Year 7 charity Sleep Out
On Friday 22 May, after a busy week of exams, our Year 7 pupils took part in a Sleep Out in support of Helping Hands Community Project.
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On Friday 22 May, after a busy week of exams, our Year 7 pupils took part in a Sleep Out in support of Helping Hands Community Project.
Both the Junior (Year 7 and 8) and Intermediate (Year 9 and 10) athletics teams delivered outstanding performances as they competed at the Warwickshire round of the Track and Field Cup, held at the Diamond Jubilee track in Rugby on Tuesday 12 May.
Boys from Years 7-10 competed in the Combined Events multi-event competition at Pingles in Nuneaton on Wednesday 6 and Thursday 7 May. The competition tests all-round athletic ability, as well as physical and mental endurance, with boys completing either five events in one day, or in the case of Year 10, an eight-event octathlon over two days.
Following the successful development of Warwick Schools Foundation Ski Racing over the past few years, we recently offered some taster sessions to encourage more pupils to give skiing and ski racing a go. Using our home base of Swadlincote Snowsports Centre, sessions took place on 19 April and 10 May.
On Thursday 7 May, a group of Year 9 boys played Stratford Oaks in a Stapleford competition. Many of these boys have been playing golf at school since they were in Year 5, and this event marked an important step as they progress into representing school teams.
The Glanville Cup is the LTA National Schools U18 Boys Championship, a premier tennis competition in Great Britain for secondary school teams. As is becoming something of a tradition, our first team tennis squad were drawn against Rugby School in the first round of the competition.
Over the May bank holiday weekend, British Fencing hosted their British Youth Championships National Age Group Finals at the England Institute of Sport in Sheffield. We were proud to have several of our fencers competing at this prestigious event.
It has been another highly successful year for our Upper Sixth musicians, who have secured prestigious higher-education offers as a signature step towards careers within music.
Oli, Arthur, Freddie (Year 7), together with siblings Josh (Year 9), Henry (Year 3 at Warwick Junior School) and Georgia (Year 6 at Warwick Prep) will be taking part in a 23-mile walk in the Peak District on Sunday, 3 May to raise money for OSCAR’s Paediatric Brain Tumour Charity.
Huge congratulations to all the Law offer holders from Warwick School. Pupils have achieved outstanding success, securing offers from a range of prestigious universities such as Bristol, Manchester, Warwick, Leeds, Sheffield, Nottingham, Birmingham, Exeter, Lancaster and Cardiff. One pupil also received an offer for a degree apprenticeship with Shoosmiths, a well-renowned national law firm. This is a testament to the hard work and dedication the boys have put into their applications and into their studies.
On Wednesday 28 January, 22 students from the Lower and Upper Sixth sat the Royal Society of Chemistry’s Olympiad paper, a highly challenging 2-hour paper on material well beyond the A Level syllabus.
Last week, our music department was proud to take two outstanding student-led ensembles into local primary schools, delivering lively and inspiring musical assemblies that showcased both talent and leadership.