Warwick School

This painting, depicting the Jaguar team passing Warwick School en route to their first victory at Le Mans in 1951, was presented to the OWA Committee on 10 March 2008.

Commissioned by OW Peter Johnston, the painting will be used to raise funds for the proposed school/OW museum.

Details about the promotion, limited edition prints and tickets for the raffle, will be announced at the OW Summer Dinner and promoted on the website.

On 27 March 2008, Warwick School’s oldest living Old Warwickian, Leslie Harold Brown, visited the school for the first time in 80 years.

Leslie, who is now 97, was at school from 1922 to 1928. He remembers walking three miles to and from school every day for five years. He and his brother Norman were awarded scholarships - one of the questions he remembers answering in his entrance exam was ‘How do you make a steam pudding’.

Former pupils of Warwick School flew in from around the world for a Sixties Reunion on 3 May 2008. The Reunion was open to everyone who left the school during the 1960s – and the masters who taught them. Organiser Nigel Robinson, Chairman of the OWA, said old boys attended from as far a field as Japan, South Africa and Hong Kong, as well as from Malta and mainland Europe. “It was an incredible day,” said Nigel. “Many of them hadn't seen one another for 40 years or more!

Although Warwick is a boys’ school, there are occasions on which the school is greatly enhanced by the unsung group of flower ladies, made up of wives, parents, staff and friends of Warwick School, who produce magnificent displays of flowers in the Chapel, GNH and Bridge House Theatre. The Headmaster felt that this voluntary effort should be rewarded, so, Mrs. Halse organised an “Inset” day to the Simon Lycett Flower Studio in London. Simon is an old boy of the school whose love of flowers developed during his early life in Warwick where his parents still live.

Nick Hayley a Warwick School 2007 leaver has been working on a video for the new Apple iPod Touch. He produced an advert which gained world wide recognition on YouTube. In an unusual move, Apple contacted Nick and asked if they could turn his video into a new advert for the ipod. They took Nick's advert and made it broadcast ready. The finished Apple advert can be seen on their website: http://www.apple.com/ipodtouch/ads/
An article about this even appeared in the New York Times and is available below to be looked at.