team of the Week is shared this week between the U’13 A and 1st XI! The U’13 A cruised to a 7 wicket victory against Wallington to retain the Sutton Cup, and indeed keep their 100% record in their 2 years in the Competition (6 wins out of 6). They also finish the season top of the First Division Dream League with a 70% win record. Perhaps their success is due to being kept on their toes by the U’13 B’s, who topped the Second Division of the Dream League with an 86% win record. Congratulations to the U’13 A’s. The 1st XI signed off the season with an excellent win in the John Fisher T20 Cup, with the Upper 6th players, taking part in their last games for the school, all contributing to the win. Playing the semi-final against Ewell Castle at home in the morning, Wilson’s scored 136 for 6, with James Smith (U6th) scoring an excellent 50 from 41 balls. Ewell Castle were then restricted to 86 for 9 from their 20 overs, with a good all round contribution from the bowlers.Moving over to John Fisher to play the Final against Judd (who had beaten the hosts in the Semi), Wilson’s batted first again, and posted a very competitive 147 for 5. This was largely down to outstanding innings from U6th Leavers Sam Wright (48) and Ally Osborn (42 not out from just 25 balls). Again looking good with the ball and in the field, Judd were never really up with the chase, and were eventually bowled out in the final over for 101. Curtis Rose (Year 11) had the pick of the figures with 3 for 9 from his 4 overs, including 2 from his last 2 balls to leave him on a hat-trick in the 1st game of the season next year! Fittingly, this season’s 1st XI Captain Sam Wright picked up a wicket with his final ball for the School. Amazingly, so did U6th Leaver Nathan Heal who took 3 in the last over of the game, including 2 from his last 2 balls for the School to leave him on an agonising hat-trick!This 4 team tournament victory was a great way to end the season for the 1st XI, and indeed for those U6th Leavers. I would like to thank Sam Wright, Ben Flook, Nathan Heal, Ally Osborn, Luca Picciano, James Smith, and Richard Rose for their contribution to the 1st XI, and indeed all those that played Junior Cricket throughout their time at the School.

CRICKET TEAM OF THE WEEK

Saturday 12 th July - Wilson’s Twelve 12 cup

Please see teams and details. Mr Parkinson will be cooking a BBQ!

Good Luck to all Cricketers playing this week, Mr ParkinsonWilson’s Cricket Medals-Pupils are reminded that medals are awarded for any player taking 3 wickets or more, or scoring 50 runs or more. Please see Mr Parkinson to receive your medal.

CRICKET FIXTURES


SPORTS NEWS




John Fisher 0 0 0 0 John Fisher 0 2 0 2Sutton Grammar 0 0 0 0 Sutton Grammar 0 0 0 0Wallington Boys 2 0 2 4 Wallington Boys 0 0 0 0Wilson's 2 2 0 4 Wilson's 2 2 2 6








The Waller Cup

The Senior Cup

The Parkinson Cup

The Cladish Cup



U13A 10 7 0 3 21 2.10 70%U15A 9 5 0 4 15 1.67 56%U14A 8 4 0 4 12 1.50 50%1st XI 11 5 0 6 15 1.36 45%U12A 11 4 0 7 12 1.09 36%

Total 49 25 0 24 75 1.53 51%


U13B 7 6 0 1 18 2.57 86%U15B 5 4 0 1 12 2.40 80%U14B 2 1 1 0 4 2.00 75%U12B 8 3 0 5 9 1.13 38%

Total 22 14 0 7 43 2 64%




THE 2014 WILSON’S TWELVE12 CUP!SATURDAY 12th JULY

• IWILLBERUNNINGABBQASANENDOFCRICKETSEASONCELEBRATION! PLEASE BRING £2 AND I WILL COLLECT IT AT THE START OF THE MORNING. THIS £2 GETS YOU A BURGER AND CAN OF DRINK.• YOUNEEDTOBEATSCHOOLAT8:20AMFORAPROMPT9AMSTART.• YOUWILLBEFINISHEDBYAPPROX.12:30PM.• YOUWILLPLAYASEMI-FINAL,AND3/4thPLACEPLAY-OFFORFINAL.• FURTHERRULESANDSTRUCTUREWILLBEPOSTEDUP.• PRIZESUPFORGRABSFOR-WINNINGTEAM,MANOFTHEMATCH,PLAYEROFTHETOURNA MENT, AND BEST PLAYER OF EACH TEAM.

TEAMS:

YR. SURREY KENT MIDDLESEX SUSSEX BROWNCAPS SPITFIRES CRUSADERS SHARKS 10 Carr Shelton Moore © Kellingley © 10 Pal Hoare (wk) Norman Page 10 Manjiani Ford Lane Hussain 9 Moody © Srivastav © B-Asuni (wk) Suganthan (wk) 9 Ravindran Thuraisingham Vyas Santhankumar 9 Brown (wk) Muhammad Sarker Ali 8 Exelby Regan © Jarrold © Hicks, W (wk) 8 Patel, V Rutter Sivakumar Prabhakaran 8 Mitchell Anthony Ulagentharan (wk) Boselius 7 Furmidge © Hockley (wk) Hasan Brown © 7 Rupal (wk) Gamage Srishangar Joy Angelo 7 Kaba Perkin Christy-Parker Craik

RESERVES:

10 Suseelan Jeevan Sanderson Amal Patel9 Iyengar Simpson Raguseelan Roberts8 Raval Richards Hicks, N Manoharan7 Jain Swaleh Fashori Venkatakrishnan

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