School Matters 36

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UNIVERSITY OFFERS We send every good wish to all our Upper Sixth Formers taking A-level and Pre-U public examinations this summer as they strive to convert offers to places at the UK’s leading universities, as well as several prestigious institutions overseas. At a time of tremendous competition for places, we are especially pleased and proud to report that three of our pupils hold offers to study either at the University of Oxford or at the University of Cambridge. Leonie Hay and Eoin Ware, UVI plan to be Oxford bound to read History at St Peter’s and Geography at Keble, respectively. Meanwhile, Head Girl Alex Mortimer hopes to take up a place at Christ’s College, Cambridge to read Geography. We congratulate Dr Luc Martin and colleagues in the School of Humanities this year for their sterling efforts to ensure the School’s impressive Oxbridge success record is maintained once more.

Leonie Hay, UVI

Alex Mortimer, UVI

Eoin Ware, UVI

more a close match throughout and, at the halfway stage, IPS led by a narrow point. JAGS produced an impressive final round, however, meaning that with only one question to go we still trailed by one point: we had to get it correct to secure the win. As the clock ticked down, it seemed like the solution had eluded our UVI pupil but, with five seconds left, Tom raised his hand to supply the correct answer and give IPS a victory of 35 points to 34! All pupils played a big part in the win and deserve much praise. Mr Matthew Smith, Teacher of Mathematics

HANS WOYDA COMPETITION

Representing IPS against Alleyns School in the first Hans Woyda match of the year were Ayman Saleh, S8, Matthew Croston, S10, Conor Ware, S10 and Daniil Eremeev, UVI. In a close match, both teams did well and all pupils participating scored points answering some tough questions under time pressure. Alleyns took an early lead and, despite our best efforts, including a haul of 10 points in the final Race Round, we could not quite catch them and ended up losing by 34 points to 29. Nevertheless, well done to all those who participated. A special mention goes to Conor Ware who, despite only being in S10, represented IPS in the LVI category, and did not drop a single point! It was a mightily impressive individual display. Representing IPS in its second Hans Woyda match of the year against JAGS were Ayman and Matthew, once again, this time joined by Rupert Hooper, S10 and Thomas Hall, UVI. It was once

The team that beat JAGS