College News
Athletics • Christopher Annous (Year 10) and Edward Olsen (Year 11) represented London in the English Schools’ Athletics Association Championships • The u15 team won the regional final at the National Schools Track and Field Cup championships Swimming and Water Polo • Julian Chan Quee Lin (Sixth Form) represented GB at the European Youth Olympics in Utrecht • Isaac Edey (Year 10) was selected for the Great Britain u15 water polo squad Rowing and Sailing • The 1st VIII competed in the Princess Elizabeth Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta • The J16 4+ raced for Great Britain against France, winning by four lengths • Jasper Freeman (Year 11) and James Redshaw (Sixth Form) won the James Prosser Trophy at the National Schools’ Sailing Championships Other Sports • The u15 basketball team won the London Independent Schools’ Cup • The fencing team won gold, silver and bronze medals at the British Youth Team Championships • Tommy Curran Jones (Sixth Form) represented Great Britain at the World Junior Fencing Championships and the u20 European Championships. Ranked first in the country at u21, he has been invited to join the Great Britain Olympic Talent programme. • Alex Kelly (ex-Sixth Form) was offered a full-time professional scholarship with Charlton Athletic Football Club • John Lee (ex-Sixth Form) won the u19 Central London Schools’ Individual Table Tennis Championship • Angus Wills (Year 10) won all three championship events at the British Alpine Junior Ski Championships Art, Drama and Music • College musicians performed in concerts at Cadogan Hall and St John’s, Smith Square, and in the College carol service in Southwark Cathedral • The College Chapel Choir sang evening Mass in Westminster Cathedral to a full congregation in October • The Chamber Orchestra and the Senior String Quartet performed at the National Music For Youth Festival • Ho Ting Chan (Year 12), Robert Miller (Sixth Form) and David Young (ex-Sixth Form) were members of the National Youth Orchestra. Ho Ting has been
appointed principal bassoon for 2014. • James Orford (Sixth Form) has been appointed Organ Scholar at Truro Cathedral for 2014-15 • Phil Manzera (formerly Targett-Adams) (60-69) adjudicated the first House rock’n’roll competition • During the year there were productions of Guys and Dolls and Amadeus , as well as Middle School productions of A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Picture of Dorian Gray • A number of pupils were involved in a production of John Godber’s Teechers at the Pleasance Theatre, Islington, and eight Alleynians were involved in the Young Pleasance production of Spring Awakening at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival CCF, Scouts & Duke of Edinburgh Award • The RAF Section won the National Air Squadron Trophy at RAF Halton in March 2013 after competing against 15 other teams that had been placed first or second in eight regional finals • The Army Section was awarded the Silver Medal at the 2013 Cadet Cambrian Patrol Competition, held at Sennybridge Camp, Wales, in April 2013. Of the 50 teams taking part, The College team was the highest placed from outside Wales in the senior section. • Zack Faja (Remove) was awarded the Best Cadet - out of 150 - on his Air Cadet Leadership course at RAFC Cranwell in July 2013, the first Dulwich CCF cadet to achieve the honour • Robert Lamb (ex-Sixth Form) and Theo Rutherford- Browne (04-11) received the Queen’s Scout Award • 13 Boys were awarded Duke of Edinburgh Gold Awards Charity • Boys raised in excess of £30,000 during the year for a variety of charitable causes including: • £5,300 for the Hollington Club for Young People (The Mission) – Middle and Upper Schools • £7,500 for Cancer Research UK and the Mark Evison Foundation – John O’Groats to Land’s End and London to Nice cycle rides • £3,000 for Kids’ Company – Junior School • £9,500 for Women for Women International – Ben Hurd (Year 12) in the Great River Race • £2,300 for NSPCC – Jacob Stewart (Year 11) in the 2013 Gherkin Challenge • Sixth Formers William Hitt, Oliver Martin and William Thomas cycled 1,000km through four countries to raise money for Help for Heroes
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