College News
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The following pages contain a summary of the academic and co-curricular achievements of Alleynians over the past year. The College website carries extensive coverage of the pupils’ activities throughout the year: www.dulwich.org.uk.
Academic Achievements, Examination Results and Leavers’ Destinations
November 2014, with a week of co-curricular activities for all boys and staff across Art, Drama, Music and Design TechnologyFederation • Frank Han was selected to represent the UK at the International Mathematical Olympiad in Cape Town • Harry Goodhew was selected for the national finals of the UK Linguistics Olympiad • Ali Neden, School Captain in 2013-14, won third prize in the prestigious inter-school Erasmus Essay Competition • Leslie Leung and Alfie Curry received gold awards at the British Physics Olympiad • Oskar Thompson’s photo frame/gallery app was selected as one of the 10 best in Wired Magazine’s app competition • Joshua Kader, Matthew Feuer and Jack Teh won places on the 2014 CERN Particle Physics School • A team of Junior School boys reached the national final of the Quiz Club Championship • More than 50 Year 11 boys signed up to take part in ‘The Challenge’, run by the National Citizen Service Debating • Will Cook and Louis Collier won the English Speaking Union’s International Schools’ Mace, both the Oxford and Cambridge Union debating competitions, represented Team England at the Old Parkland Debates in Texas, and rounded out the year with victory in the World Schools Debating Championships, held in Thailand, with Will judged to be the best individual debater • Raffy Marshall and Ronan Patrick won the UCL and Durham Union debating competitions • Together with Kenza Wilks, Raffy and Ronan also won the ESU-Ibstock World Schools Style Debating Competition, while Raffy also won the Imperial College’s Open debating competition • The Dulwich team won the International Competition for Young Debaters, with Kenza Wilks taking the prize for best individual speaker
A Level and GCSE Upper School pupils entered a total of 682 A level examinations in 2014. 89% of entries were awarded grades A*-B, with 26% receiving the top grade. The number of Year 11 GCSE entries receiving grades A* /A rose to 87%. Upper School Symposium The College is determined that learning should not be constrained by syllabuses or subject boundaries. One of the best examples of this is the Upper School Symposium day, held for the fifth time in October 2014 on the theme ‘Power’. Speakers included comedian Jo Brand, who demonstrated with frankness and humour her deeply-held beliefs about the importance of challenging prejudice, pride and power in the world around us. Political cartoonist Martin Rowson discussed a range of his satirical work, revealing the ways in which it taunts and teases the establishment, providing a caustic and irreverent challenge to power in its many guises. Poet Chris McCabe read a selection of his work, which provided a thought-provoking commentary on the power of the media and literature. Staff also led seminars, ranging from the power of gold and a session on solar power, to power narratives in the paintings of Edward Hopper, while two Upper School boys, Jakob Hedberg and Ed McNamara, led a workshop on the power of physical theatre. Destinations of Sixth Form Leavers (Class of 2014) Between them, members of the class of 2014 elected to attend 58 institutions of higher education. Thirty-three went to London, 18 to Oxbridge, 17 to Manchester, 13 to Bristol and 12 to Exeter. Twelve boys accepted offers to attend university overseas, including seven in the United States. Co-Curricular Highlights
The Union • The inaugural Dulwich Creative took place in
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