Category: Pupil Achievements, Academic
Congratulations to Timothy Oliver (C1 Re) on winning first prize for the Under 15 category of the annual Wills Writing Awards for a short story titled Horse-Riding With No Legs. The Martin Wills Memorial Trust, is a UK registered charity which promotes annual awards for creative writing by young... More »
Category: Speakers
On Tuesday 16 April the Master welcomed Lord Adonis, President of the Independent Academies Association and former Minister for Schools and Secretary of State for Transport, to the College as part of the Common Room training day at the start of the Summer Term. We were joined by Sir Hayden... More »
The Open 1XI Football tour to Barcelona in the first week of the holidays was a great success. Three fixtures were played over five days and all were well matched. As expected, our Spanish opponents were skilful, quick and strong but on the back of an excellent season in the Mercian League we were... More »
Category: Pupil Achievements, Sport
On Thursday 21st March, Tom Durell (C1 U6) and Josh Meyer (PR L6) competed as part of the British Schools Smallbore Rifle Team in the 29th ISAS (Internationaler Saisonauftakt der Sportschützen) in Dortmund, Germany. This is a major international indoor shooting competition, involving 7 days of... More »
Category: Pupil Achievements
Lower Sixth Results The following deserve congratulations for their performances. Medals have been awarded on marks scored (in order). All will receive Certificates and Richard Simon a prize. GoldRichard Simon (LI) SilverAlex Kendall (SU)Jessica Charlwood (MM)Cameron Taylor (C2)Kiran... More »
Category: Speakers
The History Department was delighted to welcome John Julius Norwich to its Upper School History Society in February. Viscount Norwich spoke on the papacy, the subject of his recent book, The Popes: A History. He focussed particularly on the early, medieval and early modern Church, bringing... More »
Category: Trips
The first exchange between Remove pupils from Marlborough College Malaysia and Marlborough College took place this term, representing an expansion of our educational provision in its widest sense. One pupil described the aims of the exchange as 'the extension of knowledge, compassion for people... More »
Category: Drama
The Penny Reading for Lent 2013 was Frank Loesser's attractive musical Guys & Dolls, directed by Head of Drama David Kenworthy with Alex Arkwright as Musical Director. Such a production requires a colossal amount of preparation from so many people across the College community and the... More »
Category: Pupil Achievements
Upper Sixth Form Art Scholar, Ebba Sahlgren (MO) was invited during the half term to show a recent artwork within Country Life magazine. The informative article, highlighting art scholarships within various independent British senior schools, featured diverse examples of Art scholars' creativity.... More »
Category: Music
The final musical event of the Lent Term was the annual Choral Society concert held as usual in Chapel, featuring two exquisite works, one by Dvorak and one by Brahms. The first work was the lesser known of the two, namely Dvorak's Te Deum, and this provided the perfect curtain raiser to Brahms'... More »